El Paso Young Democrats 2012 Democratic Primary Endorsements!!

El Paso Young Democrats "kicked off" the  2012 Democratic Primary with their endorsements.  The YD's are considered the corral where young leaders go through campaign boot camp and work their way through field operations and campaign war zones to get their medals of honor and honorable discharge papers needed to move on to running for office.

Getting involved and being in a YD organization will pretty much help a young Democrat test the waters of politics and determine whether they can weather the storm of the combat sport in El Paso we call local politics.  Lots of good, hard working national, state, and local Democrats have come through the ranks of the Young Democrats.  And so here are their endorsements for the 2012 Democratic Primary:

United States Representative, District 16 SILVESTRE REYES
United States Representative, District 23 PETE GALLEGO
State Board of Education, District 1 SERGIO MORA
State Representative, District 75 MARY GONZALEZ
State Representative, District 77 AARON BARRAZA
State Representative, District 78 JOE MOODY
Chief Justice, 8th Court of Appeals ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE
Justice, 8th Court of Appeals District Place 2 TOM STANTON
District Judge, 41st Judicial District DOLORES REYES
District Judge , 243rd Judicial District RICHARD CONTRERAS
District Judge, 383rd Judicial District LISA ACEVES HAYES
District Judge, 388th Judicial District LAURA STRATHMANN
District Judge, 448th Judicial District REGINA ARDITTI
Criminal District Judge, Court No.1 JOSE CASTILLO
District Attorney, 34th Judicial District JAIME ESPARZA
County Tax Assesor-Collector ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ
County Commissioner, Precinct No.1 LIZA MONTELONGO
County Commissioner, Precinct No.3 DORA OAXACA
Constable, Precinct No.1 ROBERT WHITE
Constable, Precinct No.2 JEREMIAH HAGGERTY
Constable, Precinct No.3 HECTOR BERNAL
Constable, Precinct No.4 LUIS "LOUIE" AGUILAR
County Chairman JOSEPH GLEN "BUTCH" MAYA


There are a lot of new young leaders on the ballot this time and only two incumbents who lost the El Paso Young Democrat endorsement.  The incumbents not getting the EPYD endorsement are Marisa Marquez and Victor Flores. The new and young faces in El Paso politics are part of the emerging home grown leadership. Congratulations to the El Paso Young Democrats leadership for their involvement and dedication to the El Paso Democratic Party!

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