Fake Councils, Fake Endorsements &

My Pledge to Reform LULAC

Dear Brothers & Sisters in LULAC,

I wish to thank you for your continued commitment to serving our community
and the League. Recent events have led to the acceleration of the departure
of many good individuals from our organization. Many of these individuals had
been doing amazing work for LULAC but felt their talents and efforts would be
better served elsewhere. It is for this reason, as well as my recently confirmed
concerns about LULAC's solvency, that I decided to run for the position of
LULAC National President.

My goals, first and foremost, are to recover and reform LULAC. As we are all
aware, our organization has become less democratic over the years and has
reached a point where we have repeatedly seen the rights of our own
members and staff violated. The rules have been bent and misinterpreted to
serve those who supported a particular candidate or promised to in the next
election. We’ve seen the formation of paper or fake councils to fraudulently
increase membership and dilute the vote of those who are doing the work of
LULAC. Our true members’ voting rights have been denied as they’ve tried to
vote for leaders who will represent the best interests of our organization, not
the interests of a few. Sadly, this has become the norm. This has become
standard practice. I will end it.
I was pleased when my opponent shared with me that it was his intention to
implement many of the same ideas I had already stated. Yet, actions speak
louder than words. This last week, his campaign publicly shared a list of his
endorsements. It included names of individuals who did not endorse his
candidacy. Our campaign has also received calls from numerous individuals
who said they felt coerced and threatened into giving their endorsement to my
opponent. If they did not immediately agree to endorse him, they were offered
enticements that included advisory positions with paid travel, and if they were
running for office, votes for their candidacy from the paper councils that are
being created. If they still did not agree to endorse my opponent, some were
threatened with retaliation. My opponent is aware of these actions and has
done nothing. These do not sound like the actions of a campaign or a
candidate committed to reforming LULAC or committed to defending the
rights of our own members much less those in our community. It sounds like
more of the same.

My campaign will never condone such behavior or endorse the creation of

paper councils. Real LULACers, those who do the work of the League should
be the ones who choose our leadership, decide our policy and chart the future
of LULAC, not votes for hire. I pledge to honor the view and opinion of every
member, as it is through honest and earnest debate that renders the best
solutions. I pledge to never create, pay for or condone the creation of paper
councils that dilute the vote of our real membership. I pledge to defend each
member’s right to vote in secret regardless of who they may have publicly
stated they intend to vote for, because that is what a civil rights organization
should do. It is what decent people do.

There are many fights that need fighting. Our community is under attack in a
way that hasn’t been seen in a generation. LULAC is needed. That is why it is
time for LULAC to become the organization it once was: a growing, credible,
revered and when necessary, feared organization by our elected officials.
This can only happen if the organization reforms itself.

I am committed to recovering and reforming LULAC; to rebuilding our national

office and returning LULAC to fiscal stability; to developing needed programs
and enhancing our advocacy efforts; to ensuring that every member
regardless of age, political view, gender, sexual orientation or gender
identification or place of origin has their views heard; and to putting in place
the strategy and systems that are needed to grow our membership to more
than 1 million in the next decade.

We can do this. LULAC is worth the fight. LULAC is worth saving. But I cannot
do it alone, so today, I humbly ask for your support.

All for One – One for All,

Darryl D. Morin

About Darryl Morin:

Darryl Morin is a candidate for the office of LULAC National President and is
also the Immediate Past National VP-Midwest Region. The League of United
Latin American Citizens is our nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic
membership-based organization.

Learn more at www.darrylmorin.org .

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The Committee to Elect Darryl Morin
www.darrylmorin.org

©2018 Committee to Elect Darryl Morin | 5012 W. Ashland Way, Franklin, WI 53132

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