LULAC Protests a Legitimate Investigation

Leaders of the leftist Hispanic organization League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in San Antonio are protesting loudly because Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Election Integrity Unit (EIU) is investigating allegations of election fraud and vote harvesting in three south Texas counties. LULAC (typical of liberal minority groups) claims voter suppression and intimidation and refuses to cooperate with the investigation.

However, election fraud and voter harvesting have a long tradition in the Mexican American communities in South Texas. There was the infamous “Box 13” political scandal in 1948 in Jim Wells County regarding the U.S. Senate Democratic primary election involving Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson. Six days after polls had closed, 202 additional votes were magically added to Precinct (Poll Box) 13, 200 for Johnson and two for Stevenson, which resulted in a narrow victory for LBJ and his eventual path to the presidency.

In January 2021, San Antonio Democrat community operative Raquel Rodriguez was arrested in connection to alleged election fraud and illegal voting. Rodriguez was filmed in a Project Veritas video ahead of the 2020 elections admitting to being paid for vote harvesting.

Using the same argument as with illegal alien crime, Democrats and liberals say that election fraud and vote harvesting are not that widespread. Others say that community operatives are assisting poor and disabled people to vote who would otherwise be disenfranchised. But are those proper reasons to excuse, tolerate, or ignore election fraud and voter harvesting?

EIU authorities seized the cellphone of a Democratic candidate for the Texas House. They searched the home of a legislative aide to investigate allegations that a longtime Frio County political operator had illegally harvested votes for multiple local races in recent years. An affidavit claims Manuel Medina, a former chair of the Bexar County Democratic Party, and the chief of staff to state Rep. Liz Campos, D-San Antonio, were recorded discussing a scheme to collect votes for Castellano with the Frio County operator.

Yet LULAC is screaming that the raids are a “disgraceful and outrageous” effort to intimidate Latino voters. They have run to the politicized Biden Justice Department for assistance and to defend them. LULAC wants TX A.G. Paxton investigated for doing his job.

LULAC National President Roman Palomares said that Paxton is using his office to “harass and intimidate Latino nonprofit organizations, Latino leaders and LULAC members” and to “suppress the Latino vote” and using his investigation “as a veil for voter intimidation.”

However, LULAC and its leaders are hypocrites. When LULAC holds its conventions to elect officers, it does so in a very controlled manner, verifying the LULAC delegates who vote. Why not do the same for public elections?

Furthermore, with the number of illegal aliens that poured across the border, there has been an impact on American institutions, including elections and voting. Only eligible citizens should vote.

The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), the conservative pro-border security legal group in Washington, D. C., has filed a brief in the District of Columbia. IRLI also supports an Arizona state law requiring state election officials to verify the U.S. citizenship of those applying to vote in federal elections in the state.

Democrats are upset also because Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on Monday, Aug. 26, that over 1 million people have been removed from the state’s voter rolls as part of an ongoing effort to cut out ineligible people. The removal of 1.1 million people from the voter rolls, including those who have moved out of state, are deceased or aren’t American citizens, happened since the signing of Senate Bill 1 (S.B. 1) into law in September 2021. Unethical political operatives depend on poorly maintained voter rolls to influence elections.

Where there is smoke, there is fire, and there has always been a lot of smoke in certain precincts in South Texas. It is time to investigate the allegations and ensure that voting is done correctly and elections are fair.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, “I think LULAC doth protest too much.” Are they hiding something?

In a critical election like 2024, when political and economic freedom and the defense of the Republic are at stake, elections matter and have consequences.