 Wilson here on behalf of the plaintiffs in the trial of the lawsuit against the Malacca Alcantara, the chair of the party. And based on media reports and things I've seen in the social media there's been some inaccurate statements made, factually in their country. And I have never spoken to the media, no one's called, well I have been contacted by the current. They did contact me, I gave a statement. The media has intended to ignore the issues that are really at play with this case. Now I want to clear the record. First, we did not sue the party itself. The party was not sued. The only party that was part of this case other than the clients that I represented, which were precinct chairs, the Secretary and treasurer, was Malacca Alcantara individually in his chair of the party. We did not sue the party itself. Further, when we had a hearing on this originally with the case, the Tipper restraining order itself about a month and a half ago, and put on our case, the court at that time, and I have a copy of the order here for you as well, the court at that time found that she violated state law, granted her a restraining order, restrained her to continue to violate state law, because she had improperly removed precinct chairs. That was the evidence that was presented in that hearing that was concerned, expressed by the judge from the bench. It's kind of sad to say that we have to come to court and assert our rights to be precinct chairs of the party. You shouldn't have to do that. If you're precinct chair, you're legally there, you should not be removed. You should have a chair coming after you're removed. We're all Democrats. We are not to be divided. You should be together. Create division. When we came to the court and had a hearing on Monday, she agreed to reinstate the precinct chairs that she improperly tried to remove. And then she came out after the fact and said that's a win for the party. How is that a win by the party? That is not a win. That's a loss. You're creating division. You're creating angst among all the members of the party. That is not a win. It's a loss. But actually one Monday are the precinct chairs that reinstated. Party is losing because of division that she's creating. Because you saw that the court was going to grant a temporary injunction against her. She agreed to reinstate the chair. She should not have removed the first place. Yeah, and I have I've talked to some of them, not all, but do not leave any of them. I received an apology from the chair of this party that they've been reinstated. And she apologizes for attempting to remove them, which she shouldn't have done. And I have to put her with me right now where you can read it for yourself. And it's public record is three states when I'm giving you today. That's the facts. That's the facts they are. It's not a spin that I'm trying to put on it. It's the actual facts of what happened for this case and the facts of evidence that was in this court. And I'm sorry that we have to be here. But the judge through this, but all the parties through this that are for you today, bring her into court and make her do the right thing. So thank you for coming out today to hear kind of what I believe are facts and evidence of the case. Not some spin you're trying to put on it as a win for your side, which is not how you do it. That's not the party is your side. The party moves everyone standing here for you today. Right. So thank y'all for your time. Never got put in this. Taking time to get here and have a good right. Thank you. The Democratic Party. I was taken out of three things. Chair for 2023. I am Sergio Pondrera. I'm Sergio Pondrera, so ring me back in. Okay, so we're in back again. We say 2023. Good morning. My name is Juan Rafa Hernandez. I'm the precinct chair for 2096. I already been accepted in 2096 before I got removed. And that was probably the reason I came to fight for this. There's a lot of being forced. It is sad when the precinct chairwoman of the party is not following the law. This is the law. And this is what is supposed to be. We are precinct chairs. Got a regular appointed. She cannot remove us without to process. And I'm glad we won the case. And it's time to get back to work. We got a lot to do in 2090 2020. Thank you very much for being here. Precinct chair 2090, the co chair of the bell county Democratic Party Rose Committee. What I have to tell you today, the dedication, commitment, fighting for our people is all to this county and to my community. I have sweating the streets to give people a voice. I have struggled with those who are currently struggling as I struggle with them. Party chairs seeks to try to remove me a dedicated political party who has done nothing unconditionally to this community. And I have to do the elected secretary of the bear county Democratic Party. I was reelected in June last year, 2018. And I just had some quick comments that I wanted to go over about what happened here. What's going on? And why did we end up here at the courthouse seeking justice? And it was basically a full frontal attack by the chair on members of our own party. It is a chair who ran on the platform of inclusion, but instead immediately embarked on this oppressive purge. And it was based on discriminatory factors, which have been egged on by a small and pretty vicious faction in the party. Now, today, we wanted to, as you've heard, celebrate this victory over that oppression and discrimination. And we're here to stand up and declare that we've never happened before. And it's not going to happen on our watch. It's not going to accept it. Yeah, we don't want to have to do this ever again, never again. All right, we're not for our actions in the court as a means of last resort, having exhausted all other avenues, we wouldn't have to be standing right now. And this wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the court's decision. So we are very happy with the judicial outcome, which the party chair's violations of state law has determined in the restraining order issued by Judge Harald was acknowledged and accepted by the chair in agreeing to reinstate the affected precinct chairs. I would like to congratulate that one. I do want to clarify that Judge Striker did decline to rule on whether the attempted removals of the treasurer and secretary were proper and citing a lack of jurisdiction in the court. So as such, it falls back to the rules, the Bear County Democratic Party rules. And as the rules clearly state, we remain the treasurer and secretary in full compliance with those Bear County Democratic Party continuing rules. Additionally, just to inform everybody, Judge Striker required the chair, Alcantara, to take and administer sworn oath to faithfully uphold the rules of the state and local parties and state law, which she did so solemnly swear to do under penalty of immediate reissuance of restraining order should she fail to do so. But I'd like to just close with some words of wisdom from our county commissioner Calvert, who has stated in reference to this unfortunate situation. And I quote, politics is the business of addition, not subtraction. We need to find ways to keep and grow precinct chairs, raise money, win elections and bring people together, which we intend to do. I want to thank you. I'm Richard Gonzalez. I'm a precinct chair. I'm also at the Texas Democratic Executive Committee. Senator District 19 also supported that I would say I'm a Democratic Senator District 19. When all this was happening, I got and I called Monica Conteta that we needed to get together and put our differences aside. She never responded to me. I sent her emails, nothing. Tell me Calvert, did I have a letter that he was very concerned about this issue? About a couple days ago, she put on another letter that she talked to the DA that said that everything that the commissioner had said was not true. Commissioner had to send out another letter where he called the district attorney's office to verify all the things that he had said were correct, which makes her a liar. All right. Now we have this court issue that we just resolved and I as a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the State Democratic Committee meeting next month in Austin and I'm going to ask for a resignation and the chair, you know, also to take action from the State Party. So any questions? We're here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank you very much. Let's say, what was the total number of uh three years he was reinstated? 25 to 30? What was the green score? What was the total number? Four. And there were about 30 some that were uh three. You can compare some cases depending on possible permanent action. Yeah, so there's still a whole bunch of others that didn't have the resources to go on and make up this issue. I think that I think you often know that there was a violation of the American Disability Act. There is a receipt there, but it didn't allow him to notice the reason he refused to. He has been to the court and uh he's a really enter the question. There's about three other ones that are also appalled under the American Disability Act. Do you have any questions? Any questions? What? I've got a matter I gotta attend to. Do you have any questions for me? Who is she? Monica Alcantara. What did she do? Why did she uh why'd she do it? Why'd she remove the precinct chairs? Well, I believe that well there's politics behind it but I guess she wanted to get to remove precinct chairs. I mean I've heard the the chair mentioned troublemakers uh that she tried to go in and that's not how you remove precincts here. Just sending them a letter which is what she did. I can't do that legally. There's a state law about how you remove precincts here and she didn't follow the state law. If I want to see who was removed is there a there's a list I mean. I have a right here if you want it. I do. Okay I'll give it to you. Any other questions? Is that document? I'll give it to you. Yeah, okay. Any other questions? Thank you. You can keep the ribbon. Keep it? Yeah. It's every violation. So Garrett uh we were talking earlier you mentioned that the state party rules and under the bear county party rules uh you are still going to be secretary and I assume that means you'll show up at the next meeting. Yes. Could you talk a little bit about what the state rules and what the the county rules say about the removal of the secretary? Sure. The the state party rules Texas Democratic Party rules call for the creation of the secretary at the county CEC level. It's required. That election was held last January uh June 12th and there are statutory duties laid out in the Texas Democratic Party state rules and they also state in that same section that the county CECs reserve the right to create their continuing rules as long as they are unanimously approved and then lodged officially with the Texas State Party. Our Bear County Democratic Party continuing rules have been in effect for I believe 10 years and more. I don't know the exact number and there's never been a question or an issue around this situation so this is kind of a first right now but in those rules there is not in the state party but in the in the and the two rules have to line up but there's any discrepancy between local continuing rules and state party uh that can be contested. So but we're not contesting the fact that there's a clause in the local party over removal. There's a very specific process involved and it's spelled out in the rules which I have given all press members a copy of today to reference and we haven't posted on our website 24-7 for anybody to access to that's at beardemocrats.com. Are you concerned that if you show up for the next meeting that even though those rules say what they do that she and her allies will try to shut the door in your face and if that happens what's what's your recourse? I'm aware that that is probably what's going to happen. I don't think that the doors will be shut on me we're going to have to just kind of move forward and have the the CEC dialogue about this and and and have a discussion about the rules especially now that the judge has required the chair to swear an oath to follow the Texas State Democratic Party rules as well as the local fair county democratic party continuing rules. The rules are in place for a reason so that things aren't arbitrary. I can't just walk in and say we're going to remove the chair tomorrow you know or you're going to come in and do this so we're going to so the the rules are in place for a reason it's a check and balance on the powers at the party and they've been duly voted on and and we'll have that discussion. All right thanks for your time. Okay thank you too. And I think there's a there's something about the continuing rules and they're is that correct? Yeah he was I think he shared that. Yeah he's got a copy. Yeah yeah we appreciate it you guys. Spills it out.