David Medina: We Wanted Facts And Got A Fairytale.

OK, so I've been following an article in the Express News mentioned in a prior entry to this one.  I asked for some simple facts on David Medina and I get the following... 

PART 1: TP you are getting your bloggers mixed up, that was Smile 5. (ok my mistake)   Putting your college education on hold so that you can do public service does not equal a college drop out. Ms. Galvan waited until she aged to 78 before she decided to serve, not serve District 5 but serve herself. TP you have a lot to learn about politics and about LIFE IN DISTRICT 5 but you will learn, quickly I hope. (Not if I have to depend on Medina supporters for information)  You want SPECIFICS AND DETAILS: (oh boy finally) Then let's picture (a story, you're giving me a story)  this you are about to start your day in this forgotten district. You wake up to make a pot of coffee, you want to go outside and enjoy your first cup to appreciate the morning, the birds, the breeze, talk to neighbors but you stay inside because of the chaos that goes on daily. CRIME is so high that you must close all windows and endure the heat of summer. You want to call your councilperson to discuss the chaos, then you realize that she did not address the HIGH CRIME RATE until after a year of taking office. So you go on with your day, you try. You walk outside but YOU WANT TO FEEL SAFE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, you want to ask the police department if they can patrol your street more often then you realize that there is a lack of police protection because the councilperson can't fit enough monies into the city budget for this forgotten district, she gets railroaded at city hall, a lot. You then remember that the current councilperson did a proclamation to a well known gang. (she was forgiven by SAPOA why can't you)  You try to forget the chaos so you look around and are thankful that you have a yard to mow, a house to live in, then you learn that your neighbor will lose his home because he can't pay the mortgage, he lost his job. You tell him everything will be okay and he reminds you that gas prices are so high that he can't look for work where the jobs are.

PART 2: Then it hits you, he is going to be homeless and there HAS BEEN NO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT in District 5 under the current leadership, so that he can find work nearby. You try to think of something happy and you hear children. They are going to school. You wonder how the children are able to cross the busy intersection at Zarzamora and Ceralvo. You desperately want to help these children, so you call the councilperson but you are told yet again that THERE'S NO FUNDING. But then you see that the mother's and children make do considering the dangers they face when they walk to school. They know that because it is the WEST SIDE no one will take notice or care. BAM!!! POP! POP! POP! You hear gunshots. You look towards the direction of the sound and you hear a woman screaming "HELP MY BABY, HELP ME, SOMEBODY PLEASE! OH GOD PLEASE!!!" Her baby was mistakenly shot. Someone, who knows, finally had the courage to call 911. You see emergency support from the city arrive and you wonder what took so long and you remember that you live in a forgotten district. (Crime is everywhere, how is it a coucil person responsible for a fool with a gun.  Place the blame where it belongs, in the courts that give these thugs a slap on the hand.  Police arrest them, the courts decide their fate.)  You go inside your home and try to collect your thoughts. Your mind is on the baby and how the family will pay for the funeral. (mmm ever hear of insurance)  You know by now that any phone calls made to the current councilperson will go unanswered. How can anyone live here, you wonder, how do the people of this chaotic forgotten district survive? Someone knocks on your door and you scream thru it to ask who it is.

PART 3: It is a neighbor asking if you have any items you no longer use to give to the family who just lost everything in a fire or have any spare change to give to the family who will be homeless so they may stay at a motel or to give it to the family who lost the baby so they can bury her with dignity and respect. People start to emerge from throughout the neighborhood and it doesn't stop. You see something that many districts don't enjoy. You see neighbors looking out for each other. They hold fund raisers to help families who might become homeless, who experienced a fire, who lost their job. They even open their homes and invite families who feel the pain of poverty, to come in and take a break from the chaos, the bleeding. They wipe away their neighbors tears and stand by them, with them. They don't forget each other, they hold each others hands and know that together they will make do without the councilperson. (Such help is a personal choice not a requirement from anyone) You see the true human nature that happens when people have very little, who have nothing but they still hold on to hope, they have a good heart, they are good people. They have hope in each other and they hold on to it, tightly, together. They don't give up they continue to put one foot in front of other despite the chaos they endure daily and the "JUST GO AWAY" chant they have grown accustomed to with the current councilperson.

PART 4: So they do the work that the councilperson should be doing and they go door to door and ask neighborhood leaders what they can do to give residents of District 5 the QUALITY OF LIFE that residents in other districts enjoy (they enjoy them because they pay more taxes and take pride in their homes) under the leadership of their respective councilpersons. You see that there's someone that keeps knocking on doors and has done so for the longest time asking what he can do to stop the bleeding. He looks familiar you think to yourself and you remember that this 'kid' and his family has been involved in REACHING OUT TO THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT 5. Because like you they too see the good in people of this district. That kid is David Medina. We need a hands on councilman who isn't afraid to go into the trenches and walk the streets of this forgotten place. We need Mr. Medina, someone who will go up against the GOOD OLD BOYS, who will actually talk to you and hears you out, and listens to your suggestions and comments on solutions and doesn't forget about you and is doing so now. David Medina is the hope we've been waiting for and the change we need to stop the bleeding chaos. We need David Medina to take office.

* No really, I read alot of "I wanna do this and I wanna do that" but nothing actually gets done by this fictional person that cares so much for their community in this story other than alot of help your fellow neighbor.  Last time I checked that choice was not a mandatory act of any city council person or anyone period.  You know, it's chaotic in Dist. 5 because no one speaks up.  Crime for instance, if this person wants more police visable in the community you call the police department not a city council person. You call every day and ask for a patrol by or meet with SAAFE officers in you area. Take the initiative instead of depending on someone else to do something.  Some people of Dist. 5 have to get out of that "hear nothing, saw nothing and do nothing mindset.  Nice story, but it still says nothing of David Medina and what he can bring to District 5 other than empathy.  More reason to deliver my followers to Galvan.  Good try.*

tags: david median  lourdes galvan  city of san antonio  san antonio politics  district 5  westside san antonio  

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