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AUSTIN — His voice quivering with anger and resolve, former Judge David Van OS, who ran for Texas attorney general in 2006 and chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court twice, announced during the Progressive Populist Caucus on Friday morning that he will fight Boyd Richie for the chairmanship of the Texas Democratic Party.
Van Os said in an interview after his announcement, which might have been made throughout the morning at various caucuses, that for the past eight or nine days, people across the state approached him to run because they are tired of the party leadership’s insider decision-making, limited vision and defeatist attitude. He said he decided Thursday to take on that leadership, because their handling of state party business has led to a steady decline in votes for the party. “(T)he thousands and thousands of people who have come here to this great convention, not because they want more of these minimalist goals, not because they want more of this defeatist strategy, but they come here because they believe in themselves, you come here because you believe in yourself, and because you want to carry Texas.”
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He decried Richie’s statement to the State Democratic Executive Committee that Texans should concentrate on down-ballot races “and let the presidential race take care of itself.”
“That’s not good enough, not just because it’s bad political strategy, but because it’s not enough. We are in a crisis in America. The people of America are struggling under the corporate jack boot, and the jack boot of the Constitution thieves and the robber barons and their greedy profiteers. The people need a fighting Democratic Party that will fight back for them, and not just in a few districts but for all the people in Texas in 234 counties.”
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