DALLAS LULAC COUNCIL 4496
Jesse  Diaz, President   8127 Bruton Road, Dallas, Texas 75217    
Office: (214) 318-7777  Cellular: (214) 228-6778

PRESS RELEASE

To: All Media Outlets
From: Jesse Diaz -    8127 Bruton Road, Dallas, Texas 75217
Phone:                     Office: (214) 381-7777  Cellular: (214) 228-6778
Date: March 29, 2003

Dallas LULAC Renewed Relationship with Dallas Mayor Laura Miller & 

Jesse Diaz's Personal Endorsement of Laura Miller for Mayor of the City of Dallas  

I am pleased to announce Dallas LULAC has renewed its relationship with Dallas Mayor Laura Miller. Several weeks ago several Dallas LULAC councils along with National LULAC President Hector Flores held a press conference to voice concerns over what appeared to be a strained relationship Mayor Miller had with some members of the Hispanic community of the City of Dallas. After several meetings with the Dallas LULAC leadership and Mayor Miller, I am pleased to announce with endorsement and delegation of our national LULAC (Hector Flores) president, a positive, healthy and renewed relationship with Mayor Miller.

Beginning immediately, Mayor Miller has agreed to meet on a quarterly basis with the Dallas LULAC leadership in order to better serve the needs of the Latino community of the City Dallas. Mayor Miller is to be commended for agreeing to maintain a communication line with our membership. Her willingness to give priority to Latino business, education and workforce representation issues within the city government are music to our ears.

In addition, Dallas LULAC joins with Mayor Miller in calling for a complete, independent investigation relating to the recent fake drug arrests of Hispanics by the Dallas Police Department. We urge the Dallas FBI to expedite their criminal investigation on this matter so we, the citizens of the City of Dallas may better understand not only how we got to this point in time but to pinpoint exactly where our system went awry. Furthermore, Dallas LULAC joins with Mayor Miller in her efforts to pursue with vigor and resolute to hold those individuals accountable for contributing to the gross civil rights violations of innocent and helpless individuals who were adversely affected by those illegal arrests. Finally, as a citizen and taxpayer of the City of Dallas I hereby fully endorse Mayor Laura Miller in her quest to seek re-election to continue to serve as Mayor of the City of Dallas. I agree with Mayor Miller, there is much still to accomplish and I stand ready to assist her in better serving the needs of all of the citizens of our great city.   

UNITED,  EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!              UNIDOS,  TODO SE PUEDE!