Sergio Mora Officially Resigns From Democratic Chair
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KGNS News
Story Created:
Mar 12, 2012 at 9:31 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Mar 13, 2012
The Ambassador Event Center was packed with people tonight.
Candidates running for office along with their supporters filled the center to hope their candidate got a top-spot on the democratic ballet.
Sergio Mora\Ex-Democratic Chair: "All the candidates want to be first because there’s statistics that show people, if they don't know the candidates, they'll vote for the first one...or last one or the ballet. So it became sort of a tradition."
Each candidate chose a playing card to determine their order on the ballet; some decided to have their children pick their card for them.
But some surprising news came before the drawing began, when Democratic Chair Sergio Mora officially resigned from his position to run for the state board of education.
"It's pretty much an open seat for democrats. I've always been very passionate about education and educational issues, I think there’s a lot of work to be done here."
Mora said the incumbent did not seek re-election and he made his decision to run about two months ago.
He waited to make it official on Friday, which was the deadline to file to run for an office.
The Executive Committee of the Democratic Party, which is made up of precinct chairs, voted for Sylvia Palumbo to serve as the interim democratic chair until primaries are over, which is when the new candidate will immediately take office.
Elections will be held May 29th, early voting will be from May 14th until the 25th.
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President O said on Friday, Mar 16 at 4:08 PM
It is what has been said over and over the folks @ 8 are not professionals, Probably need to have the news outsourced, just throw it together like always and send it to a clearing house to get it cleaned up.
84711825Get local in said on Wednesday, Mar 14 at 7:15 AM
We should rally to halp Mora win a seat on the SBOE. A local voice is needed at the state level to hopefully be part of the solution to education ailments.
84135496LOL said on Tuesday, Mar 13 at 11:05 AM
WOW is right! although we all misspell at one time or another, I have to admit its hilarious when Pro8news does it!
84056196WOW said on Tuesday, Mar 13 at 10:24 AM
and I'm sure you have never misspelled .... oh Holy one!
84051855BALLOT! said on Tuesday, Mar 13 at 9:53 AM
Seriously, hire someone who can spell to write these things. This is embarrasing. It is spelled Ballot, not Ballet. The candidates are prancing around in tu-tus now?
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