Medrano / Pancho Medrano's Leadership
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Mr. Medrano-[?] All this is about me right? Interviewer-"Right" Mr. Medrano-"They not know who would speak about my dad like its the family, what he did cause that [?] Late on, cause he would [/bring stuff, what he experienced, that would reinforced me us more. You know what Lopez Reyes [?] do you what Corky Gonzalez is doing? Right now in Colorado, he was voted to [?] schools, he was voted to homeschooling and stuff, so they are not teaching this stuff. So, Corky will say, "What, Corky's not even doing that? [?] In Colorado, hey we're doing this, communication on the phone, we're doing this, What ya do that! And then, you know, Co-ops, do co-ops. [?] Start your own co-ops. Go to [?] file a 1C and go to the distributer, show them your card, nothing can save you the groceries cans wholesale and divide it by [?] that's what it costs it can set at a cost, buts that's an opinion. Your beating, your now technically [?] So, wer're here fighting co-ops [?] How do we know if my father traveling and bringing all this to us, all this knowledge, all this knowledge from whatever, he went, whatever he experienced, they think we[?] we never did all of that. What a sensational idea [?] We would implement that idea. Interviewer-"What made you get started on how and why would your father be involved in politics?" Mr. Medrano-Well, first of all, he turned around and when he saw, when he got to the Rock Qurrey to the LTV and unionism its solidarity for everyone. And remember we're just as inportant to the industry as they need us and we get a fair wage living accommendation, we can't afford any [?] But, that's because we're united, write a contract every three years and you'll are making in profits. We get a little bit of that profits served. You know, the're making profits [?] So, he saw in unity [?] and all of us together, you know, black, brown [?] and then at that point they saw his, now you're starting to get the president, vice president, leadership. Now, we're talking about union leadership and the UAW saw his active in leadership and he said, I'm running for [?] I wanna become a union boss, eventually, but I wanna become a union leader, a union leader and what does it take, He says, "All you gotta do is the union membership, we'll vote for you, for whatever [?] on a given Sunday, a month [?] and that's your election day. And, now he's learning about election day, election we let you hearing [?] around his own campus, that's his city, right, that's his community, so turns around and now he's started shaking hands, going, giving these around, talking to these employees, guess who [?] he sees where the power is at, its a minority, a minority. So, he gets all the African Americans and all the Hispanics and they get together, in coalition and they outnumber [?] he gets elected in office because he knew, and he kind of knew [?] but he got elected and he started his leadership from there and now he's like, "you practice that" Pancho leadership, then they finally pulled him out of the plan. So, are you now going international united auto worker, and your are gonna to be based out of Detroit and there was the Woodcocks, the Ruther brothers: Roy Ruther, Walter Ruther, all those guys, all the Ruther brothers, they knew him, they said, "Pancho you got organizing skills, now we want you to got to city to city and register people to vote at that time you had to pay to vote and here's a little, what they called, "Brown Bag" you pay for them to register to vote, "I ain't got a dollar to vote" [?] Dollar would buy me water, you know, milk, bread, I ain't going to blow one dollar for the whole year, no that's too much, I'll pay a dollar for you, we'll they pay rent. So, they register to vote, now they gotta take that dollar put it in the brown bag, take it to the county [?] so, you would take the money, take the reciept, cause he's a deputy voter registrar. So, he send him in, put the money, right, put a number in on all those people registered to vote, now you know's who's registered to vote [?] solicitative, [?] John Kennedy and all...of them had ran for governor, for president of the United States. And you're talking about H.H, Hubert Humprey all of those my dad was involved in all those things [?] all these selections [?] been involved would arrive in a given city, [?] do the demographics immediately and he found out that his [?] minority, Anglo, county judge, Anglo commissioners, mayor, anglo [?] "Where's everybody hangs around here? Joe's Bakery or Joe's [?] the neighborhood place [?] Why the leadership doesn't change? Oh, I don't know, [?] We change em [?] Hispanics, county commissioners Hispanics, mayor Hispanics, and all because he [?] organizing, I'll see you [?] told people, "I don't have an education to be a mayor." Who says you have to have an education to be a mayor. Have the will, desire to do it, will you gotta be educated to be a mayor, you can't be in college level, you don't have an education. I say, "Who says that?" You wanna see what happens and let the people vote for you, [?] people with 8th grade education [?] barely, the student educated ones sees that it can be done, I wanna be now the mayor. Now you see the [?] , the rest of what was said was non-educational leader [?] this, that, Now, I have to take you away and I got the credentials [?] and I'm a good student. I got the money, I got the education, I can replace you, so you see, you can see the history, the history of every elected official and his educational level that he was and those positions that [?], they were going to Austin for the first time in their lives. High school grads, high school grads were going to pass legislation and don't even know how to write law, use law, and don't know [?] now the're state reps...