-----Original Message----From: Luis O Reyes [mailto:luisoreyes@aol.

com]
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 3:17 PM
To: Campaign for Fair Latino Representation
Cc: ANGELO FALCON
Subject: Mayor's meeting with Latinos on Thursday
I received text message from Luis Garden Acosta on the weekend
re my being
invited to: "The first meeting of the de Blasio Latino "Kitchen
Cabinet" is
this Thursday, August 13, at 4:30 PM at City Hall."
...
I asked if anyone representing our Campaign was being invited &
who else was
being invited.
Luis, who has been working on this for more than 3 months,
wrote:
"I gave a list of a wide range of people like Marta Moreno Vega,
Hector
Soto, Rev. Ray Rivera, Jessica San Clemente, Emilio Carillo, Eddie
Silverio,
Vanessa Ramos, etc.
...
"I tried to get a group of people who were most credible and
represented a
spectrum of politics and activism but who could be labeled as
progressive.
All Boroughs except Staten Island are represented and there is an
equal
number of men and women."
It seems like the Mayor's people want to invite people who
support the de
Blasio administration. I indicated I would defer to Javier Nieves
being
invited. Mayor's people said no; so, I declined the invitation.
I spoke to Javier on Sunday to share the info re meeting & the
names

mentioned by Luis G. I believe Luis is trying to play a positive

role. As he
wrote responding to issue of invite to CFLR leadership:
"...I think they should continue to play an outside force. I did try
for
Javier but they nixed it..."
Pa'lante, siempre, pa'lante.
Luis=
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