Democratic Party U.S. Senate Candidate Dr. David Alameel visited Maverick County
By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc.
Democratic Party U.S. Senate candidate, Dr. David Alameel, visited Eagle Pass and Maverick County, Texas on Wednesday, August 20, 2014, speaking to Democratic Party supporters at a campaign rally luncheon at a local restaurant.
During his visit, Dr. Alameel met with local public and business leaders to discuss the salient issues affecting the State of Texas, United States, and the U.S.-Mexico border. Over 50 persons attended the political luncheon, greeted and met Dr. Alameel, and learned about his reasons for running for the U.S. Senate and how he would represent Texas in Washington, D.C..
Dr. Alameel eloquently spoke about maintaining America strong and the American Dream alive for current and future immigrants. An immigrant himself from a Christian Lebanese family, Dr. Alameel worked his way through jobs, served in the United States military (U.S. Army), and returned to obtain his Doctor of Dentistry degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center. He opened his dental practice in Dallas and quickly expanded dental clinics throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex providing affordable and quality dental care to all. He subsequently sold his dental clinics and now works in investments and financial markets.
Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo welcomed and introduced Dr. Alameel to the attentive audience. “ I thank all of you for being here…. It’s an honor to have you here today because we are all members of our party and when it comes to November we all stick together, regardless of our differences, we always come out. We all believe in Dr. Alameel as he is running a campaign about all of us,” said Judge Saucedo.
Dr. David Alameel thanked everyone for attending and taking an interest in making a difference in our local community, state, and nation. “I’m greatly honored by your presence today. I am committed, and I believe in South Texas because we have so much potential. I am really de-hardened that we have whole communities that are neglected by Austin and Washington, D.C. whose job it is to take care of all its citizens. It is very important to me to see the quality of life of the average working family improve. In my life anyone who starts working in the fields picking strawberries and ends up with a huge very successful business, you have to go through every step of the ladder. My life wouldn’t be what it is today if my country did not offer me the education I needed to get out of the misery of poverty. If we do not have a great economy to give us the business opportunity, we still won’t make it. I firmly believe that in every community you need a strong economy and education as well,” said Dr. Alameel.
“I look around, and ask what ever happened to the American Dream? Our country used to be the preeminent country in the world. Whatever happened to our country? How could we lose all of that opportunity? How did we become a second class manufacturing and education base? We have the biggest military in the world and we have no problem spending hundreds of billions dollars on our military. We have no problem spending millions of dollars to build schools in Afghanistan and we have no problem giving out billions of dollars to other countries, and we have no problem every year giving billions of dollars free of charge and tax free to Wall Street Corporations. But we don’t have any money to invest in our children. But we don’t have any money to give to our senior citizens to allow for them to retire with dignity? We have trillions of dollars to give away, but we don’t care how much suffering and how much poverty and hopelessness exists in our communities. I cannot enjoy my American Dream when I see things so different in our country than where it was when we were at the forefront of progress throughout the world,” said Dr. Alameel.
“ If we want to get back on our feet and we want every child in our country to have the opportunities that I have had from my country, we have to fight the Republican Party,” added Dr. Alameel.
Dr. Alameel stated that if we as a nation can better our education mastery and bring back those outsourced jobs from abroad, it will lead to a better economy that will create opportunity and help the future of this nation including social security, health care and other vital parts of our society that makes a nation move progress, and not regress.
“I am a patriot and I know you love our country as much as I do and I think It’s time that we move forward as a country,” said Dr. Alameel.
Eagle Pass Independent School District Board of Trustees President Ignacio “Nacho” Saucedo also welcomed Dr. Alameel with open arms to our community, which strongly believes in his vision for a better America.
Dr. Alameel believes key issues concerning the U.S.-Mexico Border are opening educational opportunities to all U.S. children, greater investments and economic development opportunities, increased trade between U.S. and Mexico, joint oil and gas investments and exploration, enhanced border security, and expand airports on the U.S.-Mexico border to accommodate the growth of U.S.-Mexico trade. “The U.S.-Mexico border has so much potential,” said Dr. Alameel.
“The challenges that both countries are facing due to the violence stemming from the drug cartels is also of great importance to the communities along the border. I believe in the American dream for everyone and not just a privileged few. That chance and dream comes with first class education opportunities to all children. Another matter of great importance to our country is the rebuilding of our manufacturing base and industrial economy with good paying jobs and benefits in Texas, and not in China. I think we need to clean up Washington and make it work for the people of the United States and not for big corporations in Wall Street,” said Dr. Alameel.
“I want the communities to know that I hold [Senator] John Cornyn as one of the leaders of the corrupt Washington insiders responsible for the outsourcing of jobs and giving our wealth to Wall Street. We are going to invite him to take his Wall Street bosses and move to China and leave us alone to rebuild our own economy for the benefit of the people of the United States of America,” said Dr. Alameel.
According to Dr. Alameel, he supports education, a strong military, investing in America’s schools, roads, bridges, manufacturing, technology, businesses, health care system, and taxing American corporations and Wall Street to pay their fair share of taxes instead of the middle class and working Americans.
Dr. Alameel also stated that he supports the Social Security System and Medicare so that Americans can retire gracefully, with dignity, and a reliable health care system.
Eagle Pass Mayor Ramsey English Cantu also welcomed and stated “We can do that as a group and as Democrats to assure that we elect good people to the U.S. Senate.”
Among the local public officials and business leaders attending the Dr. David Alameel political luncheon were Maverick County Treasurer and Maverick County Hospital District Board of Director Rito J. Valdez, III, Maverick County Commissioner Roberto Ruiz, Maverick County Gerardo “Jerry” Morales, Maverick County Commissioner Candidate Rosy Cantu, Maverick County Tax-Assessor Collector Isamari Sanchez Villarreal, Maverick County Human Resources Director Jesus Sanchez, Maverick County Chief Deputy Rick Fuentes, Maverick County Justice of the Peace Candidate David Castaneda, Maverick County District Clerk Candidate Leopoldo “Polo” Vielma, Maverick County Detention Center Supervisor Mario Rodriguez, Maverick County Democratic Party Secretary Juanita V. Martinez, Maverick County Democratic Party Community Organizer Luis A. Ruiz, Mall de las Aguilas Marketing Director Paco Flores, Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo, EPISD Board of Trustees President Ignacio “Nacho” Saucedo, Eagle Pass Mayor Ramsey English Cantu and many others.
