Double Wow!!! He is now a Kossack!!!!
Woo!
His diary here!!!!
Go welcome him!!
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Wow just saw this on the Huffington post! I think this falls into the better Democrats category.
Jose Hernandez throws his hand in the ring for congress. Pieces of his announcement below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The son of migrant-farm workers, I was able to rise from the fields of California and touch the sky on the Space Shuttle Discovery as an Astronaut, a lifelong goal I was able to achieve thanks to the promise of the American Dream. Now retired, I feel it is my obligation to help others achieve the American Dream just like I did.
more clip and pastings below.
Like George Washing ton Carver, he started from humble beginnings and wound up in space.
The son of migrant-farm workers, I was able to rise from the fields of California and touch the sky on the Space Shuttle Discovery as an Astronaut, a lifelong goal I was able to achieve thanks to the promise of the American Dream. Now retired, I feel it is my obligation to help others achieve the American Dream just like I did.
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Amazing, I used to teach ones as these, They would arrive late in the school year and leave before school was out. But people need to dream or they go crazy. This boy had dreams, dreams of math and science. The belief that if you persevere, you will succeed in the end. This is what we Hispanics are known for, if anything.
When I was a boy, my family and I would make the journey from La Piedad de Cavadas in the central Mexican state of Michoacan to California every spring. We would work our way northward with the crops until November, when the harvest was over, then it was back to Mexico until the next March. It was never easy, but our parents insisted that my siblings and I always attend school.
Eventually, with hard work and encouragement from my parents and teachers, I found my way into a government program known as Upward Bound, a Federal Trio program that prepares underprivileged kids for college. While in college, I was involved in the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program, an academic preparation program that provides support to students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds so they can attain four-year degrees in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) fields.
Persistence and hard work pay off for him and for me as well. We always get up again no matter what.
In fact, I applied for 11 years to the astronaut program and 11 times I was not accepted.
But I had learned some lessons in the hot and dusty fields of California: never quit on your dream. Never.
On my 12th attempt, I was accepted into the astronaut program and, after more work and training, I earned a spot on the Space Shuttle Discovery STS 128 in August of 2009. My dream of flying into space had been realized.
And the final zinger that finally clenched the deal for me.
The American dream is under attack.
But these days all we hear from Washington is how important it is to cut these programs so we can lower taxes for the wealthiest one percent. That's the kind of unacceptable mentality that exists among our elected leaders and it's just one of the many ways the American Dream is under attack. It's time we do something about that.
I will.
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I didn't write much but wanted to bring the man to your eyeballs. Let's help him out.
I am in Texas, but I am with you Mr. Hernandez.
Elsa Salazar Cade
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