Bill Text: TX HCR80 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: In memory of Choco Gonzalez Meza of San Antonio.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-16 - Signed by the Governor [HCR80 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR80-Introduced.html
Bill Title: In memory of Choco Gonzalez Meza of San Antonio.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-16 - Signed by the Governor [HCR80 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR80-Introduced.html
85R10983 JCD-D | ||
By: Uresti | H.C.R. No. 80 |
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WHEREAS, The city of San Antonio and the State of Texas lost | ||
an admired public servant and political activist with the passing | ||
of Choco Gonzalez Meza on October 9, 2016, at the age of 64; and | ||
WHEREAS, The daughter of Alfonso and Josefa Gonzalez, the | ||
former Choco Gonzalez was born in 1952 in Zaragoza, Coahuila, | ||
Mexico, and grew up in Eagle Pass; she settled in her adopted | ||
hometown of San Antonio in 1971, when she enrolled at St. Mary's | ||
University; and | ||
WHEREAS, It was while in college that Ms. Meza first became | ||
involved in public policy issues; as a research assistant, she | ||
helped draft the 10-1 single member district plan for council | ||
representation that was adopted by the city in 1977, and the same | ||
year, she was recruited as research director for the Southwest | ||
Voter Registration Education Project; in 1981, she became the only | ||
Hispanic YWCA executive director in the country, and she went on to | ||
serve as executive director of the Rockefeller Foundation Project's | ||
Partnership for Hope beginning in 1988; four years later, she | ||
relocated to the nation's capital and put her skills to work in the | ||
federal government, serving as deputy assistant secretary for | ||
intergovernmental relations and White House liaison for the | ||
Department of Housing and Urban Development; and | ||
WHEREAS, After returning to Texas in 1996, Ms. Meza became | ||
senior vice president of the San Antonio Housing Authority, and she | ||
later held the office of president for the nonprofit organization | ||
American Sunrise, which provides support for at-risk youth and | ||
families in San Antonio; she found success in her personal business | ||
ventures as well, working as a real estate agent and operating her | ||
own company, CGM Consultants; and | ||
WHEREAS, An influential leader in the Democratic Party, | ||
Ms. Meza championed voting rights and equal representation causes, | ||
and she managed campaigns at the local, state, and national levels; | ||
she was chair of the Bexar County Democratic Party, a member of the | ||
State Democratic Executive Committee and the Democratic National | ||
Committee, and the lead organizer for Hillary Clinton's | ||
presidential campaign headquarters in San Antonio; and | ||
WHEREAS, Ms. Meza also cherished her roles as a wife and | ||
mother; she and her husband, Daniel Meza, shared a rewarding | ||
marriage that spanned 44 years, and she took great pride in her | ||
children, Danny Meza and Ivalis Gonzalez, and in her granddaughter, | ||
Emma Maria; and | ||
WHEREAS, Choco Gonzalez Meza devoted her life to addressing | ||
the vital issues facing our communities, and the positive changes | ||
she helped bring about will continue to resonate for many years to | ||
come; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby pay tribute to the memory of Choco Gonzalez Meza and extend | ||
sincere condolences to all who mourn her passing; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of | ||
Representatives and Senate adjourn this day, they do so in memory of | ||
Choco Gonzalez Meza. |