"Voices" told to "Cease and Desist"

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3. Summary, w/graphics

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For anyone who might have the least interest in this -- take my word for it, our local Voces de la Frontera is and has
been for some time, a tremendous asset to Southeastern Wisconsin -- I thought it might be helpful to post a quick,
cutting to the chase summary.

The Texas non-profit that's challenging VDLF appears to be led (or fronted) by one person, Adryana Boyne:

Here she is, next to Rick Perry:



You can google her name + youtube to see some video clips. (FOX talking head, Tea Party events,
conservative 'Hispanic' spokesperson). She's a somewhat recently arrived American (naturalized mid-90's),
born and educated in Mexico:

http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2010/04/30/race-the-tea-parties-and-mr-blows-column/

"....her whole life’s work is spent trying to convince fellow Latinos that their natural home is the Republican Party, on the theory that they are fiscally and socially conservative, so playing up her identity as a Latina who doesn’t fit into the stereotypical box is an occupational necessity in addition to an honestly held conviction..."

She gives a good speech. Her first language is definitely Spanish. I kind of like her. As
a woman who's working very hard in support of her beliefs. (Supporting the Arizona
Immigration Law, supporting the most restrictive VOTER ID laws imaginable, supporting
the Constitution, at least as she imagines it was written, etc. She has both style and
passion.)

She sort of brings to mind this famous face, from history. (Although
there were no photographs around, back then, and it's never fair
to judge appearances from a painting.):



The Most Excellent, The Duchess of Alba, the artist Goya's favorite subject. (Very convenient, as well,
since The Duchess and her husband were the wealthiest couple in Spain, at the end of the 18th century. It's
very important for artists that they get paid.)

Her full name, the first 5 lines of her Wiki bio:

Doña María del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva-Álvarez de Toledo y Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba de Tormes, Grandee of Spain, (in full, Spanish: Doña María del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Álvarez de Toledo y Silva Bazán, décimo tercera duquesa de Alba de Tormes, décima primera duquesa de Huéscar, sexta duquesa de Montoro, octava condesa-duquesa de Olivares, décimo primera marquesa del Carpio, décimo tercera marquesa de Coria, novena marquesa de Eliche, décimo segunda marquesa de Villanueva del Río, sexta marquesa de Tarazona, marquesa de Flechilla y Jarandilla, décimo primera condesa de Monterrey, décimo cuarta condesa de Lerín, décimo tercera condesa de Oropesa, décimo cuarta Condestablesa de Navarra, décimo segunda condesa de Galve, décimo cuarta condesa de Osorno, de jure duquesa de Galisteo, décimo primera condesa de Ayala, novena condesa de Fuentes de Valdepero, condesa de Alcaudete, condesa de Deleitosa, señora del estado de Valdecorneja, señora de las baronías de Dicastillo, San Martín, Curton y Guissens), (10 June 1762 – 23 July 1802)

Although I'd be willing to wager 10,000 dollars Mrs. Boyne and her family are comfortably set in some suburban
Texas zip code where the median income is well north of 100,000 dollars a year, I don't think it's fair
to suggest that this person, or what she represents -- or for that matter -- what The Most Excellent,
the Duchess of Alba represented -- can even be included in a balance sheet, an accounting statement,
or a stark, black-and-white string of ciphers.

Some people just believe (or can be educated to understand) that
the best way to define yourself is to maintain certain standards.



Standards of deportment, behavior, style and appearance.

Or someone might think you were really someone else, altogether:



This NY Times blog caught a whiff of that, describing a Tea Party event where Ms. Boyne appeared, but without much sympathy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/opinion/17blow.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Bottom line: This is some kind of lawyers' thing, so I'm not qualified to say anything about the actual legal
dynamics, but it looks like the participants are this one lady down in Texas and all the people who
support her, up against our local community group, that's been in existence quite a bit longer, for
the right to use a sequence of letters of the alphabet, in certain situations.

The courts, or the lawyers behind close doors (before it gets to trial),
will sort it out. Hopefully.