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Show I ITERVIE\ Cuellar Page 22 it's one of the things that has kept him liable to his follo~ers. He identifies with them so closely that he does not wear a tie and a suit. That he does not live in a twenty, thirty, forty thousand dollar horne to where he's far away from them so that all of a sudden there's a barrier between him and them, and he would become something else than what he is today. And he is very close to them. So maybe he gets paid, but it's the portrayal of that or the use of it that makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, there is a lot of individuals that I know personally who might consider themselves, I don't know how many considers them, as spokesmen for the Spanish-speaking, as leaders for the Spanish-speaking. But some peculiar thing happened to them, right? In the meantime they do have families,_ they have responsibilities to support them. They have been doing organization work voluntarily for years and years and years, so they finally say "Hey, I'm entitled to settling down," and they probably have sam~ pressures from the family to say "The hell with it, 11 you got to see it. So they accept a position within the federal government. It's amazing, but that sort of completely takes away their ability to inspire leadership amongst the com~unity, too. The guy is all of a sudden a bureaucrat, that's something different, he can't be different, you know, or he's part of the system, see. Now he's on the other side and he· |
