The race for Texas Democratic Party chair is being roiled by allegations that a challenger, Kim Olson, shoved the party’s top staffer in 2018. Olson denies the allegations, which her opponent, incumbent Gilberto Hinojosa, has publicly amplified.
Sign up for The BriefThe race for Texas Democratic Party chair is being roiled by allegations that a challenger, Kim Olson, shoved the party’s top staffer during a bus tour in 2018.
Olson responded by calling the allegations false and asking a separate Democratic group, Texas Democratic Women, to condemn the author of the resolution. The four people declined to comment on the record because they are still involved in politics and concerned about retaliation by Olson. Perkins declined to comment for this story, but after Hinojosa had publicly raised the allegation in December, she confirmed to The Texas Tribune at the time that Olson had shoved her.
Asked for the names of those candidates, Olson’s campaign referred to Joi Chevalier, the nominee for comptroller at the time. Chevalier has endorsed Olson’s bid for state party chair. The resolution that upended the recent SDEC meeting was authored by Kassandra Elejarza, president of the Texas Democratic Women. She submitted it at her Hidalgo County convention earlier in March, and it condemns Olson over the alleged incident and calls on her to withdraw from the race.
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