Kingwood Area Democrat Egberto Willies Featured In Houston Chronicle

Today I was honored to be featured in the Houston Chronicle. I want to stress that absent the hard work of ALL our Kingwood Area Democrats our growth and visibility would not have come to fruition. We intend to continue growing and offering ALL our families, friends, acquaintances, and neighbors of whatever political stripe the opportunity to dialog and who knows, maybe even join us to move the country forward.

Visit our website (http://KingwoodAreaDemocrats.org), our blog (http://KADBlog.org), or our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/241570476849/). Look out for our ads in both the Observer and the Tribune newspapers. Given that it is our belief that real factual messaging is not reported, we have decided to pay the newspapers to print fact based information that anyone can research on their own. If you are so inclined, please donate at our website to help keep our community informed.

Kingwood Area Democrats along with other progressive groups can be found at the corner of Kingwood Drive and West Lake Houston Blvd. every Saturday between 9:00 AM and 10:30 AM. Come join us for positive and factual discourse. You can even enjoy a complimentary donut as we talk policy.

Kingwood Area Democrat Egberto Willies Featured In Houston Chronicle

Honored To Be Recipient Of One Of 6 CNN iReport Spirit Honoree Awards In Atlanta At CNN iReport Award Ceremony

June 24, 2012 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment (Edit)

While at Netroots Nation 2012 a CNN iReport producer emailed asking for a headshot for a special project. CNN iReports always have special projects many of us work on because we simply love citizen journalism. CNN has given a unique opportunity to citizen journalist the ability to give their material national and international exposure using a mutually beneficial and symbiotic relationship. I simply though they were preparing another set of ads for some new political project. Unbeknownst to me they wanted the headshot because I was one of six to be 2012 iReport Spirit Honorees.

I got home late last night from the Houston Gay Pride. On checking my email and Tweetdeck the email and tweet congratulations were on the top of the stack. I wanted to go to Atlanta for the award show but my travelling non-budget is busted and unlike some of my other trips Netroots was 100% out of pocket.

Congratulations to the other recipients, specifically Mark Ivy (k3vsDad) who challenges my political reports frequently and Matt Sky (liereport)  whose reports I always enjoy.

Of course we must give all kudos to the specific iReports that won in 6 specific categories. My friend Melissa Fazli (MelissaF) won the Commentary category. She was up against another good friend Omékongo Dibinga (omekongo). Well, one had to win.

Of course the big award went to the most prolific iReporter on the planet. My friend, Chris Morrow(ChrisMorrow) who lived in Conroe Texas but now resides in San Diego California, received the “One Community Choice Award”.

A group of us at Occupy Kingwood (Dr. Theis, Courtney Smith, Professor Davis, Professor Pogue) sent a shout out to the Award Show. CNN has been great in given one of the longest Occupy events (our Occupy Kingwood) in the country coverage inasmuch as it is completely ignored by our local media.

Honored To Be Recipient Of One Of 6 CNN iReport Spirit Honoree Awards In Atlanta At CNN iReport Award Ceremony