The DNC should have the City Manager of San Antonio - who gets paid $355,000 - speak, rather than the Mayor - who only gets paid $4,000 - for whatever ceremonial stuff he does.

But since the City Manager is a Person of No Particularly Interesting Color, albeit a woman, that would not have fit the official narrative. They needed a top-ranking hispanic politician and since the Republicans had all the hispanic governors, they had to go with a ceremonial mayor who makes $4,000 a year.

Steve Sailer writes:

The press frenzy over Julian Castro's keynote address tonight gives us an opportunity to see how everybody gets my logic when it's played forward. The media is full of stories about how Castro could become the first Hispanic President because giving this speech eight years ago was how Obama got started on the road to being the first black President.

A little more about Castro. Like Obama, he admits he's a beneficiary of affirmative action, even giving the SAT score that got him into Stanford (1210 old style, equal to about 1300 today -- the same as George W. Bush's score, by the way).

The job of mayor of San Antonio is almost wholly ceremonial. San Antonio has a city manager style of government, with a $355,000 per year city manager hired by the city council. Castro only gets paid about $4,000 per year to do whatever it is he does.

The reason Castro can afford to have his fake job is because Democratic power broker Mikal Watts, a John Edwards-style plaintiff's attorney, gave him and his identical twin brother a huge amount of money for a "referral."