Never trust a Texan

On the day we were coming home from Tennessee was also the South Central Region of Young Dems mtg, being held in Austin, Texas. I had planned my trip way before this regional mtg and decided it was not cost effective to fly to Austin for only a few hours. I was running for the position of Regional Director, meaning I would be helping out and assisting the states in our block. This includes Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. I had asked a gentleman from Texas, David, to run as my Deputy Director (as it's tradition to have a representative from each state as the officers). La and Mo are not really active states right now but it would be easy enough to plug them in later.
So, I sent my annoucement/speech with my state president, Kathy, who was attending the mtg with some other OK folks. Kathy is running for national YDA office (like I hold right now as Vice Pres of Programs) and she needed to campaign at this meeting.
Now it gets sticky....
One of the Texas leaders is a guy named Giovanni. Up until now he has been a friend and someone I respected and have enjoyed working with him. He knew of my intent to be Regional Director and all this time I have been the only one running. Giovanni is also running for national office, but with a different group than my state prez is. This basically makes the two of them competition. Giovanni apparently felt threatened by me and by Kathy and he lied to me, brought in someone last minute to run against me, and fanagled a deal so that the last minute person would win. It's shady....very very shady. So, I lost. I mean, it's certainly not the end of the world but what I'm angry about is how underhanded and deceitful Gio was to me.
So, I don't mind sharing my opinion of Gio with other YDA folks because if he can screw me over a tiny little regional director what will he do as our representative to the Democratic National Committee? Politics.

I'm just amazed that this guy, Gio, would do this to me because I've not known him to be of ill character like this. It's sad, sad for him, sad for his team and sad for YDA.
It will be interesting to see what happens.