Mayoral candidate Manuel Medina faced an insurrection on Tuesday at a meeting of the Bexar County Democratic Party when a precinct chair called for his immediate resignation as chairman of the party.

The two-page resolution brought by Ralph Galvan did not pass, but it slapped Medina with an array of detailed complaints and allegations and caused the meeting of the party’s County Executive Committee to devolve into a shouting match that at one point involved a District 1 candidate.

“Pretty much all hell broke loose,” said Vanessa Sanchez, who attended the meeting. “What I saw from District 1 candidate Adrian Flores, he was getting up into elderly women’s faces and yelling at them because they were in disagreement with him.”

Sanchez is a supporter of District 1 candidate Robert Feria, who also was at the meeting.

“Overwhelmingly, I would say that those who were trying to pass the resolution were in the minority,” Feria said. “Most people were very supportive (of Medina) and overtly vocal, perhaps in some cases to a fault. To his credit, Mr. Medina tried on both sides to quiet people down from speaking out of turn and said we’re going to do this democratically.”

Feria added, “The democratic process is always messy, right? But … it really didn’t seem to benefit anyone to be loud and yell at the minority. It seemed intimidating and it really didn’t need to be that way.”

The resolution failed because Medina has packed the committee with loyalists, Galvan told me.

“I think they were well aware that the resolution was going to be presented because he had a lot of people in there,” said Galvan, 75. “His goon Adrian Flores tried to intimidate us.”

Flores, 53, defended his actions at the meeting, including his tense exchange with the “elderly women.”

“These old ladies are not sweet elderly ladies,” he told me. “These are political sharks.”

A residency issue first raised in this column last month was among the charges lodged against Medina in the resolution.

The document also leveled accusations of financial malfeasance.

“A series of financial transactions have been discovered which, among many other violations, forms the basis of a complaint being filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, requesting the immediate intervention of the appropriate legal authorities to investigate what appears to be an excessive amount of questionable financial transactions that inures to (Medina’s) and his orbit of friends and employees benefit,” it stated.

The resolution accused Medina of exploiting the party’s resources to run for office and to benefit “his personal business as a political consultant.” And it vented about Medina’s embrace of far-right conservatives in his quest for the nonpartisan mayor’s seat.

“WHEREAS, Medina has usurped the BCDP headquarters,” the document stated, “including the entire inventory of furniture, fixtures, equipment, and all corresponding assets and property of the Party for his mayoral campaign (without Party approval) and has entered into contractual agreements with high-level and well-known Republican and Tea Party activists, such as Carlton Soules, George Rodriguez and Jeff Judson, in furtherance of his primary goal of becoming the City of San Antonio’s Mayor …”

Medina has leased the party’s headquarters for use as his mayoral campaign office. At the same time, he has “donated” a few rooms in the building to the party.

Galvan said the failed resolution was “just the first salvo” in his fight against the party’s ambitious chairman.

Medina responded to a request for comment on Wednesday with a text message that celebrated the support of “Republican Party conservatives, Tea Party leaders and Democratic Party liberals” and borrowed an infamous slogan of President Donald Trump’s campaign.

“Last night, I was formally endorsed by the Bexar County Democratic Party,” Medina said. “DRAIN THE LOCAL SWAMP!”