The Sanchez quote is stunning.
Hispanics flex political power - Dem candidates woo growing demographic
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Sunday, September 2, 2007
Author: Jennifer Hunter, The Chicago Sun-Times
EXCERPT
Loquacious lawyer Manny Sanchez has photos of the famous scattered throughout his office, propped up against the window sill, nailed onto the wall, sitting on his bookshelf — actor John Malkovich, quarterback Joe Montana, Hillary and Bill, and, in a central spot, one of Barack Obama , with Sanchez and his wife, Pat Pulido Sanchez.
Obama is lucky to have Sanchez, 59, as one of his local Hispanic champions. Not only does Sanchez know everyone, he is a superlative fund-raiser and schmoozer, with a network nonpareil. And he has been assembling a nationwide “kitchen Cabinet” of high-profile Hispanics to advise Obama .
Sanchez sensed early that Obama was going places. “I have been a Barack Obama supporter since he first campaigned against Bobby Rush,” he explains during an interview in his office. “If you get in on the ground floor, you might be remembered.”
Sanchez says Obama is “not a traditional Democrat, a member of the Democratic elite. He is an outsider like us, and he brings the potential for a new kind of leadership.”
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“The Sanchez quote is stunning.”
Puts this quote in context ....
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CHICAGO A NEWCOMER TO THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS HAS SEEN ENOUGH TO REACH SOMECONCLUSIONS ABOUT RESTORING VOTERS’ TRUST.
Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - Saturday, August 3, 1996
Author: JOE FROLIK NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
EXCERPT
Before entering the race, Obama said, he spoke to about 30 elected officials in the district, which includes the integrated, middle class neighborhood around the University of Chicago as well as some of the city’s poorest precincts.
“Not one asked me where I stood on an issue,” he says, smiling.
“What they cared about was, `Who sent you? How much money you got?’
His answers were apparently good enough; the party backed his nomination.