Posted on 09/30/2004 11:43:02 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
Census: Anglos No Longer Majority In Denver
Parties Working Hard To Attract Hispanic Voters
By Steven K. Paulson, Associated Press Writer
Sep 30, 2004 10:58 am US/Mountain DENVER (AP) An estimated 90,000 Hispanics have moved to the Front Range over the past three years, according to Census figures released Thursday, a fact that has not gone unnoticed by Republicans and Democrats.
Both parties are offering pamphlets and Internet sites in Spanish, spokesmen for Spanish radio and television stations and making sure they are represented in leadership positions. Democrats said Attorney General Ken Salazar, the first Hispanic elected to statewide office in Colorado, and his bid for the U.S. Senate has provided a boost in their outreach.
According to the new figures, Douglas County led the way with a 45 percent increase and Arapahoe County with 28 percent rise from 2000 to 2003. The Census Bureau estimated that the number of Hispanics increased by 90,498 during that period to a total 618,372.
"Those numbers are impressive," said state Republican Party chairman Ted Halaby.
Halaby said Hispanics were once thought of as bloc voters who would support Democrats, but that has changed. He said the Republican Party realized it had a lot to offer Hispanics, and those voters have responded.
"We believe our message resonates. On the issues, I think family values and defense of marriage is important. About 98 percent of Hispanics are Catholic, so pro-life is important. They are strong advocates of a free marketplace. I think Republican principles are more consistent with Hispanic attitudes than the Democrats'," Halaby said.
Halaby said Republicans also are working to attract minority voters in Denver, who have also showed impressive gains over the past three years. According to the latest figures, Denver went from a 52 percent majority white population in 2000 to 49.4 percent last year.
Halaby said Republicans are not trying to tailor their message to split voters.
"Our message is broad-based to attract all segments," Halaby said.
Esteban Flores, head of the Latino Research and Policy Center which tracks Hispanic trends, said Salazar's race for the U.S. Senate has also energized Hispanics, prompting them to get out and register.
"We are now getting more voters on the rolls than ever before. I think Hispanic voters see it as a real opportunity, a chance to be included," Flores said.
Julie DeWoody, spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party, said Salazar's campaign has been a big boost, especially for Democrats.
"Republicans are trying to appeal to Hispanic voters, but that does not hold up when Hispanic voters look at their policies," she said.
She said Hispanics have been hurt by Bush's policies on education, which failed to provide resources, and health care policies which have denied access to many Hispanics.
She said her office established a campaign headquarters in Denver's Hispanic neighborhoods, and making sure Hispanic voters get to the polls in other regions of the state that have not shared increases seen on the Front Range.
"We're definitely reaching out," she said.
Flores said attitudes have changed slowly toward Hispanic voters over the past three decades. He said political leaders in Colorado learned a hard lesson in the 1970s, when Hispanics disenchanted with their lack of involvement in the political process formed their own party. He said both major parties are now courting Hispanics, and Hispanics are becoming more involved, forming their own initiatives to get out the vote.
"That made a big difference, and the parties paid attention," Flores said.
My goodness! To think that these hispanics are not natural born Republicans. Here they are criticizing Bush for not enough welfare. These are your natural born conservatives. LOL
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Are they legal? Can they vote?
Esteban Flores, head of the Latino Research and Policy Center which tracks Hispanic trends, said Salazar's race for the U.S. Senate has also energized Hispanics, prompting them to get out and register.
Julie DeWoody, spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party, said Salazar's campaign has been a big boost, especially for Democrats.
"Republicans are trying to appeal to Hispanic voters, but that does not hold up when Hispanic voters look at their policies," she said.
I thought hispanics loved the republicans. It turns out this is not true. People who are used to getting handouts will always vote democrat.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20030829.shtml
No gratitude for that is expressed by the Hispanic "rights" industry. Many (most?) of the homes are FHA/HUD backed.
It seems to me that ILLEGALs could get spooked as the public outcry against ILLEGAL aliens grows more intense and louder -- despite all the efforts of both the Rats and the Republicans to censor public opinion and discourse.
Ms Malkin wrote, "The Denver metro area alone accounted for 20,000 to 40,000 of the FHA-approved loans for suspected illegal aliens. 'Even if a small percentage of the loans were foreclosed, HUD could be bankrupted,' the homeland security official said."
That's just Denver aparently. The feds would sooner send hundreds of thousands of citizens to re-education camps rather than take a chance on destroying the housing market. I bet.
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Big deal. People who can trace their lineage specifically to Great Britain have probably never been a majority in Denver.
Unless the writer was mistakenly referring to 'whites' as 'anglos'.
A bi-lingual bump. . .
And how many of them are legal? Not the majority.
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The "more conservative" Senate primary candidate tried Hispandering on his website and campaign literature and failed to get any traction. The eventual nominee, Pete Coors, stuck to ENGLISH language and sought American votes. That's who turned out to vote for him on election day.
Future Republican candidates would be advised to take notice.
New standard media speak for illegals. As in, they "moved to " the U.S., convientently neglecting the "apply for admission" part.
The proper response to all of these handy phrases;
Out of my way please, I am taking my family to Canada. Iceland? The Lofoten Islands? Anywhere the enchilada is unknown.
What?!? She's not only got the "gimmies" but the "gimme mine, and yours, and everybody's". Oh, oh, or maybe she's legal and has a right to whine.
..."She said Hispanics have been hurt by Bush's policies on education, which failed to provide resources, and health care policies which have denied access to many Hispanics"...
Hey Julie...
You're poor people that don't have health care?....THEY DON'T HAVE A JOB. It's not because they are Hispanic. TONTO!
GET A JOB.
HEALTHCARE FOLLOWS.
Oh, yeah...go to school, get good grades, get a scholarship. It's the same for everyone honey, you ain't special cuz you're brown. I'm still paying off my student LOAN.
WORK OR DIE. How hard is that to understand? TONTO!
There I go again. Read 4 or 5 articles. Get all pissed off. Post to one, and vent....without reading the previous replies.
From Atlanta to Alaska, it's the same thing, and growing worse.
We are now told the equivalent of 3 *major* cities of illegal aliens EVERY YEAR are pouring into our country.
Unbelievable.
And not a word of this epic invasion between the two beltway parties during the debates, or the conventions.
Friends tell me that it started about '92 with the first wave of LA refugees after the big defense downsizing. A lot of them brought their 'employees' with them; seems the addiction is just too compelling. I suspect some of their neighbors from LA who moved thinking they might get relief were not too happy to see the same gang.
I would like to report that I've had enough (where have I heard that before?). My last vestige of ownership in the skiing world is a timeshare in Utah. When I stayed there I was appalled to see not just illegals working there, but H1-B's for god's sake -- like ski areas have a hard time attracting kids to work there!
So I had my lawyer write the SOB's a letter: it says, I ain't paying the goddamn maintenance fees until you guys stop violating the law. And I called BICE on them (didn't do any good). I may be tilting at windmills, but it feels good...and the ball's in their court, 'cuz they know they be doin' wrong.
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