Posted on 11/28/2004 10:40:49 AM PST by hsmomx3
Washington, DC – The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., today welcomed President Bush’s nomination of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as Attorney General. If confirmed, Gonzales would be the first Hispanic ever to serve as Attorney General.
“We are very encouraged by the Gonzales nomination. We previously criticized the Bush Administration for not having an Hispanic in the cabinet since the departure of former HUD Secretary, now Senator-elect, Mel Martinez. We are pleased that one of the first acts since the President’s reelection both rectifies that situation and marks an historic milestone for the Latino community. Never before has an Hispanic served as head of one of the four major cabinet posts – Secretary of State, Treasury, Defense, and Attorney General,” stated Janet Murguia, NCLR Executive Director and COO.
Murguia also noted Gonzales’ ties to the Hispanic community throughout his career. “Alberto Gonzales served with distinction on the board of directors of one of NCLR’s oldest and most respected affiliates, the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA) in Houston, Texas. Moreover, during his tenure as White House Counsel, he has been one of the most accessible members of the White House staff to NCLR and other Hispanic organizations,” added Murguia.
Murguia concluded, “We acknowledge that this is the first step of a long confirmation process that requires that his record be fully examined. That being said, Gonzales is a thoughtful, reasonable public servant, a man of his word, and we have every expectation that his nomination will be very well received in the Latino community.”
There should be a photo in post #12. I hyperlinked to
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HTML for the post should confirm it.
Can try it direct.
I am an immigrant, arrived here a teenager in 1968.
Any person who is not legally in the United States is an illegal alien. Any person who takes the oath of citizenship without intending to honor and defend this flag and this country should not be a citizen.
Native or foreign born.
Having said that, I also love and respect the country of my birth, and will continue to speak out in favor of and work toward freedom for Cuba.
If you can understand my point, I am like a man who having lost his mother, was lucky enough to have found a loving adoptive mother.
I love them both with equal passion; my native country, and the country that gave me freedom.
Before you know it, the Bushes will be marrying hispanics of Mexican origin.
The next George Bush might even be hispanic! /sarcasm
There's the post, I used a Microsoft applet which allows me to see the HTML in the post.
Nothing there.
I do not expect any changes in our open borders policy, given that Bush favors such a policy. The battle over open borders is best fought with the man responsible for our open borders policy, President Bush, not the hired help.
You are lumping everyone together under one definition, and you're basing it on the actions and behavior of the lowest common denominator.
I guess all Italians are mafiosi, so don't vote for Giuliani.
Before you know it, the Bushes will be marrying hispanics of Mexican origin.
The next George Bush might even be hispanic! /sarcasm
La Raza stated goal is the disintegration of the USA, leading to the creation of Azland or reuniting the sw USA with Mexico. La Raza by it's very name is a racist organization. La Raza is ever bit as bad, if not worst then the KKK, anyone that has ever had anything to do with such an orgainization is unfit for public service ever. Orgainization like La Raza can not be comdemn loudly enough.
As long as Gonzalez doesn't either. Their suppport could actually be something like the KKK or Nazi party endorsing a candidate who did not seek their support. Just to make trouble.
Texas law requires physicians to notify parents of a minor's decision to undergo an abortion at least 48 hours prior to performing the procedure.
Parental consent is not required, just notification.
Texas law also allows a minor to seek a judicial bypass of that notification, the qualifications are rather simple:
The minor must be "mature and sufficiently well informed" to reach the decision on her own.
Jane Doe was 17, which is also the legal age of consent in Texas, and had consulted a physician about the procedure.
Alberto Gonzales crafted his decision on written Texas law, he commented that the decision troubled him personally as a parent, but the law is the law.
We need two things in this country, and Alberto Gonzales is one of them.
We need Judges who adjudicate according to the strict and self-evident letter of the law, in spite of their "feelings" about the issue, and we need legislators who write better laws than the Parental Notification Act in Texas.
Some have argued that Gonzales' judgment in Jane Doe 5 should have reflected his feelings on abortion, rather than his interpretation of the letter of the law, but I can't see how a Judge can both render judgment based on how he feels about the letter of the law, and be a strict constructionist at the same time.
Find me an organization called "La Raza".
Link me to it.
On my computer, the pic shows up in your post #86 too. Am I missing something or is it an issue with Luis' browser?
Here's the link to the official NCLR site, if what you say is true, that their stated goal is as you say, then this stated goal should be easily visible on their website.
Please point it out to me.
Here is the HTML from the post. I replaced the brackets with parentheses so that you can see it.
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(div class="a2")(a href="posts?page=12#12")12(/A) posted on (B)11/28/2004 11:12:23 AM PST(/B) by (a href="/~peytonrandolph/" title="Since 2004-09-14")peyton randolph(/a)
(Time for Bush to pack the U.S. Supremes)
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The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., today welcomed President Bush’s nomination of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as Attorney General. If confirmed, Gonzales would be the first Hispanic ever to serve as Attorney General.
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Any sources for that? I certainly hope he's not and that he's changed his thinking since his Texas Supreme Court days when he ruled on the pro-abort side. Unlike the 3 judges who ruled on the pro-life side. The KKK or La Raza endorsement means little to any candidate who gets it as long as that candidate was never part of either group.
Gonzales thought so strongly about the need to defend diversity that he went to the matt against Ted Olsen, Thomas, Scalia, and Renquist in the University of Michigan case. See here here and here. Search under key word: University of Michigan and Gonzales and all sorts of things will come up.
Perhaps Gonzales is an advocate of judicial restraint on abortion but, as the University of Michigan case shows, he supports judicial activism to mandate via the courts "diversity" rather than merit in college admissions. That is more than enough to put him beyond the pale here, IMHO./
MALDEF is very racist. If a candidate had been part of a white supremist group or any group that promoted the agenda of whites only that should be looked at. Sometimes what someone does at age 18 when in college may or may not be significant to what they believe later --- but membership in any race group can be examined --- not just for whites.
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