Posted on 09/04/2007 10:36:38 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization is warning it may move its 2009 convention from Kansas City because of a controversial city park board member. The National Council of La Raza is already looking at other cities after the appointment of Frances Semler, an anti-illegal immigration activist, said Janet Murguia, La Raza's president.
City Councilmembers have also heard concerns from members of the NAACP, which is expected to hold its 2010 convention in Kansas City. The city hasn't heard directly from officials of the national organization. Losing two national conventions could hurt the city's image and cost the local economy about $15 million, city officials said.
"Hopefully we can work it out," said City Councilwoman Melba Curls.
Mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Semler to the Parks and Recreation Board of Commissioners in June causing a stir in the local Hispanic community. Semler is a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps and has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration and suggested a moratorium on legal immigration.
Murguia told Funkhouser in a telephone conversation last week that the conference will be held elsewhere if Semler doesn't step down.
"It is very troubling that we would be in a position to reconsider but in fact we are," Murguoa said during a trip to Kansas City.
To make the move, La Raza would have to pay the city as much as $70,000 for failing to meet its hotel-room guarantee, she said.
Murguia said she has been in discussions with leaders from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who she says have the same concerns. The six-day NAACP convention would bring more than 10,000 people with an expected economic impact of $9 million.
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Does this mean they will soon depart for Mexico.
Your confusion seems well placed. Then again, the majority of blacks don't run the NAACP, and it might be argued that blacks don't run it at all. It was founded by white Lefties and a few figurehead blacks. It has traditionally been supported mostly by whites, especially liberal Jews, and perhaps still is.
The question, as with the unions, is not what is in the interest of the rank-and-file, but what helps the brass advance their careers and portfolios.
Of course in an ideal world, Democrats would pull out of the convention if a racist organization like “La Raza” were participating.
maybe they could have the convention in Mexico City instead.
The cleanup after these conventions will cost more than $15 mil., negating any benefit.
Kansas City would be the winner if they cancel.
Cant understand why the NAACP would side with La Raza...The Race....The Mex Klux Klan. Blacks have been more adversly affected by illegal alienism than whites, per capita. I guess the NAACP is pooh poohing the Newark murders
Cry me a river, La Raza
These people are a joke. If appointing one Park Commissioner is all it takes to keep them from coming to my town, I have to write my City Councilmen with some suggested appointments.
The city probably owns the convention center (?)
Often is government owned building.
Very interesting that the NAACP is also considering pulling their convention. Hope it does. It will just undermine the NAACP’s credibility further . . .
Don’t I wish.
April 23, 2007 - IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sponsor: Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] COSPONSOR Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1]
To authorize appropriations for assistance for the National Council of La Raza and the Raza Development Fund.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section—
(1) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and
(2) $10,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.
SOURCE http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=25447
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La Raza is also finacially supported by many corporations and tax-exempt foundations (listed on the Discover the Networks.org).
Among them:
American Express Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Verizon Foundation.
NOTE WELL Between 2001 and 2003, the Ford Foundation gave La Raza about $9.83 million, with one grant alone totaling $8.05 million and has also assisted invaders to setup legal groups.
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ACTION NOW The SEC and the IRS should be notified about tax-exempt foundations in collusion with La Raza to use tax-exempt money to facilitate the violation of state and federal laws (a felony).
CONTACT THE SEC EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov
PHONE THE IRS TOLL FREE 1-800-829-0433 You may remain anonymous if you wish.
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REFERENCE
National Council of La Raza Headquarters
Raul Yzaguirre Building (Yzaguirre is Hillary's Hispanic advisor)
1126 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 785-1670
Fax (202) 776-1792
La Raza also has offces in Atlanta, Chicago, Sacramento, Los Angeles,
Long Beach, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio, Puerto Rico
Atlanta Program Office Tel. (404) 658-1711 Fax (404) 420-3233
Chicago Program Office Tel. (312) 269-9250 Fax (312) 269-9260
Long Beach-Center for Latino and Community Health Tel. (562) 985-5242 Fax (562) 985-5048
Los Angeles Program Office Tel. (213) 489-3428 Fax (213) 489-1167
New York Office Tel. (212) 260-7070 Fax (212) 260-7039
Phoenix Program Office Tel. (602) 417-1400 Fax (602) 252-0315
Puerto Rico Program Office Tel. (787) 641-0546 Fax (787) 641-0545 nclr-pr@nclr.org
Sacramento Policy Office Tel. (916) 448-9852 Fax (916) 448-9823
San Antonio Program Office Tel. (210) 212-4454 Fax (210) 212-4459
Well, she says they are, anyway, but I noticed there is no quote or citation from the NAACP confirming this.
if we made Frances Selmer head of the national park system would they pull out of the US?
La Raza can pull out of the United States, as far as I’m concerned. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt.
“Doesn’t the NAACP have an interest in seeing that our laws are enforced?”
In a word, no.
Good riddence!
“Surely the majority of blacks are not in favor of illegal immigration.”
That doesn’t stop their self-interested “leaders” from supporting illegal immigration. White politicians are in favor of it, despite the fact that the majority of white Americans don’t favor it. Our country’s supposed political leadership becomes more and more elitist, and isolated from the people whose interests it pretends to represent.
Great info! Too bad this bill will pass. The White House and Democrats want OPEN BORDERS and La Raza will help them get that.
The conservative black commentator Jesse Peterson is currently promoting a book, or something where he mentions “the phoney alliance between blacks and Hispanics being promoted by black leaders.”
Many blacks aren’t pleased to have been supplanted as the nation’s largest minority, and I don’t blame them since illegal immigration and past amnesties played a big part. More and more blacks are mentioning the downward pressure on wages caused by illegals. And, there is quite a bit of violence between black and Hispanic gangs in large cities and in prisons. Petersen might be right that this supposed alliance is just a figment of the ‘leaders’ imagination.
More blacks are beginning to take notice of these realities. Don’t know what the majority think as of now.
Dang. Well, hasta la vista.
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