FILE 2007/The Associated Press
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte expects to touch on immigration and the economy in her speech tonight.
Van de Putte will also serve as one of three co-chairs at the Democratic National Convention in Denver,
Posted on 01/28/2008 5:21:09 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Van de Putte picked to give Democrats' Spanish response to Bush speech
AUSTIN – Sen. Leticia Van de Putte has never been one to shy away from a fight, whether leading fellow Democrats on a 45-day walkout to New Mexico in 2003 or standing alone last year in support of a controversial plan to vaccinate young girls against a sexually transmitted virus.
Her skills as a lawmaker in a Texas Legislature dominated by the opposing party propelled her to the presidency of the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures – the first Texan and first Hispanic in that post.
And now the San Antonio Democrat, a pharmacist and mother of six, is ready to step onto a national stage to contrast her party's views with those of the nation's best-known Texan and Republican, President Bush.
She will deliver the Spanish Democratic response to the president's State of the Union speech tonight; Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will give the English one.
Ms. Van de Putte was selected for the role by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
"It's a big honor, and I was delighted when Speaker Pelosi called," Ms. Van de Putte said. "I have been asked to do this with a Latino point of view, knowing that Latinos in this country share all Americans' anxiety about the direction of our nation."
Ms. Van de Putte, 53, who worked with Mr. Bush in the 1990s when he was governor of Texas and she was in the House said that while she has been disappointed with the Bush presidency, she has no plans to attack Mr. Bush in her national address.
"We need to be thinking about the future, not the past," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Van de Putte will also serve as one of three co-chairs at the Democratic National Convention in Denver,
Looks like she could do a fine job in Pig Latin too.
Will she stand on the South side of the border when she delivers her version?
I hope she has ample security.
How do you say f.u. in spanish?
This is nothing more than a symbolic F You to anti-illegals Americans. Like non-English speaking people are going to watch a State of the Union speech. Right.
Amnestia.
Spanish IS the state of the union now, and Mexifornia is the state of the union, and so is criminal, lawless, illegal ALIEN crime
the STATE that this union is in, so when you say she is going to give the Spanish State of The Union, it’s not necessary, it’s here, the state...we are in a state.
None of them know how to actually say “Bush”.
I understand Al Zawahri is going to give the democrats Pushtun response...
Quite a resume.
¡Vete a la mierda!
What? No black State of the Union response speech?
No Islamic response speech?
Pelosi and Reid should be roundly criticised for assisting in the creation of the separation of Americans, a la Canada with the French and English cultural groups.
This is really shameful. If you are an American, you should be able to ubderstand the speech in English, or desire to do so.
Looks like she is well fed off the taxpayer contributed salary. Maybe we should ban McDonald’s along with smoking. Better for universal health care.
Danke!
(urbandictionary.com)
1. putte
used as slut in french slang but origanally meaning prostitute in french.
Ehh Putte! tu m’insulte encore 1 foix et je frap!
( hey b***h, you insult me one more time and i’ll slap you)
2. putte
1. One who is run over by his teammates
2. A poodle
ROFL you just got putted
“Looks like she could do a fine job in Pig Latin too.
Eryfa unnyfa
What, couldn’t find a U.S. Senator for this? Had to get a state senator?
I live in Los Angeles. My mother was Latina and I’ve inherited her olive skin and long dark brown hair. Whenever I go into a Hispanic-owned business, I’ll almost always get spoken to in Spanish. I respond in English. They always understand at least enough English to understand what I want. I don’t think even they would need a Spanish response to the State of the Union.
nobody likes congress
I swear, you get a barker and you could charge 2 bits to see this freak show. Glad to see Pelosi and Reid bring some dignity to the Central Government. I now demand a Dutch version of the State of the Union to be delivered prior to the Sanglish response, and then a Gealic response to the respone to be simulcast in Bantu and Urdu.
Excellent tag line!
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