The Tea Party group that sponsored a prime-time response last week to President Obama's State of the Union address is the latest group recognizing the power of the Latino vote.
Officials with the Tea Party Express, the nation’s largest Tea Party political action committee, have been discussing their own Latino outreach, said Sal Russo, the group’s co-founder.
“We’ve been trying to do a bus tour that would focus on communities that we don’t normally talk to,” Russo said.
Russo, who worked for Ronald Reagan when he was California governor:
“He believed in going to labor unions, going to places where you don’t normally go, so people could hear his message about cutting taxes and growing the economy,” he said.
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The plans by the Tea Party, widely viewed by many liberals as being antithetical to the interests and well-being of minorities, follows an announcement last week by House Republicans about a new, ambitious Latino outreach campaign.
On Feb 11, the House Republican Conference, which essentially represents the chamber’s GOP, launched a Spanish-language Twitter account, @gopespanol.
The account is part of a broader plan – still being hashed out – to reach out to Hispanics, and repair their image with them.
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Not all Republicans and conservatives are on board with the efforts to court Latinos, particularly when it involves relying on Spanish.
Some the most conservative Republicans in the House, for instance, see it as pandering.
In an interview with the National Journal, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said he is opposed to trying to reach out to Latinos in Spanish.
“There’s a conflicting message that comes out from the Republicans if we want to recognize the unifying power of English, and meanwhile, we send out communications in multiple languages,” said King, who has one of the most hard-line approaches to immigration. “Official business and documents needs to be in English.”
gosh, i wish the GOP, or conservatives had begun to do this before the 2000 election... i even talked about the necessity of it here... not waiting for an election year to do it, but to make it an ongoing thing...
Complete waste of time and resources.
yes, that will surely compel mexicans to vote for Republicans. In droves.
Sounds like Tea Party Amnesty
These “reaching out to Latinos” means: 1. Amnesty. 2. Amnesty and welfare. 3. Amnesty and, welfare, and unicorns
This is more pandering to special interest groups over others and ruinous for this so-called TEA Party group.
Either we are all special as taxpaying Americans or we are just another wing of the Democratic Party.
Can't have it both ways.
Incidentally, I was watching a bit of Ted Baxter aka Bill O'Reilly last night, and Ted was almost apoplectic with some Republican senator or congressman who failed to understand that Republicans should be pandering to the Hispanic community. The Pubbie congressman told Baxter er O'Reilly the same things we're talking. O'Reilly recited the lie about Hispanics not voting for Pubbies because of the immigration issue, and the Pubbie told him he was wrong. Baxter's position was: so what...pander anyway.
Maybe hand out 7 oz. bottles of Corona and little mexican flags,, OH and soccer balls.. ya might get a few takers. ;-]
Think this will work?
We do need to reach out to our Spanish speaking friends. But we shouldn’t pander, we don’t need to.
George Washington En Espanol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_BwWYkPjQ
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004787/posts
Hey, let’s balkanize the Tea Party!
Isn’t the Tea Party supposed to be about Americans fighting for America? This seems like it would only serve to dilute the message and weaken the overall cohesiveness of the group.
Not latinamericans, asianamericans, afroamericans, arabamericans, panarabamericans, LBGTamericans, or any of that other divisive nonsense.
Are they trying to be more inclusive? How does labeling people achieve this?
That’s what the left does. They apply all sorts of labels to people, especially people they don’t agree with. I’ve had it with all these labels!
New Senate Immigration Amnesty Plan Bears Union ImprintComplete thread at link in title.
NLPC ^ | April 18, 2013 | Carl HorowitzThe main feature of the 844-page bill is that it would allow millions of illegal immigrants to apply for legal residency and eventual citizenship. Significantly, the bill bears a strong union influence. And labor officials aren't bashful about it. Ana Avendano, AFL-CIO director of immigration, declared last week: "Politicians know that if they stand in the way of citizenship we will steamroller them." The bill, worked out in secret by a bipartisan group of senators known as the "Gang of Eight," amounts to getting rolled over.
Some context is necessary. The United States, more than ever, is an international resettlement destination. According to the Census Bureau, our immigrant population, naturalized and otherwise (including the illegal portion), experienced a net increase during 2000-2010 from 31.1 million to 40.0 million. By 2010, nearly 13 percent of the nation's population consisted of first-generation immigrants, the highest share in a decennial year since 1920. California registered the highest state share at 27.2 percent. These figures, it should be emphasized, don't include the roughly 400,000 "birthright citizenship" children born to illegal immigrant parents on our soil each year. During 2000-10, about 13.9 million newcomers came here legally. Mexico and Asia each accounted for more than 4 million of them, while Central America, the Caribbean, Europe and "other" each sent slightly more than one million.
Et tu, Brute? =(
What are their plans for the Asian, African-American or Caucasian-Focused bus tours? Just wondering where everyone would fit in. Apologies for anyone I've left out.