Poster girl, Julian Castro's mother - Rosie Castro:
Julian, Rosie, and Joaquin Castro at a La Raza Unida Party reunion. Credit: Flickr/Jaime Puente.
Posted on 06/04/2015 4:14:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Democratic National Convention isn’t for 13 months, and Hillary Clinton isn’t the party’s nominee, but some Hispanic Democratic leaders are already pushing hard for Julián Castro to be her running mate — or at least a top contender for the job.
The former San Antonio mayor and current housing secretary was in Washington while Clinton raised money in his hometown on Wednesday, but his name is on the minds and lips of Democrats close to the Clinton camp as the presidential front-runner crosses Texas for campaign fundraisers and a Houston speech on Thursday.
The flashy trial balloon and Castro’s innate appeal have likely ensured the Mexican-American Cabinet member a place on Clinton’s vice presidential long list if she wins the nomination, Democrats close to Clinton said. But Castro hardly has any relationship with the candidate herself, and the effort has gotten a mixed reception at best.
Democrats say it’s far too early for this conversation — arguing that it’s unproductive to talk about a general election ticket when Clinton is battling three other declared Democratic candidates and the ever-present perception of inevitability.
What’s more, several Democrats warned, Castro’s backers run the risk of overplaying their strong hand.
“If I were Julián Castro I’d be worried,” said one Clinton ally with an eye on Democrats’ efforts to woo Hispanic voters. “Others who are in his corner need to dial down those effusive musings.”
Still, there’s a political logic in letting the pro-Castro drumbeat go on.
Clinton’s campaign sees Hispanic voters as crucial to her success, both in swing states like Florida and early-voting states like Nevada, where the candidate last month unveiled an immigration agenda that surprised even the Obama White House with its scope and aggressiveness.
And Castro, an engaging speaker and a fresh young face at 40, would make it somewhat harder for Republicans to paint the 67-year-old Clinton as the candidate of the past.
Former HUD secretary and San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros ratcheted up the Castro speculation with a recent appearance on Univision, the Spanish-language channel owned by close Clinton ally Haim Saban.
“What I am hearing in Washington, including from people in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, is that the first person on their lists is Julián Castro,” Cisneros, who was considered for the vice presidency in 1984, said. “He is the superior candidate considering his record, personality, demeanor and Latin heritage.”
Castro has largely played along, despite telling a Washington audience, “I’m not holding my breath” on Wednesday. He called Republican questions about Clinton’s private email address a “witch hunt” last month, and Cisneros — who said he has spoken to Bill Clinton about Castro — laughed when asked by POLITICO whether Castro wanted to be considered for the position.
“Is he a red-blooded American male?” Cisneros asked rhetorically. “I would be hard-pressed to imagine a scenario where a Latino, and particularly Julián Castro, was not on that short list. It makes so much sense.”
Cisneros is just one of several prominent Hispanic leaders who are promoting Castro. Democratic National Committee Finance Chairman Henry Muñoz told BuzzFeed in May that Castro “deserves to be on the short list,” and New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who was born in Puerto Rico, said the concerted effort from Hispanic leaders to promote Castro reminded her of the united rally around Sonia Sotomayor when she was under consideration for a Supreme Court nod.
Clinton and Castro haven’t spoken since they appeared together on a panel in Washington in April, but people close to the campaign acknowledged that it’s politically useful for the candidate to keep his name in the public conversation, long before her operation formally starts vetting prospects. That way she can implicitly emphasize to Hispanic voters that she is taking their concerns about representation seriously.
“A lot of Latino Democrats are concerned about what happens if Marco Rubio becomes the [Republican nominee], or Jeb Bush, or even if Scott Walker becomes the nominee and he chooses Rubio to be the VP,” said a Democratic strategist close to the Clinton camp, adding that many see Castro as an easy solution to the dilemma.
And while the early pro-Castro campaign is risky, it effectively ensures he will be considered seriously when it comes time for Clinton to choose a running mate, assuming she wins the nomination.
Poster girl, Julian Castro's mother - Rosie Castro:
Julian, Rosie, and Joaquin Castro at a La Raza Unida Party reunion. Credit: Flickr/Jaime Puente.
The left are getting desperate in there efforts to prop up Hillary.
Clinton to press for early voting expansion in states [Shelia Jackson-Lee hosting Houston event]
"Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for an expansion of early voting and pushing back against Republican-led efforts to restrict voting access, laying down a marker on voting rights at the start of her presidential campaign.
The Democratic presidential candidate is using a speech Thursday at historically black Texas Southern University to denounce voting restrictions in North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Wisconsin and encourage states to adopt a new national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early in-person voting, including weekend and evening voting....
"Time and again members of the 2016 Republican field have put partisan political interests above the fundamental American right to vote," said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and longtime Clinton adviser....."
These guys look like tan north Korean communists
Fidel would be more appropriate. Then people wouldn’t make jokes about their age difference.
Aren’t they saving a spot for fauxcohontas?
What id like to see is an upset, either O'Malley or Sanders winning...😊
Up until 15/20 years ago...there was only 1 day to vote. If you are to busy (watching Jerry Springer or the View) to get out and vote, you SHOULD NOT BE VOTING!!!
No, I think Squaw SpeakingBull is going to get in later this year. She is raising wampums...
That’s a done deal. The democrat party will never again nominate a white male as president because the party is built on groups of whiny, offended children consumed by self-interest. White male candidates will offend each of their narrow-minded little subgroups. Martin o’malley has no chance (neither does the next JFK).
He looks like a queer dwarf.
Clinton-Castro
It has an appropriate sound to it.
The Castro twins and mamasita Rosita.
Julian Castro is Obama's hand-picked appointee to head HUD---an agency infamous for corruption and govt fraud, HUD is now known as The La Raza Bank--withdrawls only.
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BEWARE THE CASTROS (1) US Cong Joaquin Castro, (2) his identical twin brother, ex-Mayor Julian Castro--heads HUD), and, (3) their mother---Maria “Rosie” Castro--a hardline La Raza activist.
Castro warned Repubs WRT holding up immigration reform.....deferring amnesty will kibosh to the ambitious Castro family's violent, separatist plans for America. God only knows the piles of tax dollars these three have confiscated from US coffers for the blood-thirsty La Raza.
BACKSTORY Julian Castro---2012 Democrat convention keynoter---genially introduced mamsita Maria “Rosie” Castro to convention-goers. Mamasita Castro is a radical ethnocentric, anti-assimilationist....a key figure in the activities of the blood-thirsty, tax-funded “La Raza."
AMERICANS ARE ALREADY FUNDING MAMASITA CASTRO'S HATE-FILLED ORGANIZATION: In 2005 alone, $7.9 million in taxpayer funding was given to La Raza charter schools in the form of US Dept of Education grants.
LA RAZA schools stress Latino culture, the Spanish language, the re-conquest of the American Southwest, the establishment of the mythical Atzlan on US soil, and even Aztec math.
In addition to using taxpayer funds to enforce the teaching of murder and violence in US public schools, the federally-funded La Raza organization operates 100 charter schools across America.
Maybe they can dust off Henry Cisneros.
REALITY CHECK A primetime network news segment focused on an "impoverished" latino mother who paid big bucks to get her/ son coached to take the College Boards---but he was so stupid, he still couldn't pass them. So the C/B decided to "change" them so that Pedro could pass using subversive Third World hate-filled US history.
THIRD WORLD INFILTRATION College Board exams changed history answers... revisionist historians developed different answers to the question of what America’s story is about. From their perspective, at the heart of our country’s history—like the history of any other powerful nation—lies the pursuit of empire, of dominion over others. At its core, say the revisionists, America’s history is about our capacity for self-delusion, our endless attempts to justify raw power grabs with pretty fairy-tales about democracy. ....
NOTE WELL: This terrifying Third World revisionism is straight out of Third World textbooks---emphasizing the T/W effort to undermine US ntl security for the coming armed takeover.
The conniving T/W uses an ancient formula going back to Greco-Roman times---where savages, barbarians and thieves overrun a bountiful country lusting after its power and riches.
REFERENCE Some 10 years back, Texas schools started used Mexican textbooks for their backward illiterate Spanish-speaking students. Textbooks advocated the Mexican perspective including:
<><> anti-white, anti-capitalist anti-USA viewpoints;
<><> Mexican textbooks falsified US history,
<><> proselytized blood-thirsty La Raza savagery;
<><> using teaching as brainwashing;
<><> inculcating violent separatist, latino supremacy ideology.
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Subversive Texas Textbooks---distributed nationwide--- vilify conservative groups
Breitbart Texas | 09/10/2014 | Merrill Hope / FR Posted by Rusty0604
In 2006, uber-liberal "Texas Rising" stated its mission: "developing an emerging generation of social justice-minded, informed and engaged leaders is essential to the long-term health of our communities and the development of progressive public policy in Texas."
...a sneak peak at the preliminary Social Studies textbook findings TTT has found including distortions, omissions and half- truths all passing for accurate high school history..."The radical right consists of groups that sometimes gather under the flag of militant anticommunism."
"Often known as reactionaries, they denounce most forms of government regulation, including progressive taxation and restrictions and industry. Strangely enough, these radicals would not hesitate to use the government's police power to enforce the changes they desire. Examples of political groups on the radical right are the John Birch Society, the National States & Rights party, The Christian Crusade, and the Tea Party movement." (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yes they are. Seems Hillary would get the Latino vote anyway and this would not make that much difference.
Castro wouldn’t just bring the Hispanic vote. He’d also pull in the Texas liberals and many others. He’s a great speaker … apparently the left like that since that’s one of the reasons they voted for Obambi.
Hillary won’t need a running mate, she won’t last another three months.
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