Reno Gathers Cuban Supporters (Barf Alert?)

Southwest Florida Fox Affiliate | 9/04/01 | My Favorite Headache

[My Favorite Headache]

Just heard that a group of 300 Cuban Americans are coming out in support for Janet Reno in the Cuban Community on the local Fox station on the west coast of Florida here in the Ft. Myers/Naples area. There is a HUGE Hispanic community here and the one guy they just showed was just shown saying " Yes we know all too well about her involvement with the Elian case, but she did her job and what she had to do to bring a father and son together and I believe people realize that and we are here to let her know that not every Cuban is voting in 2002 for Jeb Bush."

I will post more when I see the full report on this at 11. Supposedly they are starting or have started some Democratic Cubans For Reno 2002 campaign. The Cuban vote is not a lock after all.

[christine]

We Cuban-Americans down here have our knives out, ready to cut her up....Reno is the talk around town and we're walking around today with huge grins on our faces, waiting on '02.

excellent! now that put a smile on my face! :)

[My Favorite Headache]

Let's check the facts here...... >>>

Please do...I worked in the hotel industry on Marco Island and worked with dozens of Cubans who had large families in Naples.

[constitutiongirl]

Cuban-American bump!!!

[rep-always]

Oooops, forget that chad. I think we are doing the optical scanner thing now. So sophisticated.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Are you implying something here? There happen to be alot of Freepers from this area and a ton of voters. Bush carried this area in 2000 but just up the road Gore creamed him and so did Buddy McKay back in the 2nd Jeb run.If any corruption is going to happen it will happen with the mix that is here...in the middle of Naples and Ft.Myers there is the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor."

Yes, quite I am implying that you are mis-stating the facts.....

[Doc On The Bay]

MY GOD, SIR!

I CANNOT BELIEVE that those of you who fought so hard for "Elian" with us would EVER "give Credence" to this Reno "Creature!"

I'm SORRY if I "Spelled Your Name Wrong!"--This "Report" REALLY troubles me!!

God Bless!

Doc

[Alas Babylon!]

Um, yeah, it's called the Communist Party of the People's Republic of Cuba. Generalisimo Fidel Castro, Chairman.

[My Favorite Headache]

Let's figure something out here Floridian's. Ok Dade went Gore in 2000 so did Broward and Palm Beach. These are 3 of the biggest counties in Florida. Outside of the Cuban population we have the jewish vote which will go Reno 100% in Miami Beach for sure. All 3 counties are a lock for her again. But...what counties are a lock and ARE NOT a lock for Reno? I know the surrounding area of Tampa is Dem territory and so is the Keys. As well as a few patches on the treasure coast. What will go Bush and what will go Reno? Then figure out just how pissed the Dems are and want revenge on Jeb for 2000. Realistic figures here...

[shaggy eel]

,,, is it likely that the Cubans who vote for Rhino will mow her lawns as well?

[My Favorite Headache]

Yes, quite I am implying that you are mis-stating the facts.....>>>>

Anytime you feel free to correct me do so. I am just stating from what I worked with and what I see on a daily basis.

[wattsmag2]

Reno is working in a Cuban bath house?

[anniegetyourgun]

It's so easy to get up a busload of DEM union workers these days.

[steveegg]

If El Reno storms Florida, the next morning I'll be down there with a semi full of chainsaws to remove Florida from the American landmass.

[grammymoon]

This video, ummm, too funny

[Media2Powerful]

#15 is the best, lol

[summer]

RE your post # 45 -- I think I am with you, if what you are saying to them is this: Ft. Myers and Naples go overwhelmingly GOP in every election. Because: that's the truth.

[Media2Powerful]

You must be from NY.

[christine]

ping!

[luvzhottea]

Excerpts from:
Sun-Sentinel: News Local
Florida's Hispanic population growing more Democratic
By Mark Silva
Tallahassee Bureau

July 5, 2001

Diego Melendez left Puerto Rico seven years ago and settled in Kissimmee to secure better medical care for an ailing grandchild. Both his daughter and son found work in Orlando.

The whole family votes Democratic.

"We vote all the time," said Melendez, 73, a retiree and Army veteran of the Korean War. "The Republicans keep the poor people and the middle class down. ... The tendency of the Republicans is to help the rich people."

The face of Florida's Hispanic community -- along with its political identity -- is changing just as Democratic activists plan a campaign to register a quarter-million new voters statewide by the next election. They are hungry for devout Democrats such as Melendez.

This is the story by the numbers, from the 2000 census and Bendixen's surveys:

Hispanics have overtaken blacks as the largest ethnic minority in Florida. The census counted 2.7 million Hispanics, 16.8 percent of the state's population. Blacks accounted for 14.6 percent of all Floridians.

Florida's Hispanic population grew by 70 percent from 1990 to 2000.

The state's Puerto Rican population made a 95 percent gain in one decade, growing to 482,027, while the Mexican-American population grew by 125 percent, to 363,925. Combined, these two groups are slightly larger than the Cuban-American population of 833,120, which grew by just 24 percent.

At the polls, the Cuban-American vote accounted for 86 percent of the Hispanic vote in Florida's 1992 presidential election, when the state favored President Bush. By 1996, when Florida voted for President Clinton, the Cuban share of the Hispanic vote had slipped to 78 percent -- and Clinton was claiming more than one-third of a Cuban voting bloc that traditionally had voted solidly Republican.

Last year, Bendixen said, the Cuban vote accounted for 65 percent of Florida's Hispanic vote. With Cuban-Americans returning en masse to the GOP after the Clinton administration's eviction of young refugee Elián González, the Republican and Democratic candidates for president were held to a virtual tie.

By the next presidential election in 2004, Florida's Hispanic vote could be divided 50-50 between Cuban-Americans and others...from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and other Central and South American nations.

By Election Day 2002...Florida's Hispanic population likely will surpass 3 million. The "pool" of potential Hispanic voters next year will stand at 1.5 million, about one quarter of the voters in a statewide election.