Posted on 11/26/2001 6:23:29 AM PST by ThJ1800
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory2/1146079
Hispanic voters inching moving toward a new political era
By LORI RODRIGUEZ, Houston Chronicle, 11/25/01
In the Los Angeles mayoral election last summer, the New York contest two weeks ago and in Houston's ongoing fight for the city's top job, Latino candidates have gotten within striking distance of making history.
Former California Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa was vaulted into the L.A. runoff by fellow Mexican-American voters. Bronx President Fernando Ferrer's racially charged Democratic primary tussle with Mark Green pushed droves of Ferrer's fellow Puerto Ricans into the Republican column and sealed the election for Republican Michael Bloomberg.
And on Nov. 6 in Houston, Orlando Sanchez, a first-generation immigrant from Cuba and a Republican, drew more than 60 percent of the mainly Mexican-American and historically Democratic Latino electorate in his bid to be the city's first Hispanic mayor.
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