Posted on 06/04/2003 10:21:07 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
WASHINGTON (AP) - With an eye toward the nation's fast-growing Hispanic community, Capitol Hill Republicans are turning to textbooks to win their support. Led by Illinois Rep. Jerry Weller, a group of 19 House Republicans and one Senate Republican have signed up to participate in a Spanish-language program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Graduate School. It's the largest group of congressional lawmakers to participate in the language program that officials say initially began as a nonpartisan program in 1999 under the leadership of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and has had dozens of participants.
Starting Thursday, about 50 House Republican staff will also begin participating in the 10-week program of once-a-week, two-hour conversational lessons. For Weller's group's first class, attendance was not the best. Fifteen showed up for the 7 a.m. lesson in a room above the office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill, and some had to leave before the end. But the congressman, whose north-central Illinois district is 8 percent Hispanic, said the GOP is committed for the long haul. "Republicans in Congress are eager to work with the Hispanic community on President Bush's agenda, and the launch of 'Spanish on The Hill' shows we are serious about working with Spanish-speaking America," he said. Weller said they would only wait until next week before they start learning such phrases as "Vote por los Republicanos" - "Vote for Republicans."
For their first lesson, teacher Maria Luisa Carver used visual aids such as magazine covers featuring Democrats like former President Bill Clinton as she taught the Republicans to say the Spanish equivalent of "He is a Democrat." Hispanic registered voters totaled 7.5 million in the 2000 census. And they represent a key voting bloc in electorally rich states such as California, Florida, New York and Texas. But Hispanic elected officials are overwhelmingly Democrats. Weller said Republicans such as Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have shown that when they communicate effectively with Hispanics they can demonstrate they have the same values of family, work, education and opportunity and warrant their majority support.
The Mexicans in particular are very poor at assimilating into our society linguistically and culturally. When they have significant numbers working in a given sector, they control hiring in that sector and try to steer all new hires toward their own people. Politically they are ruthless. Once in control, almost always in control (the PRI was defeated by the PAN...but it may only be temporary). As a rule, Hispanics are very good at deceiving the unsuspecting as to their true intentions. At work, a secretary (Hispanic) whose sister works for a large publisher sent her an e-mail which was a VERY disparaging piece about George W. Bush singing "Soy el Rey" (I am the King.). The forwarded e-mail had the names of many Hispanics also working at the same publishing house and also several Hispanic individuals working at a very large computer company.
Since she doesn't know my political affiliation (and still doesn't) I asked her to forward the e-mail to me. She did...the link to the e-mail no longer functioned. It was gone that quickly. Any information or activity like that is very difficult to track or even spot. I was only able to get her to try and forward it because of my Spanish-speaking ability and the fact that I saw it while she was running it (It was VERY ugly and profane). And, this is happening everywhere. They hate Republicans and will not vote (in any significant numbers) for them. It doesn't matter whether they speak Spanish or not.
So many on here assume I don't know what I'm talking about. The problem is, most people on here do NOT speak Spanish with any fluency and most certainly don't understand it well enough to catch items like the above. The U.S. in general (including politicians) do not realize what is happening to them. The recent walkout by the Texas State legislature (a LOT of them Hispanics) should be a warning sign...but few really noticed. I could go on...but why? I offered to help the Republican party reach out to Hispanics with a well-planned effort to reeducate the Hispanics to the need for more conservative government. Response? Nothing. So, as I've repeated told some individuals who need to hear it: Be careful what you wish for...
Would it that others not so connected would listen to what we are saying.
The Republicans won't get the votes of the invaders until they support the purposes of the invaders. Only if they become even more like Democrats than they already are will the Republicans garner significant invader votes. And the more like the Democrats the Republicans become, the less attractive they become to true Americans.
Bi-lingual babbling is one way the Republicans can help energize a third party. More power to them.
I can picture those little captioned bubbles over their heads as they repeated that. I'd bet they were all thinking something besides 'democrat'. Visual aid, one blue dress.
Very astute observation on your part. Few listen, however. Ask her to look at my tagline...it refers to sons and daughters of Democrats who haven't changed their way of thinking.
Exactly. However, I'm through talking/typing.
The only opportunity they want is to subjugate the rest of the nation to their rule...that would be rule by a very small minority of the ethnic group in question. If you think you're talking to a fool who doesn't see the big picture, you'll have to find someone else. You can argue all day long about "equal opportunity", etc. but that already exists. If one studies in school (many Hispanics do NOT), if one saves and invests money (many Hispanics do NOT), then one will have plenty of opportunity in this country. The only opportunity I see most Hispanics grabbing for is one of monopoly control. Unfortunately, very few Americans do speak Spanish fluently enough to realize the mindset of the Hispanic. Well, I do, and your statement is an outright lie.
I know of Hispanics moving into professional positions as mentioned in my post above about those working for the publishing company AND for a large computer company. If more would study, the transition of control in the job marketplace would be MUCH further advanced than it is. I cannot, without their permission, post the e-mails for proof. However, people here who know me know I tell it like it is.
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