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Tea Party: “The Problem Is These Hispanic Legislators”

June 13, 2011 17 Comments

The following pretty much speaks for itself, so here’s a brief introduction. The Texas Democratic Party sent out a press release today including the remarks of a Texas Tea Party leader, Rebecca Forest, who’s also the founder of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas.

“If you want to know why we can’t pass legislation in Texas it’s because we have 37, no 36, Hispanics in the Legislature. All of the states that have passed legislation have a handful and I mean literally, some of them have no Hispanic legislators, well, maybe 3 or 5 or something. So that’s, umm, part of our problem and we need to change those numbers.

“Umm, we need to do something about that in fact, during the debate on ‘sanctuary cities,’ several Hispanic legislators testified that their grandparents and their parents were migrant workers who came over here to work and that they even worked in the fields. And some of them even admitted that they had been here illegally and that they came illegally. So the problem is these Hispanic legislators…is that it’s too close to them and they, umm… simply cannot vote their conscience correctly. So that’s about all I have to say to you, please come to the hearing, and help us spread this message. Thank you.”

So the problem is that Latinos have become elected officials? Wow, um, I guess that pretty much says it all, now doesn’t it? Here’s the video:

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  • John Galt

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/hispanicleaders.asp

    Here’s your racism. Read all about it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MH2CHNWIWYJ55QDWQ4USXIZTQE Dk Jordan

    Robert Gonzalez is a legal citizen of America having immigrated from Cuba. For a real voice of the people, take a look at his website. http://www.gonzalez2012.com. He’s running for Ron Paul’s old seat in District 14 and from what I have learned by talking with him, he is the ONLY one of the bunch of typical politician types to understand illegal immigration and how it needs to be fixed.

  • Turtles-Run

    Lets be honest.  It is not the Tea Party.  Its the GOP that is using the Tea Party as their front to try to implement their crazy social agenda of marginalizing minorities and women.

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  • http://twitter.com/Jim_Dunedin Jim

    Yeah and just think of all the anti-black legislation we could pass if it wasn’t for all those darn black legislators. We’ve got to do something about them.

    Yeah and just think of all the anti-woman legislation we could pass if it wasn’t for all those darn women legislators. We’ve got to do something about them.

    Yeah and just think of all the anti-LGBT legislation we could pass if it wasn’t for all those darn LGBT legislators. We’ve got to do something about them.

    Etc.

    Yeah, representation sure is a pain isn’t it?

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  • Caraballo

    Racism is back and completely out of the closet in the Tea Party ! Thanks for coming out so we know who you are.  Jose Antonio Caraballo Rivera  (by the way I am an american citizen)

  • Savio

    Yes sir bub,this is  the great Lonestar state where it has always been racist and now Texas is not hiding it . The tea Party fits Texas with it’s racial overtone. ‘I’am completely convinced that all opposition to Obama is racist . I have seen it,right here in El Paso.Hispanics need to unite and fight for rights as citizens,

  • Atrdiablo

    Wow is good to be in America so you can say what ever you want even if is wrong

  • JackieInDallas

    Interesting. Duly elected officials of American citizens who just happen to be Hispanic in origin are what is making our Legislature dysfunctional? There are 181 members — 150 in the House and 31 in the Senate. That means that less than 20% of the members of both houses are Hispanic. They don’t even have the numbers to block legislation, so how could they be responsible? Unless, of course, you don’t want ANY representation of a minority group that is fast closing on becoming a majority in this state.

    You HAVE to be an American citizen to vote. You HAVE to be an American citizen to run for office. This is LAW. What the Republicans want to do is dis-enfranchise the Hispanic voters because: 1) they vote in greater percentages than many other groups, and 2) they rarely vote Republican. Gee, that was so DIFFICULT to figure out.

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  • John Hablinski

    This is the damnedest thing I have ever seen. I haven’t come
    across anything so racist since I can’t remember when and I can well remember
    the Jim Crow South. I remember being in a Kroger Store in Houston with separate
    water fountains and I remember being in Jena LA, I believe, in 1969 where they
    had just built and opened a new DQ built from the then new Brazier design which
    was an answer to Burger Kings broiler method of cooking which had separate entrances.
    Black folks had to go around to the back! Those were very different times and
    though the world was changing some were still dragging their feet, or maybe it
    was their knuckles which were dragging but that was more than 40 years ago. This
    Cannot Stand!

  • http://profiles.google.com/wiseoldsnail wiseold snail

    oh, jeez.  imagine how bad the hispanic teachers are, then.  that could signal the end of amurrka as we (think we) know it! 

  • http://profiles.google.com/wiseoldsnail wiseold snail

    so how does this black miss liberty standing there in the wind feel hearing these racist comments spewing out?