Soros and Other Liberal Donors to Fund Bid to Spur Latino Voters

*It seems liberal mega-donors, led by George Soros, saw the anti-Trump anger-energy in the Latino community and decided it’s a good $15 million investment.  So, if they asked you, how would you put that money to good voter use? VL

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By Nicholas Confessore and Julia Preston, The New York Times (5 minute read)

The billionaire George Soros and other liberal donors will bankroll a new $15 million campaign to mobilize Latinos and other immigrants this fall, hoping to channel outrage at the political rhetoric of Donald J. Trump and other Republicans into a surge of votes for Democratic candidates in November.

Strategists involved said the new spending would be the largest Democratic voter-turnout effort ever devoted exclusively to Latino and immigrant voters. Most of the money will be spent through organizations in Colorado, Florida and Nevada, states with large or growing Latino and Asian populations that will be pivotal in the presidential race and in the battle for control of the Senate.

The outreach, which will be coordinated through a new “super PAC” called Immigrant Voters Win PAC, will be more explicitly political and partisan than past efforts, the strategists said: The goal was to not only turn out committed Latinos already voting Democratic but also find and persuade immigrant swing voters. Ultimately, organizers hope to get at least 400,000 new Democratic voters to the polls in November.

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Suggested reading

  The second installment in Rolando Hinojosa’s acclaimed Klail City Death Trip Series returns to South Texas, where Mexicans and Anglos share an uneasy coexistence.

Don Aureliano Mora waits three years for justice after his son, a World War II veteran, is murdered by a Belken County Deputy Sheriff. When the Anglo gets away with murder, Don Aureliano takes matters—in the shape of a crowbar—into his own hands, pulverizing the plaque in old Klail City Park that honors the town’s World War II vets.

The younger generation has to fight for equality, too. The Texas Mexican boys playing high school football in Klail City don’t get letter jackets, even though all of their Anglo peers do. And when the Mexican boys aren’t interested in hustling for the ball the following year, the school board comes up with enough money for all the eligible players to get letter jackets. In the end it doesn’t really matter; several of the Mexican boys die in the Korean War. But life goes on in Klail City. The rains come and go, crops are raised and people are buried.

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