Debt Ceiling Deal Bad News For Latinos
Debt Ceiling Deal Bad News For Latinos
So the big news of the day is that President Barack Obama and House Republicans reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling — but there’s a huge “but.” The […]
How The GOP Can Use Immigration To Win Over Latino Voters
Despite promoting controversial anti-immigration legislation and impeding access to educational resources for Latinos, the Republican Party has devoted the last five decades to establishing inroads with second- and third-generation Latino […]
GOP Hopes To Avoid Immigration Issue To Win Florida
I’m not making this up, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a conference call today that the Republicans would try to skirt debate on immigration during the election, trying […]
GOP Candidates Ignore Latinos, Then Lie To Them
If you ask me, and no one did I’m just saying, this is a pretty lame way to treat a huge voting bloc. Let me break it down. The reason […]
GOP, Dems Want Latino Votes, What Do We Want In Return?
That the Republican Party is busy recruiting Latinos is not surprising, given the recent success of Marco Rubio in Florida and Raul Labrador, the first ever Latino elected to the […]
Shooting Immigrants Comment Harkens Back To Jim Crow
[Editor’s note: The following is an op-ed from Somos Republicans.] By Bob Quasius Despite our appeal to reason, Mo Brooks refuses to apologize for his “shooting” comment regarding illegal immigration, and […]
GOP Better At Recruiting Latino Candidates Than Democrats
This is how it breaks down: the number of Latino Democratic politicos is down, the number of Republican Latino politicos is up. It’s not a hard calculus to understand. The […]
Spanish TV Ads Are Not Latino Politics
In 2008 the political pundits said the presidential election was the most Latinized, ever. It was also the first time, that I know, that the term was used in the […]
Romney’s LA Visit & The Lameness Of Latino Voter Pitches
Mitt Romney continued his pitch to Latinos in Los Angeles yesterday and the mayor of that city, Antonio Villaraigosa held a tele-press conference to seize the moment and call foul. […]
Arizona Border Fence Too Tragic To Be Serious
I haven’t decided who’s more tragic, the people who thought-up and got to work on the plan to raise donations to build a fence along the border between Arizona and […]