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Monday, March 4, 2013

California Republicans Recognize The Need To Connect With Hispanic Community



From The Huffington Post:

California Republicans acknowledged this weekend that the party needs to recruit more Hispanic candidates as well as extend an olive branch to Latinos to have any political future in the Golden State.

No Republican has been elected to statewide party in seven years, and that was Arnold Schwarzenegger whose movie star celebrity may have accounted more for his win than any GOP connection.

So at their state meeting in Sacramento, Republicans had to swallow the bad news that read like something out of a supermarket tabloid: “Go Hispanic or Die!”

“Latino outreach is the greatest challenge for the Republican Party today,” GOP activist Ruben Barrales said at the convention where the GOP began preparing for the 2014 mid-term elections.
“(But) It’s not about (only) outreach — it’s about inclusion. If we want more Latinos in the Republican Party we have to bring more Latinos into the Republican Party.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/california-republicans-re_n_2802308.html

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