New Republican research on the GOP and Hispanics gives the party reason for hope that it can climb out of the political hole it is in with these voters. But there’s some bad news mixed in with the good, laid out in a Public Opinion Strategies memo about two lengthy focus groups of Hispanic voters this month in Las Vegas.
The most surprising findings involve social and cultural issues.
Conservatives may assume they have the franchise on “faith and family” and all that label signifies, but Hispanics don’t see it that way.
Polls show that Hispanics really do line up more with Republicans on gay marriage and abortion, as the GOP claims when it talks of Hispanics as Republicans in waiting or Republicans who just don’t realize it yet.
But “by a rather staggering margin,” POS partner Nicole McCleskey writes in the memo, Hispanics say they are much more likely to agree with the Democratic approach to social and cultural issues.
Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/hispanics-actually-don-t-share-republican-faith-and-family-values-20130426
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Gabriel Gomez for U.S. Senate
Gabriel Gomez is a new generation of Republican leader with a great American story.
Gabriel, 47, was born in Los Angeles and is the son of Colombian immigrants. With his mother only knowing a few words of English, Gabriel grew up speaking Spanish before learning English. Like so many other new American families, his parents overcame hardships to create a better life for their children. Gabriel’s upbringing in a grateful, first generation American family instilled in him a duty to give back to his country and led him to successfully seek appointment to the United States Naval Academy. Graduating from Annapolis with merit, Gabriel began his Navy service by earning an invitation to flight school and quickly earned his wings. Gabriel served the country flying E2-C Hawkeyes and C2-A Greyhounds off aircraft carriers.
With a growing sense of obligation and duty, and a continuing desire to excel within the Navy, Gomez pursued a transfer into the Navy SEALS, an elite unit where only 20 percent of applicants complete the arduous training. Gabriel was warned that if he failed to make the cut, he would lose his status as a Navy pilot. He succeeded as a SEAL with distinction, becoming the class leader during training and a platoon commander upon completion.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Op-ed: The Republican tug of war between Hispanics and the Tea Party
Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Research Associate with the Public Religion Research Institute writes this latest piece for NBC Latino.
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Republican Party needs to support comprehensive immigration reform if it is to become more diverse and attract more Hispanic voters into its coalition. But the GOP may have a tough time bringing the Tea Party along for the ride.
New data from a joint survey by Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution shows that Americans who identify with the Tea Party are far more likely than other Republicans to oppose comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship – and that’s not likely to change any time soon. The question is how the Republican Party will manage its current coalition – especially keeping the Tea Party faction happy – with rising pressure to support policies that would bring more diversity to the party.
Read more: http://nbclatino.com/2013/03/29/op-ed-the-republican-tug-of-war-between-hispanics-and-the-tea-party/
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Republican Party needs to support comprehensive immigration reform if it is to become more diverse and attract more Hispanic voters into its coalition. But the GOP may have a tough time bringing the Tea Party along for the ride.
New data from a joint survey by Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution shows that Americans who identify with the Tea Party are far more likely than other Republicans to oppose comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship – and that’s not likely to change any time soon. The question is how the Republican Party will manage its current coalition – especially keeping the Tea Party faction happy – with rising pressure to support policies that would bring more diversity to the party.
Read more: http://nbclatino.com/2013/03/29/op-ed-the-republican-tug-of-war-between-hispanics-and-the-tea-party/
Friday, March 29, 2013
Republican Congressman Refers to Latinos as "Wetbacks"
The Republican Party has embarked on an effort to re-brand itself to a more diverse set of voters, but one GOP congressman apparently did not get the memo.
Rep. Don Young (Alaska) referred to Latinos using the racial slur"wetbacks" in an interview with public radio station KRBD that was published on Thursday. Young, 79, used the term when discussing how automation in industry has taken away jobs from working-class individuals.
"I used to own -- my father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes," he said. "You know, it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now."
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/republican-congressman-refers-latinos-wetbacks/story?id=18836752#.UVWgP7Aq3D1
Monday, March 11, 2013
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Do you want to empower Latino Republicans to build their own Republican Party? Are you a Latino Republican who wants to run for office? If you answered ‘YES’ to any of these questions, we invite you to join GROW Elect. Just fill out the form below, indicate your interest, and we will add you to our internal communications list and contact you shortly.
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GROW Helps Elect Three More Latino Republicans to Office
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| Jack Guerrero won his seat for City Council in the City of Cudahy |
The three winners are in addition to 30 Latino Republicans elected to local office across California with the support of GROW Elect since late 2011.
GROW Elect President Ruben Barrales declared, “I am proud of all of our candidates and of the hard work of our team in helping guide three of them to victory. I am especially proud of Jack Guerrero’s victory. He is an impressive young talent, a CPA who is Stanford and Harvard educated. Elected Democratic leaders tried hard to defeat Jack, so they could cite it as an example to be used against us. Our team on the ground made the difference in Jack’s tough election victory.
“GROW Elect is getting results and changing the face of the Republican Party in California one election at a time, one office at a time. We are in this for the long haul and last night’s results are just the latest boost in momentum for our efforts,” concluded Barrales.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Alberto Gonzales: Drones and The Power to Kill
The fmr. U.S. Attorney General weighs in on the use of drones on American citizens.
I support the authority of the president, relying upon his commander in chief powers, to kill enemy combatants according to the laws of war — even those who are American citizens. Few people could credibly question the authority of American forces to kill an armed member of al-Qaida confronted on the battlefield.
Most Americans would also agree that if that same al-Qaida member is an American citizen, our military forces are not required to call “time out” before using force, nor required to provide a battlefield mini-hearing to satisfy some notion of due process.
Under either scenario, members of al-Qaida constitute the enemy; they are combatants on the battlefield and may be killed or detained according to the laws of war.
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2013/02/18/alberto-gonzales-drones-and-power-to-kill/#ixzz2N3wBf2ez
Stephen A. Nuño: Petrodollars will continue to dominate our relationship with Venezuela
Hugo Chavez is dead, but his oil lives. A man who evoked a prism of emotions, from those looking down on Latin America with scorn for his anti-American rhetoric to those who yearned that his democratic message may infect our complacent masses, Chavez was a divisive symbol of our changing relationship with our continental neighbors.
The article continues: An oil tycoon American leftists could love, a member of the one percent now at rest with over a billion dollars to his name, and countless admirers from the ninety-nine percent in this game called politics, Chavez was both villain and hero of the Americas. It’s difficult to find a more polarizing international figure in American politics than Hugo Chavez.
His reckless personality and charismatic charm forced Americans to confront our foreign policy in a way no other Latin country has. His single-minded drive to resist American pressure and his embrace of our enemies, like Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Iran’s Ahmadinejad, while in our backyard was a rebuke that our government took personally
More: The larger picture is unlikely to change with Chavez’ death, and until we see Latin America beyond the sense of entitlement we have grown to assume in our relationship with that region, we will continue to serve as a convenient focal point of indignation for Latin politicians to rally their people behind.
Read more: http://nbclatino.com/2013/03/06/opinion-petrodollars-will-continue-to-dominate-our-relationship-with-venezuela/
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