Showing posts with label Rethuglican outreach to Hispanics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rethuglican outreach to Hispanics. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2016

How's That Hispanic Outreach Coming Along, Republicans?


No, no podemos:
The head of Hispanic media relations at the Republican National Committee is resigning this month in what appears to be another indication of the lingering discomfort some party officials have about working to elect Donald J. Trump president.

Ruth Guerra, who is of Mexican descent and was in charge of carrying the party’s message to Hispanic voters, is joining the American Action Network, a Republican-aligned “super PAC,” she confirmed in a brief interview on Wednesday.  [snip]

But Ms. Guerra told colleagues this year that she was uncomfortable working for Mr. Trump, according two R.N.C. aides who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the difficulties surrounding the party’s presumptive standard-bearer(our emphasis)
Hmmm.  "Lingering discomfort."  "Difficulties surrounding..."  You must mean "the realization that your party is about to nominate a raging, horrific, racist clown, and you're collaborating in the act." 

Guerra was quickly replaced by Helen Aguirre Ferre (a Cuban American perhaps less sensitive to Rump's slurs on Mexican Americans), who had this to say about Rump in March:
"Donald Trump has contributed to this [culture of violence that we’re seeing],” she said. “And there is very clear evidence in his speeches and his rallies that he does instigate that violence. And then he’ll say, ‘I will pay for your attorney,’ or ‘Don’t rough them up too much,’ as if [the anti-Trump protesters] were going to be...roughed up anyway. But just the introduction to that in the political context from a candidate is so dangerous, and so divisive. And even when he speaks in defense of his [actions]...he comes back to illegal immigration and immigrants, as if immigrants were a problem with the violence yesterday. He [also] doesn’t denounce the violence that was committed against journalists … Trump hasn't come out and said, ‘Don't do that. We don't condone that, this is a place of peace.’ And he's not trying to be peaceful—he's actually rallying up the support.”
But, that was a whole 3 months ago, and this is now:
“I am proud to be joining the RNC at such a critical time,” the new Director of Hispanic Communications said. “This is one of the most important elections of our lifetime, and I’m eager to make the case to the Hispanic community why Republican ideas and values are the way forward for our country after eight years of an Obama agenda which has failed all Americans.” 
"Proud!"  It takes a particular kind of smarmy hypocrite to swallow whatever pride you may have and support a party whose "presidential" nominee is an unqualified, bigoted, racist ignoramus like Donald "Rump" Trump;  but apparently they're out there, right, Ms. Aguirre Ferre?

Sunday, August 30, 2015

How's That Hispanic Outreach Coming Along? Rump Trump Dept.


Here's today's eRumption, guaranteed to win the hearts and minds of Hispanic Americans everywhere.  It's raging Republican nativist blowhard Donald "Rump" Trump speaking to yahoos in Nashville, TN about his recent encounter with respected Univision journalist Jorge Ramos:
He got perhaps his biggest cheers of the day by boasting about his back-and-forth with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos during a press conference in Iowa.
“This clown, Jose Reyes, or whatever the hell his name is,” he said. “Ramos! Actually, Jose Reyes is a baseball player. Ramos got up the other day screaming and ranting.”
That's quite a "net positive," isn't it,  emptiest- suit- in- politics Reince Priebus?  YOOOGE!

Thursday, June 18, 2015

How's That Republican Rebranding Coming Along, Hispanic Outreach Edition


No estan escuchando:
In an autopsy of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential election loss, the Republican Party concluded it was “imperative” for GOP candidates to step up their engagement with Latinos in order to win back the White House.
Otherwise, the report said, “they will close their ears to our policies.”
An obvious place to start would be the nation’s annual “Latino political convention” here this week in Las Vegas, where more than 1,200 Hispanic leaders have gathered for, among other things, a presidential candidates forum.
Yet out of the GOP’s 16 declared or likely presidential candidates, only one — retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson — showed.  (our emphasis)
That's right.  Only Ben "On Meds?" Carson showed up. A guy who blamed the measles outbreak in California in part on illegal immigrants.

We fear for the rebranding.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

How's That Republican Rebranding Coming Along? (Hispanic Outreach Edition)

First, we see Sen. Marco "Glug, Glug" Rubio (Judas Goat - FL) caught playing a double agent game on his own immigration reform bill:
So when Sen. Marco Rubio disagreed with the prevailing assumption that the Gang of Eight immigration bill had at least the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster by his GOP colleagues, he knew something the rest of us didn’t know: he was counting himself as a “no” vote. And it turns out he’s been working behind the scenes with John Cornyn (who voted against the bill in the Judiciary Committee) to draft an omnibus conservative “poison pill” amendment to the bill that if passed would by all accounts unravel the whole bipartisan coalition supporting comprehensive immigration reform.
Then, we take note of the long-expected collapse of immigration reform talks in the House:
Bipartisan meetings in the House of Representatives on a comprehensive immigration reform bill have failed, and the congressmen will meet for the last time today without reaching an agreement on a House bill, ABC News has learned.
The stumbling block is GOP insistence that newly legalized workers now working in the shadows have no access to government-sponsored health care during their 15-year pathway to citizenship, according to two sources with access to the secret house “Gang of 8″ meetings.
And now we sit back, grab some salsa and chips, and watch the Rethuglican "Hispanic outreach" gambit crack open like a cheap pinata (sorry, we wanted to stay with the metaphor).

UPDATE:  House Rethugs, led by nativist crackpot Rep. Steve King (Yahoo- IA), passed a bill Thursday to resume the deportation of young immigrants (a.k.a, DREAMers").

(Photo:  "Agua!  Agua!")

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Cartoon of the Day - Rethuglican Hispanic Outreach


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(Jim Morin, Miami Herald, via gocomics.com)