Comments on: Meg Whitman’s Latino Outreach & the Pete Wilson Connection

By: Create Jobs for USA: Why Latinos Should Take a Look

Create Jobs for USA: Why Latinos Should Take a Look — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:05:50 +0000

[...] often bring up the fact that so many new businesses are started by Latinos (remember former CA GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman talking that up?). A few weeks ago, a new book by Melvin Delgado titled Latino Small Businesses and the [...]

By: Manny Avila

Manny Avila — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:30:47 +0000

Just so that all of you are made aware, Reyfeo is not a Latino. He is a right-wing zealot trying to pass himself off as a Latino. And for all of you Republican Latinos, you need to invest in mirrors, so that you can see that you fall into the category of people that Republicans love to demonize. A Republican Latino is like a Nazi Jew. Pretty much a self-hating person that has no self-respect and tolerates bigots and zealots in order to get taken-in as a token amongst certain groups.

By: Manny Avila

Manny Avila — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:03:45 +0000

Meg Whitman makes me sick, she is so too faced! I will never for the anti-Latino ads she ran on AM radio prior to the Primary. Now she has changed her tune and comes out acting like she is an “amiga” of our community. She is a liar and any Latino that votes for her is spitting on Cesar Chavez and all of the other leaders who have given so much of their lives on our behalf. Please don’t vote for this winch, SHE IS A TWO-FACED LIAR!

By: Cleto

Cleto — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:58:26 +0000

I am a conservative. I wrote to Whitman and told her Pete Wilson is a deal breaker. I will not vote for Whitman.

By: webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:53:04 +0000

’1. Pete Wilson DID NOT sign Prop 187 into law, because it was an initiative VOTED by 70% of Californians (with exit polls showing that 40% of us Latinos voting for it).’

thanks for that correction… It has been noted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187_%281994%29

Yes, I know that Wilson was at one point supportive of IRCA:

http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/2465/Impact-Immigration-on-Twenty-First-Century-America-CALIFORNIA-S-ROLE-IN-IMMIGRATION.html

By: Felipe

Felipe — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:52:42 +0000

If you are going to soil someone’s reputation, at least get the facts straight.
1. Pete Wilson DID NOT sign Prop 187 into law, because it was an initiative VOTED by 70% of Californians (with exit polls showing that 40% of us Latinos voting for it).
2. Also it was not “easily overturned in the courts.” Grey Davis just didn’t defend it, even though he promised he would. It died in the court, but WAS NOT overturned NOR deemed unconstitutional.
3. Senator signed the Amnesty Bill of 1984. Isn’t that was all of you open borders people want?

Please read Pete Wilson’s speeches on 187. He was right then and he is right now.

By: Proud Cal Latin Guy

Proud Cal Latin Guy — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:19:47 +0000

I’m so not surprised at the majority of comments posted by Latinos on this blog. As a California born Latino of immigrant “legal” grandparents, Reyfeo is the only person on this site that sees the issue as it is, like it or not, and can articulate it very well as a matter of fact.

Hey, I grew up in a all black community and witnessed the Democrats for decades pandering to the the black and Latino communities for votes, while making empty promises, selling the idea that Big Brother will take care of ALL your needs,…. forever. It was grand standing and not one candidate ever came through with anything, and thank God for that!

Latins are a proud race, with roots stemming back to Spain who was a major world conqueror once. Since when does the offspring of a world conqueror want, or need, a Government to give them everything (sustenance, education, health care, employment), thus making them dependent slaves? Where not Chinese, Cubans, North Koreans, or Russians are we?

For those that voted for the so-called self proclaimed “yes we can” messiah, you got what you asked for. Historic debt, ill conceived and passed programs and worse, no leadership whatsoever. Why are you worrying about the Republicans at this point? Your Captain steered this boat, with you on it, right smack dab into an ice berg that he COULD’VE avoided.

As for the very REAL problem we Californians have with illegal immigration, something needs to be done before the Golden State goes bankrupt. Legalizing them does not correct anything. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

I’m perplexed at the reaction from so many? If you are a legal tax paying, performing citizen, as your parents and grand parents were, what in God’s name do you have to worry about? If you’re not, I’d be worried too.

If any Hispanic American did to another country what the illegals have done here, there would be be no leniency because we broke their laws and they enforced it. So why is it wrong for OUR state / country to do the same?

As the song says, how about we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and start all over again.

By: Poizner and Whitman Write Opinion Pieces on Immigration in the LA Times

Poizner and Whitman Write Opinion Pieces on Immigration in the LA Times — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:02:39 +0000

[...] this portion about her expressed opposition to Proposition 187 was somewhat ironic given the prominence of former California Governor Pete Wilson in her campaign (remember that Wilson was a big proponent of this ballot initiative, which was [...]

By: Multilingual Mania

Multilingual Mania — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:28:28 +0000

I’m so sick of Whitman! She came out with LA Times opinion piece that says that the immigration debate should have more respect for Latinos. She is full of it!

By: Mark C.

Mark C. — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:50:06 +0000

It is a fact that there many like me, ( loyalty to the betterment of American first, of Latino background), that clearly are in line with Reyfeo’s position here. ( Although I am not speaking for Reyfeo through my post, he can speak for himself just fine.) More importantly, we are organized and ready to let our voices be counted at the polls in 2010 and 2012. Fiscally reckless Tax n spend liberals and RINO’s (including the Meg Whitman type), have destroyed California and will NOT get our vote. Let’s be clear, Americans of Latin descent are NOT the property of the Liberal Democrats and do not respond to their marching orders on command. – maybe those illegals (regardless of ethnic background ) that make their way off govermant handouts from the legal taxpaying citizens of a liberal controlled CA and are always looking for the WIFM in the equation dolled out by liberals do, but conservatives, regardless of skin color, gender or religion do NOT need Gov handouts to make our way in a free market society so long as Gov stays out of the way. Conservatism is on the ascendency and the liberals on this board need to perform their pro-american patriotic duty and cooperate with the Conservatives and help us bring California back to greatness; the California they destroyed.