Senator Chris Dodd from Connecticut is scheduled to announce his retirement from the Senate tomorrow. In some ways, he has been a friend of the Latino community in that he supported initiatives to increase diversity, and he also is a Spanish speaker, having served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic in the 1960s. [...]

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Per Seneca’s earlier observation about Latino appointments, President Obama is on track to appoint more Latinos to top posts within the administration than did his predecessors, including Presidents Clinton and GWB. The AP has a pretty good article here.
I would like to note this particular part:
“In some ways, Obama is simply following his predecessor’s [...]

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Seneca has contributed the following about Latinos and the use of fear in the political climate:
Fear in public discourse is as ancient as political competition. While man was in the caves, he became fearful of fire, the shadows it created, lightening, thunder, the wind or snow storms, the swollen sea, the flooding streams, [...]

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The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting article about how Governor Schwarzenegger’s pick for the lieutenant governor’s position, State Senator Abel Maldonado, is causing headaches for both the state GOP and Democratic establishment. In a way, this was a brilliant move for Schwarzenegger in selecting this relatively moderate Republican Latino for the job because he [...]

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I’m so proud that this blog participated in the campaign to get Lou Dobbs off of CNN. Well, the holidays have come early to all who participated in this campaign, as it has just been reported that Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN and that tonight will be his last show on that network.
My favorite [...]

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