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Guest Post: ImpreMedia US Largest Spanish Paper Ignores Obama Snub to NALEO

July 1st, 2011 · 3 Comments

Webmaster’s Note: The following is a guest blog post by Luis Alvarado expressing his thoughts on the Spanish language media’s response to President Obama not showing up to last week’s NALEO conference. I’m not particularly surprised by the lack of coverage of this snub especially by La Opinion (ImpreMedia) since Monica Lozano, the paper’s publisher, [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Democratic Party · GOP · Media · National Association of Latino Elected Officials · Republican Party · Univision

Latinos in 2012: Vote out Loud!

December 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments

By Carlos Macías With a new holiday season kicking in and facing a last push to get a vote on the DREAM Act, the November 2nd midterm elections seems like a distant memory. The results show the growing influence of Latino voters in swing states like Florida and New Mexico. They also secured key races [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Education · Immigration · LULAC · Media · National Association of Latino Elected Officials · National Council of La Raza · Univision · voting trends

Who is Our Cesar Chavez? Who is Our Dolores Huerta?

November 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments

By Matthew Stieglitz As 2011 approaches, let us take a moment to review 2000-2010 through a lens of Latino disempowerment. During this decade, our community has weathered firestorms ranging from anti-immigrant rhetoric, to financial extortion, to exclusion from the American educational system. Make no mistake, when politicians refuse to provide access to higher education for [...]

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Tags: Civil Rights · community organizing and activism · Education · Immigration · Labor Relations · Latino History · LULAC · National Association of Latino Elected Officials · National Council of La Raza

Latinos Aren’t Important on Capitol Hill

August 1st, 2010 · 14 Comments

By Pablo Manriquez In February, a report issued by the Congressional Hispanic Staff Association (CHSA) discovered that among Congressional staff on Capitol Hill, “Latinos are almost completely left out of key staff positions and are drastically underrepresented at all staff levels.” Further, the CHSA report concludes that Latinos “are not only being denied a seat [...]

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Tags: Democratic Party · diversity · Education · GOP · Government Accountability · Immigration · National Association of Latino Elected Officials · Republican Party

MALDEF and NALEO side with the Legislative Establishment in Opposing Prop. 11 in the Golden State

October 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments

A pajarito sent me a tip this week that MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund) and NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected Officials) are opposing Proposition 11 in California because they are playing personal politics. Apparently, one of the authors of the bill, which would take the ability to redistrict out of the [...]

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Tags: Democratic Party · MALDEF · National Association of Latino Elected Officials

Clinton tells NALEO that we have to be united in backing Barack Obama

June 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Yesterday Hillary Clinton told a room full of Latino Elected Officials that we all should be united in backing Barack Obama. In acknowledging the help she received from the Latino community, she said, “I was very honored to have so much support in the Hispanic community. I believe this country is worth fighting for, and the best [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Hillary Clinton · National Association of Latino Elected Officials · Presidential Elections

Latinos and the GOP, has the damage been done?

September 16th, 2007 · 26 Comments

This morning I found this article in the Wall Street Journal about Hispanics and the GOP. It has become so obvious that the Republicans do not take a welcoming stance toward Latinos, as the Republican presidential candidates have blown off the NALEO and NCLR conferences and only John McCain has accepted Spanish language network Univision’s [...]

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Tags: Democratic Party · GOP · John McCain · National Association of Latino Elected Officials · National Council of La Raza · Republican Party · Uncategorized

What a Mitt Romney presidency might mean for Latinos.

August 16th, 2007 · 20 Comments

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the Iowa Republican Party Straw Poll this past weekend. Additionally, reports have just come out that he’s worth an estimated $247 million, making all of the fuss about Democratic candidate John Edwards’ riches look like much ado about nothing. John Edwards reports assets of about $30 million and has [...]

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Tags: GWB · JFK · John Edwards · Kennedys · Mitt Romney · Mormon Church · National Association of Latino Elected Officials · National Council of La Raza · Presidential Elections