Replies

If a Republican wins the endorsement of a large Latino organization, doesn't that qualify as news? Not in California. As of Monday, no major California paper had reported that Bill Simon won the endorsement of 22 of the 32 chapters of the Mexican American Political Association.

And can you imagine the outright propaganda that will prevail if campaign finance report ever becomes the law of the land.

It'll be a crime to so much as mention the name of a Republican candidate in public.

The MAPA used to be important to the L.A. Times.

Here is a PARTIAL quote from an LAT obituary, from http://www.s-t.com/daily/06-02/06-22-02/zzzddobi.htm:

GEORGE SOTELO, MEXICAN ACTIVIST
By ELAINE WOO, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES -- George Sotelo, an early crusader for Mexican American civil rights who helped launch influential advocacy groups in California, died June 12 of cancer at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 78...
-- snip --
...He was a founding member of the Mexican American Political Association, the advocacy group founded after World War II that helped elect Ed Roybal, the first California Latino in Congress, and was influential in obtaining appointments for Mexican Americans in the administrations of California Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown and President Johnson...
-- snip --

But, of course, that was THEN, and their endorsement of Bill Simon is NOW...