Posted on 03/17/2002 6:00:26 AM PST by Love America or move to ......
Hispanics nationwide have a stake in the Texas governor's race. Laredo businessman and millionaire Tony Sanchez won the Democratic primary by about a 2 to 1 margin. If Sanchez unseats Republican Gov. Rick Perry in November, he will become the first Hispanic governor of Texas. Texas, following California, also would become the second state in which Hispanic voters put an end to Republican dominance.
In California, Hispanic voters were something of a sleeping giant. That all changed with the administration of Pete Wilson, the Republican governor who stupidly decided to exploit the state's xenophobes and bash immigrants. Wilson blamed immigrants - legal and illegal - for just about everything from lousy schools and health care to the failure to achieve world peace.
Faced with such abuse, the sleeping giant woke up. Voter registration drives became a favorite pastime in Hispanic neighborhoods. In 1998, Gray Davis became the first Democratic governor of California in 16 years.
He trounced his Republican opponent Dan Lungren, drawing 58 percent of the vote; Lungren got 38 percent. Davis captured just about every voter block except for white men, Republicans and Protestants. He carried Hispanics by a great margin.The Texas primary race, similarly, drew a heavy Hispanic vote in the southern part of the state. Observers said more Hispanics were moved to vote. While the major Democratic candidates both were Hispanic, Sanchez said his opponent, Dan Morales, was embarrassed to be Hispanic.
Sanchez reportedly spent about $18 million to defeat Morales. This is a record for a Texas primary, and it reflects an odd element to the general election. Sanchez is new to politics and wealthy. The family fortune is said to be $600 million. He reportedly threw as much as $13 million of his own money into his campaign kitty.
Hispanics are the fastest growing minority in the country. And as they increase, so too does their political influence. This is the most important political trend since Richard Nixon launched his successful southern strategy in which he urged conservative southern Democrats to switch to the Republican Party. It's a trend that could affect Illinois, New Jersey and some southern states where there is growing Hispanic influence.
How could so many Republicans be so wrong about the effects of mass Latino immigration on the future of the Republican Party? And be so pro-illegal alien amnesty?
Their insistence that Latinos eventually will vote Republican reminds me of the Marine Colonel in the movie Full Metal Jacket. To paraphrase him: "Inside every Democrat Immigrant Latino voter is a Conservative Republican dying to get out".
Latino's are a natural fit for the Republican party, they are cultuarlly conservative, but all you do is push them away with your xenophobic rantings and the demo's exploit that.
Now let's look at what I'd call a typical 'mezzican. Ask 'em what's important to them and the usual answer is "freedom for my family".
Who goes to the trouble to knock on their door? Usually early 20's from the nearest college young Democrat club.
........which is why those registered Independent in Arizona include a big bunch of ex Republicans.
In my experience in Arizona.
I do not think Sanchez can be taken lightly. If a black, Ron Kirk, wins the senatorial nomination on April 9, the Democrats will have a black-brown-white slate, consisting of senatorial candidate Kirk, gubernatorial candidate Sanchez, and lieutenant governor candidate John Sharp, who nearly beat Perry for lt. gov. in 1998. There is a theory that Sharp helped to assemble this Democrat team so he can be guaranteed nearly 100 percent of the minority vote in the fall. Republican lt. gov. candidate David Dewhurst also ran impressively against weak opposition in the primary. Even if Kirk is not nominated, there will still be nearly unanimous black support for the Democrat ticket from the Senate seat to the justice of the peace positions.
I think the GOP is much too lackadaisical in TX for its own good. "Everyone" just presumes that Perry will win because he "leads in polls." This is potentially dangerous. Am I the only one who senses such danger? And even Republicans are already conceding that they will not likely do well in the races for the U.S. House in TX because Democrat federal judges drew the lines to favor Democrats.
You need to get out more, or you're just brainwashed. 95% of voting Republicans in Arizona or any other state do not fall into those categories. Keep pushing that propaganda to scare potential Republican voters off. GO back to DU and get your next set of marching orders.
"With equal pleasure I have often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country, to united people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same lanuage, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established their general Liberty and Independence."federalist 2Jay, John
We have Puerto Rico that has received $100's of billions of U.S. Taxpayer's dollars over the past 100 years. They'll receive around $20 billion dollars of U.S Taxpayer's dollars, in cash, next year, alone. Even after all of that, they're more like Cuba than they'll ever be like the United States. Sure there is a PERCENTAGE of Hispanics that might identify culturally with the United States, but we need a controlled immigration process that will screen them out of the hoards that wish to trample our borders, laws and rights to get here.
Not one of these law-breakers should be allowed to remain in the United States, not one.
I don't know why you persist in defending ILLEGAL immigration that is of a magnitude unprecedented in the history of this planet.
Maybe you can explain why in the world you think we need 1 to 3 million new, illegal, non-English speaking invaders in our country every year? I'd really like to understand where you're coming from.
Why is this less abhorrent to you than 2 to 3 million pounds of recreational narcotics crossing our borders illegally, every year?
No, it will be renamed Aztlan...along with California, Arizona and New Mexico.
I'm glad to see that so many people on FR are making light of this. It isn't a joke. It is happening.
Well at least two referendums in California that would be considered conservative passed with the help of Hispanic support.
The first one was Ron Untz's referendum against bilingual education. It passed with a 60% margin.
The second was the referendum against gay marriage. Again it won by a huge margin and had Hispanic support.
Also there is a Hispanic Republican member of Congress from Texas in what can be considered Sanchez country, his name is Henry Bonilla. So your little template doesn't work, but that doesn't matter to you, IMHO, you want to push these people away for whatever reason.
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