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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-25-06 08:09 PM
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1. As a white guy who attended
Three HIspanic Leadership Conferences, which are held in Chicago each year, there is no place a republican would feel more unwelcome.

This is how bad republicans have it with Hispanics. In 2000 - the last time I attended - I hung around with my grad school's previous Hispanic Student Services Coordinator who had since moved on to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). UTEP and El Paso itself allow the citizens of Juarez just across the Rio Grande to cross over pretty freely and attend college at comparable rates to US citizens. My friend had brought a mixture of American Hispanic and Mexican students from UTEP with him, and they told me this story.

Earlier in the year, some people from the Bush campaign had approached the Mexican ones only and asked if they would like to be part of an all-expenses paid non-partisan workshop dealing with the American political process. They of course agreed. The "non-partisan" event turned out to be the GOP National Convention which I believe was held in Philadelphia that year. They were bussed to Philly and put up in a cheap motel. If you recall, the theme of that year's convention was essentially, "Look at How Minorities Love George W. Bush!" When it came time to show how much Hispanics loved George W., these students I met were trotted up on stage. They realized they had been had, but they played along nicely and smiled and waved. One of them even showed me a picture of herself on stage.

THAT's how much Hispanics support George W. He had to outsource their jobs of supporting him to Mexicans.

TlalocW
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