SOMOS REPUBLICANS in the Washington Times regarding Romney anti-immigrant political views

From Washington Times, read full story here:

Yes, we are happy that we have a Mormon running for president,” said Ms. Packard, a Saratoga Springs, Utah, resident and member of Somos (We Are) Republicans. “But a lot of us aren’t supporting him because of his stance against immigrants.”

While stressing the Mormon faith’s historic connection to converting immigrants, Latino Mormons point directly to immigration stories in the Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ recent statements against policies targeting immigrants. They also view Mr. Romney’s stance against proposals giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship as hypocritical since his great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, who had five wives and 30 children, sought refuge in Mexico after passage of an 1882 law that barred polygamy.

“We view immigration as a God event,” said Ignacio Garcia, a history professor at Brigham Young University and a Sunday school teacher at his Mormon ward. “The book says no one comes to the Land unless they are brought by God.”

SOMOS REPUBLICANS IN Yahoo News: Latino Mormons speaking out against Romney

Latino Mormons speaking out against Romney

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Associated Press – 11 hrs ago

“Yes, we are happy that we have a Mormon running for president,” said Packard, a Saratoga Springs, Utah, resident and member of Somos (We are) Republicans. “But a lot of us aren’t supporting him because of his stance against immigrants.”

While stressing the Mormon faith’s historic connection to converting immigrants, Latino Mormons point directly to immigration stories in the Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ recent statements against policies targeting immigrants. They also view Romney’s stance against proposals giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship as hypocritical since Romney’s great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, who had five wives and 30 children, sought refuge in Mexico after passage of an 1882 law that barred polygamy.

SOMOS REPUBLICANS in Houston Chronicle chiming in on GOP Primaries 2012

From Houston Chronicle:

Steve Rodríguez, vicepresidente nacional del grupo Somos Republicans, tiene la misma opinión. Hay que “poner un alto a todas las leyes antiinmigratorias que nuestro partido está tratando de impulsar en el país”, dice Rodríguez, en referencia a leyes como las que han sido aprobadas en Arizona y Alabama, que aplican duras medidas contra los indocumentados. Somos Republicans aboga por una reforma inmigratoria integral y por el Dream Act, un proyecto que legalizaría a estudiantes y jóvenes ilegalmente en el país.

Rodríguez critica la posición del hasta ahora favorito en las primarias republicanas, el exgobernador de Massachusetts Mitt Romney, quien ha prometido vetar el Dream Act y se ha mostrado a favor de la llamada autodeportación para los indocumentados.

“Pienso que (los republicanos) tenemos la oportunidad de atraer a muchos independientes e incluso algunos demócratas hispanos, pero necesitamos un candidato como Newt (Gingrich), que es más abierto a tener una discusión sobre todo el proceso de inmigración”, dice. Gingrich, uno de los cuatro precandidatos republicanos, ha dicho que aceptaría un Dream Act que permita legalizar a los jóvenes si participan en las Fuerzas Armadas, así como un camino a la legalización de latinos con más de 20 años en el país. Sin embargo, Gingrich ha ido perdiendo terreno y se aleja cada vez más del segundo puesto en las primarias frente al ex senador de Pensilvania Rick Santorum. http://www.chron.com/news/article/Republicanos-a-la-conquista-hispana-3340041.php#page-2

Former California Governor Pete Wilson (who oversaw the passage of that state’s anti-immigrant law, Proposition 187) endorsed Mitt Romney for president

Mitt Romney is intentionally destroying his chances of winning Latino voters as he continues to align himself with not only Kris Kobach of FAIR, but now Pete Wilson.  Romney is a dirty charlatan of a politician as he puts himself in a position to fault all minorities (including President Obama) on the economy.  White nationalists and anti-immigrant crusaders such as Kris Kobach and Pete Wilson fault immigrants falsely and ignore immigrant economic contributions.  We know where Romney is going.  He is a dangerous and divisive man taking the GOP back to a pre Civil Rights Act era.

From News Taco

Turns out Florida is not a winner take all state….

From We Are Politics:

Former House Speaker and runner-up in the Florida primary Newt Gingrich is challenging the distribution of delegates in the Florida primary.

The Florida Republican Party opted to change the dates of their primary against the wishes of the Republican National Committee and were penalized half of their original delegate count of 99.  As per the rules of the party,  any primary that is held prior to April 1 has to be awarded on a proportional basis.  According to Fox News:

“The Newt Gingrich campaign is gearing up to challenge the results of the Florida Republican presidential primary based on the Republican National Committee’s own rules which state that no contest can be winner-take-all prior to April 1, 2012…

Fox News has learned exclusively that on Thursday, a Florida Gingrich campaign official will begin the process of trying to have the RNC rules enforced so that the Sunshine State delegates are distributed based on the percentage of the vote each candidate got.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus warned Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry of the violation in a December letter quoting the rule, “…’winner-take-all’ states cannot hold a primary or caucus before April 1, 2012.”

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Newt Gingrich staffs up in Colorado

Helping organize efforts for Gingrich in Pueblo is the Vice President of Somos Republicans, Steven Rodriguez. Somos Republicans’ mission statement is to double the size of the Hispanic GOP voting block in two years. The group endorsed Newt Gingrich’s campaign two weeks ago. In 2010, Rodriguez ran against state Representative, and now CD3 Congressional candidate, Sal Pace (D-Urination).

With Gingrich staffing up in the state, and the only campaign ad being run in Colorado a negative spot from Rick Santorum hitting Gingrich, we’re betting the former Speaker will be arriving any day now. Our sources say “stay tuned.”

If Gingrich does schedule a campaign event, you can find it on our comprehensive GOP Primary Candidate Colorado Event Schedule — the only one we know of in the state.

If you hear of other GOP primary campaign efforts in Colorado, email us at tips (at) coloradopeakpolitics.com

Full story here.

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Hardliners plus Swing Voters: Florida’s Fractured Latino Voters

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“The Democratic Blowout is doing a great position involving usurping your Latino vote, ” Cuban Usa doodlekit Val Prieto explained right after Rubio’s speech. “Historically, their own beliefs will be old-fashioned beliefs – robust spouse and children, strict, hardworking. The one factor that Cheap Timberland Custom Boots separates your Latino vote through the Republican Blowout may be the immigration issue. ”
Somos Republicanos, your country’s largest Hispanic Republican number, has condemned Romney around their old-fashioned opportunities in immigration reform plus chucked it has the backing driving Gingrich.

The pro life movement is on the verge of going extinct with pro choice Mitt Romney

An oath is an oath and we believe the National Right to Life needs to do a better job mobilizing in the midwest and across the nation or the Republican party will be hijacked by the pro choice movement via Mitt Romney. Romney is a proven flip flopper and cannot be trusted. LIFE SHOULD NOT BE GAMBLED WITH.

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The Florida Smear Campaign by Thomas Sowell

Mitt Romney is a dirty politician who passed RomneyCare that set up ObamaCare.  Where are the Tea Party anti-Health Care people now?

Obviously Obama is going to paint Mitt Romney the hypocrite that he really is.  Indeed Romney set up the framework for ObamaCare and now Romney believes he can defeat Obama on health care issues?

From Real Clear Politics:

Do the Romney camp and the Republican establishment not know this, a dozen years later? Or are they far less concerned with whether the charges will stand up than they are about smearing Gingrich on the eve of the Florida primaries?

There are also charges made about what Congressman Gingrich said about Ronald Reagan on March 21, 1986. But this too is a matter of public record, since his remarks are available in the Congressional Record of that date, so it is remarkable that there should be any controversy about it at this late date.

On that date, Gingrich praised Reagan’s grasp of the foreign policy issues of the day but later questioned whether the way the actual policies of the Reagan administration were being carried out was likely to succeed. Gingrich was not alone in making this point which such conservative stalwarts as George Will, Charles Krauthammer and others made at the time.

Since a column of my own back in the 1980s suggested that the administration’s policies seemed to be to “speak loudly and carry a little stick,” I can well understand the misgivings of others. But that is wholly different from saying that all who expressed misgivings were enemies of Ronald Reagan.

One can of course lift things out of context. But if you want to read the whole context, simply go on-line and get the Congressional Record for March 21, 1986. Among the other places where the smears are exposed are the Wall Street Journal of January 29th, Jeffrey Lord’s article in the American Spectator’s blog of January 27th, and an article by Heather Higgins in Ricochet.com of January 29th.

Unfortunately, there are likely to be far more people who will see the smears than will have time to get the facts. But, if nothing else, there needs to be some understanding of the reckless accusations that have become part of the all-out attempt to destroy Newt Gingrich, as so many other political figures have been destroyed, by non-stop smears in the media.

 

 

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