Senator Dick Lugar will be remembered as standing on the “right side” in American history

Guestblogger – Hispanic Politico:

Senator Dick Lugar will be remembered as standing on the “right side” in American history

by Dee Dee Garcia Blase on May. 08, 2012, under 2012 Presidential elections, 2012 United states senate races, female-led political movement, Hispanic Latino Vote

The Tea Party extremists are revealing their game plan little by little.  They had their targets set on a fine statesman such as Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana.  Apparently Lugar was not extremist enough for them in much the same way the Tea Party supporters viewed Senator John McCain of Arizona when they backed JD Hayworth who was within 5 points of McCain at one time during the 2010 elections.

What was the difference?

Indiana Tequila Party Leader, Jose Alvarez: “One of the very few politicians I genuinely liked, and will always support, senate or no senate.” [With Senator Dick Lugar at 2012 Senate Campaign event.

The Latino population in Indiana is not as high as it is here in Arizona.  Mexican-American voters were the key swing vote for McCain that ultimately got him re-elected in the Senate preventing the Tea Party nativist JD Hayworth from winning that seat.  The same was true in the State of Nevada when Hispanics saved Senator Harry Reid’s position when Sharron Angle depicted Latinos as criminals.

Does this mean Latinos should never have tried to rock the Latino vote in the State of Indiana in support of Senator Lugar?

Never.

Latinos did the right thing in utilizing resources, talents and energy to support Senator in every way that we could.  We owed it to Lugar to give it our all because he voted for our youth via the DREAM Act.  The Democratic Senate Candidate via Joe Donnelly did not vote for the DREAM in 2010 as a Congressman, and now he is collateral damage to the Democratic Party for the upcoming 2012 Presidential elections as Latino leaders and immigration leaders become hawkish — particularly in key swing Presidential states.

Just as we viewed the dixiecrats during the Civil Rights era in American history, and Civil Rights Act supporters in the 1960′s … we will view Senator Lugar as one of the few and last Republican leaders who supported immigrant children youth and children in our current struggle and era.  Both Richard Mourdock and Congressman Joe Donnelly are the modern-day dixiecrats and both will be remembered as such as politicians continue to cast votes that are recorded and remembered by the fastest growing demographic in our Nation.

Senator Lugar will be remembered to Latinos as an amigo, because he was one of the few who had courage to do the right thing while the others cowardly demonized immigrants in December of 2010.

We want to thank Lugar from the bottom of our hearts.  And if he ever wants to run for the President of the United States of America, he will be remembered as an amigo that did not betray us or use us for political expediency when all others jumped on the bandwagon to demonize Latinos and immigrants.

The results from tonight’s Indiana race confirms one thing to us:  We must continue to focus on states with high Hispanic population where our political leverage is the best.

The Tea Party will ultimately be the demise of the GOP as the Republican Party has allowed Kris Kobach, the Heritage Foundation, American Works, Americans for Tax Reform to be the face of their Party.  The Party of “Hell No” can only get them so far and it is simply unreasonable to believe politicians cannot work from across the aisle.

Thank you, Senator Lugar.  You are the epitome of a boyscout.

Matthew Tully of Indystar.com said it best when he wrote:

For Sen. Richard Lugar, this isn’t the way it should have ended.

A revered and reasonable statesman shouldn’t lose in a low-turnout election marked by voter anger and non-voter apathy. His career shouldn’t end with an ineffective campaign that turned desperate and even sad in its final days. Most important, a lawmaker who spent decades diligently addressing big issues and tackling looming crises shouldn’t be treated as a pariah simply because he viewed the other side as fellow Americans, and not enemy combatants.

 

Senator Lugar recognized in American History as a true hero.

Fotos por Axel Hernández

Público que asistió al evento de “tequila party” en la primera fila vemos a los integrantes de Indiana’s Dream Initiative.

DeeDee Blase García, presidente y fundadora del National Tequila Party.

Javier Barrera, integrante del Latino Youth Collective de IUPUI. Explicando que un número no tiene que detenerte en tu sueño.

Tambien comparó la situacion de la gente indocumentada a la de la gente indigena en méxico, los cuales son rezagados de la sociedad.

Ryan Call, GOP chairman ‘disappointed’ party killed undocumented tuition bill

HISPANIC POLITICO writes:

The House Republicans in the State of Colorado killed the Colorado Asset bill.  This means, the State of Colorado will more than likely stay blue in 2012 for President Obama since the Tom Tancredo “affect” is negatively affecting the Colorado GOP image with Hispanic. Tom Tancredo and his Immigration Reform Caucus is responsible for not supporting former President George W. Bush’s comprehensive immigration reform plan when Republicans owned the House and Senate.  Tom Tancredo has darkened the doorsteps to the GOP house and the unintended consequences will be significant in states with high Mexican-American population.

Latino families will not vote for Republicans who do not have mercy on children.

Latinos must vote in droves in they year 2012 and send Washington a message that we are awake and paying close attention.

Republicans must support the original version of the DREAM Act via Utah’s Orrin Hatch DREAM Act bill if they want to prevent the southwestern part of the United States from turning blue.   Congressional seats were gained in 2010 due to population growth in the Southwestern part of the Nation.   Southwestern Latinos in key swing Presidential states like Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California and Texas are rejecting Senator Marco Rubio’s DREAM Act since it only offers table scraps of the Republican version of the DREAM Act Sen. Orrin Hatch introduced 10 years ago.  This is unfortunate since Marco Rubio and his family has received amnesty via the Cuban Adjustment Act.  If Republicans do not want to support their own version of the DREAM Act introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, perhaps it is time to implement a Mexican Adjustment Act that emulates the Cuban Adjustment Act.

GOP chairman ‘disappointed’ party killed undocumented tuition bill

DENVER — Colorado GOP Chairman Ryan Call, who is now focused on improving the party’s standing with Latino voters ahead of the November election, told FOX31 Denver Friday that he’s disappointed that House Republicans this week killed a measure that would have made college more affordable for undocumented students who qualify.

Senate Bill 15, dubbed “Colorado ASSET” by sponsors, died Wednesday before the House Finance Committee when all seven Republicans who form a majority on the panel held firm and voted against it.

“I would be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed in the vote,” Call told FOX31 Denver. “I am. It does make it more difficult for Republicans to talk about issues that are important to the Hispanic community when a bill like that can’t get through the legislature.”

http://kdvr.com/2012/04/27/colorado-gop-chair-disappointed-about-undocumented-tuition-vote/

Letter to Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins Concerning Latino Catholics and Youth

Open letter to Catholic President of Notre dame Rev. John Jenkins via guest blogger HISPANIC POLITICO:

President Rev. John Jenkins
400 Main Building
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Subject: Pro-Catholic and Pro-Latino Youth Senators in the Indiana 2012 Race

Dear President Rev. John Jenkins of Notre Dame:

I recently visited the University of Notre Dame on March 20, 2012, in light of our Tequila Party rally we held to “Rock the Latino Vote in support of the DREAM Act” at Indiana University of South Bend. (The Tequila Party is a Latina counter-movement to Tea Party extremism). Students from Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Indiana University, Goshen and St. Mary’s attended our successful event, and it brought revitalization to our DREAM Act youth. We registered and motivated eligible voters to be a voice for the voiceless undocumented and to keep the memory of Joaquin Luna alive. Our Indiana Tequila Party leader, Jose Alvarez, is a student of Holy Cross and has aspirations of attending Notre Dame University.

As I toured your University, one photograph in particular touched me the most – and it was the photo of the former President of Notre Dame via Father Ted

This is the picture that was presented to Pres. Obama from Notre Dame during his commencement speech. It is a picture of Father Ted Hesburgh and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hesburgh. To my amazement I later discovered this was the picture that was presented to Pres. Obama from Notre Dame during his commencement speech.

I am certain you are aware of the ill treatment of immigrants in our nation, and I appreciate the pro immigrant stances the Catholic Church has taken to this regard. The anti-immigrant sentiment reached a fevered pitch when the Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the harsh anti-immigrant SB1070 into law, and the muscle of this unneighborly legislative act came from the ousted and former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church or, colloquially, the Mormon Church).

I am a mere Mexican-American immigration activist living in the State of Arizona where there is a stronghold of Mormonism. I knew I could do only one thing as I felt utterly powerless and helpless when I saw Republican leaders support this restrictionist law, so I wrote an open letter to Mormon Prophet Thomas S. Monson. I paralleled the Mormon Missouri extinction order to Arizona’s SB 1070 anti-immigrant and self-deportation law. Just as Mormon families were driven out of the state of Missouri in early American history via mass exodus, I witnessed Arizona mass exodus and families being driven out, too.

Sacred Heart with Crucifix in Catholic Church

While I do not see the beautiful crucifixes that typically adorn Catholic Churches at Mormon Churches or Temples, I did see what some might call the “power of the cross” come into play when Mormon leadership in Salt Lake City, Utah, brought forth the principles of the Mayflower Compact via the Utah Compact (with help from Catholic leaders). The Mormon Church and members of the LDS church boldly stepped up to the plate and their leaders took a compassionate stance on immigrants in the State of Arizona – and now we are hoping members of the Catholic Church will step up to the plate in the State of Indiana, too. It is an emergency to have your help.

We have a common enemy via the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). FAIR is an anti-immigration ‘movement,’ that began by one man, John Tanton. Tanton was the organizer and President of the Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood Association between 1965-1971, and in 1975 he wrote The Case for Passive Eugenics where his letters and memos are a public collection at the Bentley Historical Library. Tanton has clear connections to Pioneer Fund and Numbers USA where Pioneer Fund’s eugenic ideas (selective breeding of humans) supported a variety of institutions that legitimize race “science”. According to the Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley states that by Dr. Tanton’s own reckoning, FAIR has received more than $1.5 million from the Pioneer Fund, a white-supremacist outfit devoted to racial purity through eugenics. And if anything disturbs the good doctor more than those Latin American hordes crossing the Rio Grande, it’s the likelihood that most of them are Catholic, or so he once told a Reuters reporter.

We believe the John Tanton network has done a damaging job in national, state and local politics. Our Latino Catholic members cannot support politicians who have ties to John Tanton and his racist organizations — which is why Latino pro immigrant activists cannot support Mitt Romney for President when he chose to receive advise from Kris Kobach (legal arm of FAIR) for his own political expediency.

We pray for your help in the Indiana Senate open primary election race. We are aware that Hispanics account for more than 70 percent of the growth in the US Catholic population since 1960, and all our eyes will be in Indiana come May.

Senator Richard (Dick) Lugar supported our Latino youth via the DREAM Act when we were desperate, down and out. Lugar embraced the epitome of Christian Compassionate views toward our children, but he is facing an opponent via Candidate Richard Mourdock who has clear ties to a racist organization via ALIPAC. We are familiar with ALIPAC since they endorsed nativist J.D. Hayworth over Senator John McCain because John McCain “once” believed in immigration reform here in Arizona. Members of ALIPAC were allowed to use disparaging remarks such as beaner, wetback and pepper belly that appeared on their site directed at Hispanics.

Is there any way you can communicate to your circle of influence the need to support politicians who have compassionate views towards our youth like Senator Lugar? I understand the University of Notre Dame cannot take a position on political races, but we are hoping you will communicate to your friends that Senator Lugar is a compassionate man who has had mercy on my people and our youth. This is an emergency. Lugar must be rewarded not punished for his compassionate views.

I pray the Catholic and compassionate voters in your state of Indiana will remember the stance of Catholic leadership and the Pope’s views with regard to the treatment of immigrants and our neighbors. We hope you know about the aches and suffering we feel in our hearts due to these extreme hate laws. Time is of the essence, and I hope a miracle takes place in the State of Indiana in much the same way we witnessed them in Arizona and in Utah. We are hoping for a miracle, because that is all we have to hold on to, and I hope you take measures that will cause another one to happen.

Thank you for your time – particularly when our deadline is May 8, 2012, with regard to the Indiana Open Primaries.

Con cariño,

DeeDee Garcia Blase
Co-President, National Tequila Party Movement

Shirl Mora James,
Lead Co-President, National Tequila Party Movement
Civil Rights and Immigration Lawyer

Above) Jose Alvarez, Indiana Tequila Party Leader in the Basilica Sacred Heart at Notre Dame University on 20 March 2012.

Supreme Court SB 1070 law decision will force small businesses to react the way Arizona small business reacted in 2011

GUEST BLOGGER HISPANIC POLITICO:

Supreme Court “appears” to favor Arizona law – setting stage for business owners to reject protectionist and restrictionist views

The Supreme Court is expected to decide the case, Arizona v. United States, by late June.

I believe this case will now FORCE businesses and business owners to vote their pocket book this year. It would behoove business owners via the hotel

Arizona restrictionist laws hurt hotel, construction, restaurant, and agricultural industries.

industry, the construction industry, the restaurant industry and the agricultural industry to reject restrictionist ideas that will affect their bottom line and dollar. We witnessed business owners who suffered in Arizona, Georgia and Alabama, as a result of protectionist ideas which created mass exodus eventually killing pro growth development projects.

Simply put — ultimately, it is a matter of economics and getting business owners to vote their pocket books during 2012. Either they will support pro growth and pro business ideas, or they will support protectionist and restrictionist ideas that will hurt their profits. And it is important for everyone to know Mitt Romney has received advise and the endorsement of Kris Kobach who is the King of protectionist and restrictionist policies because Kobach was legal architect behind SB1070 type of laws.

In an unsure time like this, it is important for us to learn from history.

Arizona business history points me to believe American voters and business owners will vote their pocket books in an effort to reject restrictionist and protectionist views that killed their business as witnessed in Arizona, Georgia and Alabama.

For instance, a 2011 historic vote occurred on Saint Patrick’s Day, a religious holiday that is remembered and symbolic for Saint Patrick driving the snakes from Ireland. Several Arizona lawmakers voted against harsh anti-immigrant laws (via SB 1308: Birthright citizenship, SB 1309: Birthright citizenship, SB 1405: Hospitals checking legal status, SB 1407: Schools checking legal status, and SB 1611: Immigration omnibus bills) that were supported by Pearce & Kobach Co. on St. Patrick’s Day. Arizona lawmakers chose to listen to their Arizona business community. The mass exodus and reversal of pro growth and pro business ideas brought Arizona lawmakers to their knees when they saw who the driving force of America’s economic engine really is. Small business is the economic engine, and without small businesses and entrepreneurialism, our economy would die. The snakes in Arizona represented the old Dixiecrat thinking people who embrace isolationism, restrictionism and protectionism. Isolationists work contrary to pro growth ideas.

In 2011, Arizona lawmakers chose not to continue to create criminal law, because they were more interested in solutions. They represent the politicians of our future, not of our past. In 2010, a harsh anti-immigration bill via SB 1070 was introduced, and the message some of these lawmakers have sent to Washington is this: the federal government must fix the broken immigration system.

In either case, the federal government will soon be forced to fix the broken immigration system because we need new tax payers that will sustain our American economy, and we must never support taxation without representation. Our government needs the additional tax revenues that new immigrants generate in order to sustain the burgeoning entitlement programs baby boomers require as they continue to retire. By developing a reasonable legal immigration plan, we create a system where immigrants share American tax burdens as they continue to contribute millions of dollars into our tax coffers. New immigrants sharing our tax burdens will help discourage our government from increasing taxes, because under the current system these entitlement programs will drain all federal revenues within 15 years.

From the Huffington Post:

The heated controversy over Arizona’s law has been driven largely by critics’ view that the law was borne of anti-Hispanic prejudice and invites racial profiling — despite language in the law prohibiting such practices. But Wednesday’s case concerned the more technical doctrine of federal preemption of state laws, which is based on the Constitution’s supremacy clause. Indeed, at the start of Verrilli’s argument, Roberts announced that “no part of your argument has to do with racial or ethnic profiling.”

Verrilli nevertheless slipped into this territory after Sotomayor urged him to list the reasons why the law should be preempted. He named first the “problem of harassment,” citing Arizona’s “2 million Latinos, of whom only 400,000 at most are there unlawfully.”

“Sounds like racial profiling to me,” Scalia retorted in an attempt to shut down that line of argument.

The Supreme Court seemed to take more kindly to Verrilli’s argument that imprisoning undocumented immigrants under S.B. 1070′s criminal sanctions for being present in Arizona or seeking work in the state would adversely affect the U.S. government’s control of foreign relations. And during Clement’s presentation, Roberts raised an eyebrow at Arizona’s “imposing some significantly greater sanctions” on undocumented employees than those provided in the federal law, which focuses on punishing employers.

…..A 4-4 vote did not seem at all likely on Wednesday, however, as majorities of the justices leaned toward blocking the criminal sanctions while allowing the “papers please” and warrantless arrest provisions to go into effect, provided detainees are not held longer than they would be in the absence of S.B. 1070.

While that outcome would be a partial victory for Arizona and the states that have followed its lead, such a ruling would also leave those laws vulnerable to potential and currently pending challenges by civil rights groups on behalf of individuals who allege violations of equal protection and due process protections, among other constitutional injuries.

Protectionism on Immigration Will Hurt Our Economy More than We Realize

(From the Economist.com): "FOR all its current economic woes, America remains a beacon of entrepreneurialism. Between 1996 and 2004 an average of 550,000 small businesses were created every month. One factor is a fairly open immigration policy. Vivek Wadhwa of Duke University notes that 52% of Silicon Valley start-ups were founded by immigrants, up from around a quarter ten years ago. But since 2001 the threat of terrorism and rising xenophobia has made immigration harder. Today more than 1m people are waiting to be granted legal status as permanent residents. Yet only 85,000 visas a year are allocated to the sort of skilled workers that might go on to found successful businesses of their own."

Arizona Immigration Activist and foundress of SOMOS REPUBLICANS discusses Supreme Court Arizona SB 1070 hearing

Hispanic Politico guest blogger:

As an immigration activist living in Arizona, I wrote the following opinon with regard to the upcoming SB1070 hearing that will be heard in the Supreme Court.

The GOP Cannot Hide the Arizona SB 1070 ‘Large Elephant’ in the Room

By DeeDee Garcia Blase

The Supreme Court hearing regarding Arizona’s SB1070 will be a vote mover in the southwestern part of the United States. The scab of an old wound will be ripped off and exposed once again within our community as the issue comes to the forefront again. Instead of hanging out at the courthouse protesting against SB1070, we will protest via our vote during the upcoming 2012 Presidential elections. We must identify in a realistic manner what the best option will be for us that is directly hurting and affecting our community.

According to ABC News:

Kris Kobach, a key drafter of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, will be in Washington on Wednesday to hear the Supreme Court discuss the legality of the tough state measure that empowers local police to enforce federal immigration laws. Kobach, who worked closely with former Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce in crafting the 2010 law, said he stays in close touch with the Mitt Romney campaign.

These days, we are witnessing multiple-choice Mitt Romney make moves as he tries to disassociate himself from Kris Kobach. Many within our Latino community believe it is too little and too late – specifically in the southwestern part of our Country where most of the Mexican-American population resides.

Unfortunately for Romney, he has made too many damning statements when he chose to align himself with Pete Wilson and Kris Kobach. Other known extremists such as the Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, and the ousted former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce have also gotten behind him. This does not come as a surprise to us since we witnessed nativist and former Congressman Tom Tancredo endorse Romney in 2007. In fact, Romney designated controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio as his Arizona Chair when he ran against Senator John McCain during the 2008 GOP primaries.

We now live in an Information Age where Americans receive their news via YouTube, the internet and social networking – and as a result of the digital footprint now made available to us, the Karl Rovian way is becoming more of an ineffective antiquated strategy. We are now able to file away and organize flip-flops when it comes to stances politicians have taken regarding government policy.

Elis Foley with the Huffington Post writes:

Romney has said repeatedly that he supports the Arizona’s right to pass such a law and would drop a federal lawsuit against it were he elected — perhaps not an explicit endorsement, but one that implies he supports the law, at least for Arizona.

Romney also has advocated for what he called “self-deportation,” or making things difficult for undocumented immigrants until they decide to leave, one of the central tenets of the Arizona law. One of his informal advisers on immigration, SB 1070 architect and Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach, supports the law as a model for nationwide enforcement.

“[Self-deportation] is in SB 1070,” Pearce said.

As the GOP scrambles desperately for an effort to woo the Latino vote in light of an election cycle, many of us will remember that no leading Republican

Senate Bill 1070 Signed Into Law By Arizona Governor Jan Brewer who recently endorsed Mitt Romney for 2012 President

organizations stood strong against SB1070 in 2010 when the immigration issue reached a fevered pitch except for one — SOMOS REPUBLICANS. SOMOS was widely known for being the only Republican organization in the nation that stood against the anti-immigrant SB 1070 law when Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed the bill into action. Latinos were ultimately left to fend for themselves in Arizona. Several conservative leaning groups (including Hispanic Republican groups) supported the Arizona governor.

The Republican Party lacked foresight and leadership with regard to an issue near and dear to Latinos, and now they must face the music and become the Party of personal responsibility. The RNC turned a blind eye to several Republican lawmakers who supported anti-immigrant policies. They also turned a blind eye to the many hostile remarks regarding the treatment of immigrants. RNC leadership was nowhere to be found, until now because now they want our vote.

While it is true that President Obama did not give us immigration reform during his first year as President, Latinos must go back in American history and figure out why. We need to remind ourselves that there have been no recent American Presidents who tackled comprehensive immigration reform within their first term. Former President Ronald Reagan did not give immigrant amnesty until he was re-elected as President. Former President George W. Bush did not address comprehensive immigration reform until his second term because he did not believe there was an immigration problem to begin with. The only President that supported immigrant-friendly policies during his first term as President was Benjamin Harrison and he did not get re-elected for a second term.

Should it be a complete surprise to us that President Obama has not confronted immigration during his first term? The immigration issue has become one of the most toxic issues in our time since the Republican Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo launched his restrictionist Immigration Reform Caucus. Meanwhile, myth-maker (R-TX) Congressman Lamar Smith has been busy writing opinion after opinion falsely accusing President Obama as a supporter of amnesty even though he knows Obama has deported more immigrants than Bush. The anti-immigrant sentiment continued to mount when Florida’s Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio stated Ronald Reagan erred in supporting the 1986 amnesty for immigrants (despite the Cuban amnesty afforded to his own family).

So what options are Latinos left with as we revisit the painful wounds of SB 1070 during 2012?

Here are some options:

1) We can take our chances with a President who is going to enter his second term as President because he no longer has to worry about getting re-elected

2) Or, we could gamble away our vote with a candidate who has solid ties to Kris Kobach, (the architect behind many of these anti-immigrant and DREAM Act laws), Pete Wilson, Jan Brewer, and Russell Pearce who are all promoters of the infamous self-deportation law via SB 1070.

Let us be honest — I do not believe a President will ever address immigration reform within his first term. Just the same, I do not believe Latinos are willing to gamble with a candidate that has made deals with devils via Pete Wilson, Kris Kobach, Joe Arpaio’s posse, and the vast majority of the Archie Bunker wing.

Latinos react to Senator Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney DREAM Act proposal

This is in response to Rubio’s and Romney’s DREAM Act proposal.  No call has to be raised and it is reasonable to ask Republicans to support Republican Orrin Hatch’s version of the DREAM Act.

From (guest blogger) the National Tequila Party Movement (based out of Arizona).

For Immediate Release

Phoenix, AZ — Recently, there has been much discussion from Senator Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney regarding the DREAM Act.  Both were against it and now seem to want to support a version of a DREAM Act that creates a permanent underclass in light of a key election year and as they seek the Latino 2012 vote.  The Tequila Party will not stand and allow this issue to be used as a continued political football, therefore, if Sen. Marco Rubio and Romney really want to support the DREAM Act — they must support Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) sponsored version of S.1545 — the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.  Anything short of Hatch’s bill will be recognized as a divisive tactic and as a means to limit political power and issues supporting taxation without representation.  According to Ron Hayduk, Professor of Political Science City University of New York (CUNY), immigrant taxation without representation not only challenges the legitimacy of America’s mantle of democratic governance but also provides a rationale and opportunity for organizing a progressive political majority.

Starting May 1, 2012, Lead Co-President and also a Civil Rights and immigration lawyer — Shirl Mora James, will begin a DREAM Act training video series that will keep DREAM Act activists and national Latino leaders UNITED and strong on this issue.  The Tequila Party is fully aware of this issue becoming more and more politicized and the Mexican-American matriarchy will not allow our children and our youth to be taken advantage of anymore.  We have already lost one of our own children — Joaquin Luna, when he took his own life because he felt he had no hope, and eligible Mexican-American voters in the Southwest will not allow his death to be in vain.

Lastly, if we do not see both Rubio and Romney obtaining solid commitments from GOP Senators from all high Hispanic populated states before the beginning of the 2012 autumn season (with Rubio taking the lead) we will consider their discussions of the DREAM Act mere lip service.  If junior Senator Rubio is unable to secure commitments from GOP Senators this year, perhaps he can support a Mexican Adjustment Act that would emulate the Cuban Adjustment Act.

Newt Gingrich: Last Reagan Conservative Standing (Literally)

From Newt Campaign:

Dear Friend,

As you might have heard, Rick Santorum just suspended his presidential campaign.

Rick is a good friend and I commend him on the strong campaign he ran, standing up for the conservative values that we hold dear. Callista and I wish him, his wife Karen, and his entire family all the best.

This has been a campaign full of amazing ups and downs. And through it all, you’ve been standing with me fighting for bold, conservative breakthroughs to change Washington and rebuild the America we love.

As the last remaining conservative in this race, we urgently need your financial support today. We have set an ambitious goal of 12,000 donations by midnight tonight. Will you donate $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford to help us reach this goal?

Time after time we’ve defied the political odds during this campaign, proving that the American people are hungry for a candidate with bold ideas and the courage to take the fight to President Obama.

I believe this year’s primary represents a big choice about the very soul of the Republican Party, and whether it will remain the party of smaller government, lower taxes, and conservative reform.

Over 178,000 people so far have donated to this vision, and I need your contribution today to help unite conservatives around this campaign of bold conservative breakthroughs.

Thank you,

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Finally! Right-to-life group sends letter to senators on prenatal bill.

Undocumented babies are still babies, too.  Let this be a loud sound alarm to anti-Latino Republicans who are pushing changes to our 14th amendment and prenatal bills that will counter the pro life movement.

Nebraska Right to Life sent a letter Monday to six senators who have provided leadership on pro-life bills in the past but who now have come to a divide with the powerful pro-life organization on a bill that would restore prenatal care for babies with undocumented mothers.

Gov. Dave Heineman has promised to veto the bill (LB599), which is expected to get its final reading Wednesday. It provides prenatal coverage to low-income women, many of them undocumented, who lost Medicaid coverage for prenatal care in 2010.

In an open letter, Right to Life executive director Julie Schmit-Albin told Sens. Tony Fulton, Beau McCoy, Pete Pirsch, Lydia Brasch, Chris Langemeier and Dave Bloomfield — all of whom have received the organization’s endorsement in past or present elections — this: “It is sad and alarming that we have come to this point where some of the major pro-life leaders in the Legislature are choosing to put the illegal immigration issue and who pays for what, over the life and health of babies in the womb.”

It is likely, she told them, that past legislative transcripts would show comments from all of them about the “necessity of protecting innocent human life from fertilization on.”

Other senators who have identified themselves as pro-life, and who have voted in favor of the bill in two rounds of debate, also may be conflicted over illegal immigration issues, she said.

“(But) they clearly put the life and health of all unborn children ahead of the immigration issue.”

Read more: http://journalstar.com/news/unicameral/right-to-life-group-sends-letter-to-senators-on-prenatal/article_7dfe647b-8395-5bb1-b1b5-d4767e4065eb.html#ixzz1rhFdvFFc

Maricopa County Sheriff Candidate Mike Stauffer Reacts to Andrew Thomas Getting Disbarred

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