Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), now running for Senate in a state where the electorate is 13% Latino, has been saying a lot of nice things about immigration reform.  Immigration reform has consistently been a top priority for Colorado’s Latino voters, and so Gardner has been going around claiming that... Continue »
All eyes this election season are on the country’s super-competitive Senate races, which will determine the oft-debated question as to whether Democrats will retain the upper chamber after November.  One of these all-important Senate races is in Colorado, where Republican challenger Cory Gardner has been putting up a small... Continue »
BuzzFeed: Republicans: Immigration’s More Likely To Happen If We Take The Senate Bloomberg: Kentucky, Where the Immigration Reform Debate Goes to Die Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky): Grimes mum on pulling immigration ad; non-committal about voting for Reid as majority leader VOXXI: Kentucky Democratic candidate sounds more like a Republican in... Continue »
Latino Decisions with NCLR Action Fund released a poll of Latino voters in North Carolina today — you can see the results here.  Forty percent of those surveyed indicated that they would support the incumbent, Democrat Kay Hagan in the Senate race, while 15% preferred Republican Thom Tillis.  But 45% of... Continue »
Republicans running for Senate this year — Tom Cotton, Thom Tillis, but especially Scott Brown — have been running fear-mongering campaigns so egregious that they have become borderline farcical.  As Greg Sargent highlights today at the Washington Post, Scott Brown has managed to twist the specters of ebola, ISIS, and... Continue »
According to a new video released by Arizona DREAMer Erika Andiola and covered by Buzzfeed, Teodulo Sanchez was heading home from work last Friday when he was pulled over and repeatedly threatened by a Buckeye, Arizona police officer. As the police officer during the encounter said: Weapons? No weapons in your... Continue »
Wall Street Journal: Grimes’s Immigration Ad Attacks McConnell on ‘Amnesty’ Politico: Alison Lundergan Grimes hit on immigration, from left Huffington Post: Progressive Group MoveOn Demands Alison Lundergan Grimes Remove Immigration Ad Think Progress: Democratic Senate Nominee Fearmongers Over ‘Amnesty’ Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky): Grimes announces $4.9 million fundraising tally as... Continue »
The US Chamber of Commerce is supposed to be a key conservative supporter of immigration reform — their President, Tom Donohue, has repeatedly spoken in favor of reform with a path to citizenship, and the Chamber made headlines last year when it reached a breakthrough accord with the AFL-CIO that helped... Continue »
Republicans Candidates – Gardner, Beauprez and Coffman – Would Create Lasting Damage on Immigration and Other Top Issues As ballots are mailed to voters across the state today, Latino leaders in Colorado held a press conference to highlight how important it is that Latino voters turn out in record... Continue »
October 17, 2014 update: Grimes has announced she will be taking the ad down: Grimes campaign tells immigration-reform advocates she will pull offending ad and not use ‘the i word’ – http://t.co/JwZr846FPL #kysen #CIR — Joe Sonka (@joesonka) October 17, 2014 UPDATE: A number of progressive and get-out-the-vote groups have... Continue »