TO: Ruben Navarrette FROM: Frank Sharry RE: Thanks for the shout out Hey Ruben, I read your nationally-syndicated column today. Thanks for the shout out to America’s Voice and me. As is always the case, your column is a must-read. I don’t always agree with you, but especially during...
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Imagine how different the presidential race would be if Mitt Romney had not embraced hardline policies on immigration during the Republican primaries. With interviews on Univisión and Telemundo and a speech at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce this week, Romney might have had a lot more of substance...
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Sep 20, 2012
Cross-Posted at Jack and Jill Politics: Does Mitt Romney even hear himself when he talks? By now we all know about the new video Mother Jones released of Mitt Romney writing off 47% of Americans by calling us “dependents” who would vote for Obama no matter what. The punditocracy...
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As we reported, yesterday a U.S. District judge lifted an injunction against the “show me your papers” provision of Arizona’s SB 1070 anti-immigrant law, allowing this draconian provision to go into effect. Many agree that the implementation of this provision will involve rampant racial profiling of Latinos in Arizona. No doubt,...
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UPDATE: CNN updated its article with a statement from the Romney campaign: Asked for clarification, a spokesman for the Romney campaign said Romney and Kobach have, in fact, met before at campaign events – but not in formal policy meetings. The aide said that in Monday’s radio interview, Romney...
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Follow Frank Sharry on Twitter: www.twitter.com/franksharry Boston, you have a problem. Your guy, Mitt Romney, is losing badly with Latinos and it could cost him the election. Battleground states such as Nevada, Colorado, Florida and even Virginia are likely to swing Obama’s way if he keeps his current 66 percent –...
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President Obama, next week, you and Mitt Romney will sit down for interviews with Univision’s Jorge Ramos. No doubt, immigration will be a topic during both discussions. We’d like to encourage you to have a better answer than the one you gave to Agencia EFE yesterday, as reported by FOX News Latino:...
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It looks like Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is in the fight of his political life. After five terms and a decade of being handily reelected to Congress, Steve King has been redistricted into Iowa’s new fourth Congressional district, where he is being challenged by the state’s former first lady,...
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