mojo
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Post by mojo on Jul 25, 2013 9:52:24 GMT -7
www.texastribune.org/2013/07/24/city-el-paso-lacks-voice-hispanic-caucus/EL PASO — When El Paso voters elected Robert “Beto” O’Rourke to Congress last year, his supporters said they chose a fresh and progressive voice to champion issues critical to the border community. But what they lost was a seat on an influential caucus whose members have recently met with President Obama on issues like immigration reform, border security and health care. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a 26-member group established in 1976 and currently chaired by U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, D-Edinburg, includes as its goals “voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,” according to the organization’s mission statement. It also includes task forces on civil rights, education and labor, and diversity and inclusion. O’Rourke, whose nickname is popular among Latinos, is not a member because he lacks Hispanic heritage. The exclusion comes despite the fact that O’Rourke — who beat eight-term House member and former CHC Chairman Silvestre Reyes — represents a district that is 80 percent Hispanic and whose voting-age population is 77.6 Hispanic, according to 2010 U.S. census figures. Asked what he thought about the caucus’s rules, O’Rourke said he respected its bylaws and declined to comment any further.
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terri2
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Post by terri2 on Jul 25, 2013 11:35:19 GMT -7
Never have understood the "Hispanic" (or Black) this and that. It seems, that to be fair, there should be an Irish, Italian, Asian, Filipino, Hebrew, Indian, Native American, Russian, German, Pacific Islander, Middle Easterner, "Tiger Woods ".... what happened to simply AMERICAN? What? Not gonna allow the pot to melt? Just keep it a rolling boil?
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Post by Saint on Jul 26, 2013 8:45:10 GMT -7
Never have understood the "Hispanic" (or Black) this and that. It seems, that to be fair, there should be an Irish, Italian, Asian, Filipino, Hebrew, Indian, Native American, Russian, German, Pacific Islander, Middle Easterner, "Tiger Woods ".... what happened to simply AMERICAN? What? Not gonna allow the pot to melt? Just keep it a rolling boil? because when you are equals, you can't get preferential treatment, and scream racist everytime you don't get your way.
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