Archive for December 9th, 2007
Liveblogging the Univision Republican Debate
8:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| Miami| Politics| TV| Venezuela · Comments Off
9 Dec 2007
On to Latin America, everyone in the audience clapped upon mention of the failure of Hugo Chavez’s constitutional reform.
How would you deal with Chavez? Ron Paul was booed when he said that he would talk with Chavez. He said we created the Chavez’s and Castro’s of the world by butting into their affairs. Mitt Romney said that Chavez is no friend of the U.S. but that Chavez isn’t the people of Venezuela and vice-versa. Giuliani agreed with Mitt Romney. Giuliani said that Chavez is acting like a dictator and should be treated as one.
Liveblogging the Univision Republican Debate
8:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Miami| Politics| TV · Comments Off
9 Dec 2007Education: Public school reform should be a priority, how to do that. Thompson said that the responsibility of fixing education needs to be on the local level. McCain said that choice and competition are the key. Poor teachers should be fired and poor schools should be closed. Sounds like he wants to privatize education. Romney said we have a good model already. Teaching children English is a key to success as is testing based on standards. Better teachers should be payed better (merit pay).
Huckabee, how to stop high Latino dropout rate? Huckabee said many kids fail because they are bored. That we need not just math and English but also music and art. Giuliani reminded everyone that he’s a result of Catholic schools (and Jesus is still kicking himself over it I’m sure). Giuliani is using his example to promote school choice.
Live Blogging Univision Republican Debate
7:40 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Miami| Politics| TV · 6 Comments
9 Dec 2007All candidates said that there was no risk in coming to the Univision debate.
Finally, the English only question. McCain said that English should be the official language and that all who come here should learn English and he will help them. Ron Paul said that bashing bilingualism is wrong but the official language should be English.
Next question: What should happen to over 12 million undocumented people in the U.S. Giuliani said that the illegal immigration needs to stop first. He says we need a virtual and a real wall, a national id. Once we do that then people can get their ids, pay their taxes and if they can’t do that then they should get kicked out. Huckabee agreed with Giuliani on the border issue. Undocumented people need to go back to where they came from and begin the legal process, that is go to the back of the line.
Liveblogging the Univision Republican Debate
7:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Miami| Politics| TV · Comments Off
9 Dec 2007And we’re off, hopefully the simultaneous translation won’t throw me off like it did during the Democratic debate. I wonder how many English dominant people (Latino or not) are tuning in on CC3? I know that many gringos who watched the Univision Democratic debate and blogged it, kind of missed the main points. Mitt Romney, Giulianni, Ron Paul, and McCain have a huge fan club in the audience. Who is Duncan Hunter? I really know little about that guy.
First question: Why has there been a drop in Latino support of Republicans? There was a huge delay in getting the translation. Giulianni didn’t answer the question. Romney said Latinos have a string connection to Latinos since so many of us are in the military, so many of us are business people, and so many of us are people are faith. Huckabee said that Republicans obviously haven’t communicated well with Latinos. He focused on the disparities in education and health between Latinos and non-Latinos. McCain basically said that Latinos were anti-abortion, religious, and pro-military. Not this Latina. McCain also said that just because of Republican immigration stance many Latinos have written off Republicans.
Liveblogging the Univision Republican Debate
6:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Miami| TV · Comments Off
9 Dec 2007We covered the Democrat version of the Univision debate and tonight almost all the Republicans take center stage at the University of Miami (Tom Tancredo said the debate, held in Spanish with the candidates answering in English, was an insult). What will likely be an insult will be the pandering the candidates will no doubt engage in. I can’t wait to hear how they handle the immigration issue as well es education, and health care.
The debate begins at 7 pm (est) and can be seen on your local Univision channel (no where else because that’s how Univision rolls).
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