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McCain Takes Florida. Giuliani to Take a Bow.
8:11 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Florida|US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
30 Jan 2008
With 99% of the vote counted, John McCain led Mitt Romney by 36% to 31% in the Florida priamaries held yesterday, meaning all 57 Republican delegates go to him. All the results are as follows:
Republicans
John McCain: 36%
Mitt Romney: 31%
Rudy Giuliani: 15%
Mike Huckabee: 13%
Ron Paul: 3%
Democrats
Hillary Clinton: 50%
Barack Obama: 33%
John Edwards: 14%
Former NYC Mayor, Rudolph Giulini, who had placed all his campaigning eggs in the Florida basket, is expected to withdraw from from the race and support John McCain.
For Giuliani…..
Alberto Gonzales Gets Paid 40k to Get Heckled at University of Florida
8:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Controversia|Florida|Justice|Politics · Comments Off
21 Nov 2007The man keeps on keeping the Latino man down. Pobre former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is just trying to earn an honest living speaking about what he knows best.
Actually you have to hand it to the protesters for their creativity. The visual of the “prisoner” in the orange jumpsuit and hood next to Gonzales is priceless and is anyone else missing the irony that Sr. Gonzales is speaking at a series called Accents?
Anti-Chavez Billboard Gets a Second Look Because of Word Choice
8:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Florida|Venezuela · 10 Comments
18 Oct 2007
A billboard put up and paid for by self-proclaimed “true American” John McCombs in Florida is drawing fire but not for reasons you might think. It’s not that Bay Minette has a strong pro-Hugo Chavez lobby, it’s that the billboard’s choice of language is offensive. Don’t Buy Gas from This Ass is the most intelligent response McCombs could come up with after Chavez said Bush was the devil and made nice with Iran. But locals aren’t happy with seeing “ass” everyday. They have complained to the city about the sign to try and get it removed. Just as smart is the placement of the billboard. It’s right near a BP station.
Via / WKRG
Save Juan (No Save Two or More)
8:22 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Florida|Immigration|Politics · Comments Off
1 Aug 2007I think Juan Gomez should be allowed to stay in the U.S. and finish his studies here if he so chooses. But I’m getting a little tired of politicians using poster boy model minority Latinos as a way of avoiding dealing with the real issues surrounding immigration “reform” and yes racism. After all what red-blooded American wouldn’t want to call Juan his own. Juan writes:
On the verge of our 2nd and 3rd birthdays, my bother Alejandro Gomez and I, Juan Sebastian Gomez, were brought to a country which symbolized success and the pursuit of happiness. After 17 years, America is all we know. Both of us are fearful of a future in Colombia. Colombia would be as foreign as China to us. Both of us have lost most of our Spanish speaking skills. My brother and I are American no matter what a piece of paper tells us. Our whole family has worked hard in order to better ourselves in the country we call home. Academically, we have both strived and succeeded with hopes that our accomplishments would outshine our immigration status. All of our hard work will hopefully allow us to continue living and contributing to this wonderful country. Our hopes were in the passage of the Dream Act and becoming the first Dream Children.
He can’t even speak Spanish! He’s almost like you and just look at all the nice white people who defend Juan (video after the jump).
Lethal injection of Latino tortuous, not instantaneous
12:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Florida|Justice · 3 Comments
15 Dec 2006
Death by lethal injection is supposed to be one of most “painless” methods of execution of prisoners condemned to this fate. But this apparently was not the case in the execution of Ángel Nieves Díaz, a Latino prisoner in Florida. It took two injections to kill him and witnesses claim that his death was anything but painless:
The execution yesterday of Puerto Rican Angel Nieves Díaz has revived controversy over the use of lethal injection as a method of execution for prisoners in the state of Florida, as the the prisoner needed two doses of the lethal cocktail, which prolonged his agony for a full 34 minutes.Nieves Díaz, sentenced to death for a 1979 murder, took 34 minutes to die because, according to the state’s prison department, he suffered a kidney condition that impeded his body from metabolizing chemical subtances quickly.
Anti-Gay Republican Latino Leading Republican Party
10:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Cuba|Florida|GLBT · Comments Off
14 Nov 2006
Mel Martinez, the Florida senator of Cuban background, was tapped to be the Republican National Committee general chairman yesterday. Now you’d think that after the major loss of power in the Congress a week ago, the GOP would move more towards the center and try to fit as many people as they can into that party tent but by choosing Martinez, the party is making a major move further right.
Martinez has been on the record opposing Republican senator John McCain’s states’ rights stance on the marriage issue, saying, “It isn’t good enough to say, ‘Leave it up to the states. If we leave it up to the states, we will see the erosion of marriage that we’ve seen by activist courts, which we otherwise will not see if we protect the institution of marriage at the federal level.”- He attacked his 2004 Republican primary opponent for supporting hate-crimes legislation, accusing him of catering to the “radical homosexual lobby.”
Via / The Advocate
Image Via / Immigration Reform Now
Latino family murdered in Florida
1:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Florida|Labor · 2 Comments
13 Oct 2006
Authorities are investigating the gruesome murder of a Latino family in St. Lucie, central Florida.
Two adults and two children were found shot to death Friday along an isolated stretch of a Florida highway, with the woman clutching the two children in an apparent attempt to protect them, authorities said.Florida Highway Patrol troopers got a call Friday morning after someone spotted the bodies of a man, woman, boy and girl off the southbound shoulder of the highway, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said.
The adults were both in their 20s or 30s, and the children appeared to be between the ages of 4 and 6, Sheriff Ken Mascara said. All had been shot multiple times, he said.
“It appears to be a Hispanic family,” Mascara said. “The female had both the children clutched in a defensive mode, in an attempt to protect them. It gives the appearance that they were a family traveling.”
The bodies were found relatively close to the freeway, and no car was located, though authorities say that tire marks show that a car was driven off the road. At the time of this post, the victims’ identities remain unknown.
Via / International Herald Tribune
Was Orlando Burglary a Hate Crime?
12:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Florida|race · Comments Off
15 Sep 2006
When does a crime become a hate crime? That is the question surrounding a burglary in Orlando, Florida. Not only was the Aguirre family robbed of their car and $8,000 worth of items, they were also victims of hate messages on the walls and doors of their home.
“I was upset because it was something that I can’t believe,” family member Lisa Martinez said. “They drew on the doors. They said, ‘I took your car, I’m a white boy and I hate Puerto Ricans.’”
Additionally the criminals poured bleach into the familiy fish tank, killing all the fish.
Via / Local6.com
Florida gets an “F” in History
1:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Education|Florida|history · Comments Off
6 Jun 2006
The Miami Herald has an article today about how, despite the very strong Latin American and Spanish origins of the state of Florida (and it’s huge Latino population), the state’s educational system is flunking out on teaching kids about Latin American history — and any other history:
Despite the state’s burgeoning Hispanic population, an education think tank gives Florida an F when it comes to teaching students about the history of Latin America — or any other civilization.The failing grade comes because the state’s standards for teaching world history are so vague, concludes the study by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, which didn’t hesitate to castigate the state.
”Florida’s approach is so superficial that it is, for all intents and purposes, worthless,” said the report, which was released Monday. “There’s nothing glowing in the Sunshine State’s standards, and little worth redeeming.”
Kids Might Learn Spanish the Easy Way
3:43 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bilingualism|children|Education|Florida · 1 Comment
4 Nov 2005
Florida Senator Les Miller has proposed a bill that would require all students in the state from grades K – 2 have mandatory Spanish lessons starting in 2007.
First of all, I think this is a great idea. The article goes on to outline that the bill doesn’t really show where the money or the teachers would come from – that the idea is cool, but no one is sure how to implement it.
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