Posts Tagged ‘Democratic Presidential Candidates’
Obama Calls for End of Cuba Embargo
7:46 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba| Politics · Comments Off
21 Aug 2007
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has already taken heat for saying that he would meet with Cuban (among other) leaders. iNow Obama is taking a stand on the longstanding Cuban embargo.
Obama’s campaign said Monday that, if elected, the Illinois senator would lift restrictions imposed by the Bush administration and allow Cuban-Americans to visit their relatives more frequently, as well as ease limits on the amount of money they can send to their families.”Senator Obama feels that the Bush administration has made a humanitarian and a strategic blunder,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in an e-mail. “His concern is that this has had a profoundly negative impact on the Cuban people, making them more dependent on the Castro regime, thus isolating them from the transformative message carried by Cuban-Americans.”
Bill Richardson and Women in the Oldest Profession
11:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics · 1 Comment
20 Aug 2007
Latino Democratic presidential candidate and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson lost one of his campaign aides when it was revealed that he used to work for a legal brothel in Nevada and was wanted on a felony arrest warrant in California.
Kristian Forland, the campaign’s eastern Nevada field director, is being sought by Los Angeles County authorities for failure to appear on four counts of writing bad checks. Forland also was arrested twice, once last year and again last month, in his home of Elko, Nev., on a similar bad check charge out of Las Vegas.Forland also was investigated by Elko police after women working at Mona’s Ranch, a legal brothel, complained he was shorting them on their pay. An investigator described Forland as “at best a manager of the property,” according to a June 2006 police report obtained by the AP.
Via / USA Today
Dem Presidential Candidate GLBT Forum
8:24 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · GLBT| Politics · 4 Comments
10 Aug 2007Last night the Democratic candidates for president faced off in a nationally televised forum directed at gay voters and broadcast live via the cable Logo network. The forum sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, surprised no one. The hot button issue (besides what was Melissa Etheridge doing there?) was gay marriage with the front runners making it clear that they support civil unions but not full fledged marriage. Gov. Bill Richardson stuck his foot in his mouth again surrounding GLBT issue. He did apologize for his use of the word maricon on the Don Imus show. According the Pam’s House Blend live blogging of the event:
He apologized, he said, but he said that people should look at his words, not his actions. He said he was the first governor to have trans-inclusive protections under the law. He talked about his efforts to expand domestic partnerships and how he has added LGBT members to his cabinet. He regrets what he said but again asks that people judge him by what he has done for the LGBT community.
Bill Richardson : Not Such a Latino/Gay Friendly Candidate
4:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · GLBT| MBAPBSAllAmericaDem| Politics · 5 Comments
11 Jul 2007
Would you vote for a candidate who used the gay slur, the “f” word? It certainly didn’t help the career of Grey’s Anatomy actor Isaiah Washington. What if the slur were in a different language, say Spanish? Well Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson used the word maricón in an exchange over a year ago with shock jock (and racist) Don Imus and now Richardson is scrambling to apologize.
The New Mexico governor used the term as part of a joke instigated by talk show host Don Imus during a March 29, 2006, segment of his “Imus in the Morning” syndicated radio program, simulcast on MSNBC. “Bernard on the staff here has been claiming you’re not really Hispanic so– that you’re just claiming that for some sort of advantage or something,” Imus said to Richardson, tongue clearly in cheek. “You can just answer this yes or no and this will answer that question. Would you agree that Bernard is a maricón?”
Without missing a beat, Richardson replied in Spanish, “Yo creo que Bernardo, sí — es un maricón si él piensa que yo no soy hispano. [General laughter] Was that good enough or what? [General laughter]”
“That’s good enough for me,” Imus replied.
Post Debate Thoughts : Latinos the Minority Minority to Pander To
10:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · MBAPBSAllAmericaDem · 3 Comments
28 Jun 2007
There is discussion here as to the debate/forum. Many issues were not covered or were barely touched upon. If this really was a forum aimed at the people of color community why were there no women’s issues discussed? Sure these issues were touched upon in the areas of educating our children but what about reproductive rights and domestic violence, two huge problems plaguing women of color. Also the big story of the day was immigration and why was that not mentioned. Some bloggers are suggesting that if anyone needed to bring the issue up it should have been Ruben Navarrette, as the token Latino on the panel, or that Bill Richardson, who proudly touted himself as the first Latino to run for president, should have said something. This of course then begs the question : are latino issues only to be brought up by and for Latinos?
When I asked Governor Richardson (yes I asked him-look how sweaty he got upon seeing me) about such forums/debates for Latinos, he pointed to the upcoming National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed officials Democratic forum. But that forum, to my knowledge, isn’t televised nationally like tonight’s forum was. So are Latinos being pandered to but not really brought into the political process. Are we an afterthought/add on to other race issues?
Perhaps I expected too much. Perhaps I got caught up in the spin in the media room and lost my jaded edge and actually believed in electoral politics.
Cold Hard Dinero
9:41 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · MBAPBSAllAmericaDem| Money · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007Of course attacking Bush is the easy answer in terms of the question about the wealthy paying their fair share. The issue is about disparitiy and the why. Obama hit the nail on the head by making it a race issue (because yes race and class work together people). Mike Gravel got some looks when he mentioned wiping out the federal income tax. If people really think that will solve poverty, people need to look at Puerto Rico which has no federal income tax and has soaring poverty rates.
Bill Richardson (the great brown hope) is actually talking about more money for corporations going into the inner cities.
And the Debate, I Mean Forum Continues on Education
9:26 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Education| MBAPBSAllAmericaDem| Politics| Washington DC · 1 Comment
28 Jun 2007Joe Biden really needs to really stop using the word minority. Bill Richardson is so bored with the whole debate that he yawned right before it was his turn. I think its key that Richardson compared access to education to access to water, that is as a basic human right. But again why the term minority. Are we talking numbers or political power, that analysis has to happen when people, especially candidates chose to use certain terms.
Finally someone, (Obama saves the day), talks about the lack of money behind No Child Left Behind (although I won’t even get into the issue of the problems with the program itself.
What I am waiting for someone to mention are two issues about education: the tracking of children of color and the language access issues that essentially shu non-English dominant parents out.
Collective moans just filled the media room as Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise…yes we know, it takes a village of well meaning white liberals.
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