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Republican Congresswoman Links Swine Flu to Democrats

29 Apr 2009

Too bad she’s all wrong. This is so pathetic it’s embarrassing:

Grasp at many straws lately? Come on, guys, this is really starting to get sad!

Via / The Huffington Post

Breaking News: Republic Senator Arlen Specter is Now a Democrat

12:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Politics| pennsylvania · 3 Comments

28 Apr 2009

Bad news for the Republican Party. Long-time GOP senator Arlen Specter let President Obama know this morning that he is switching parties and becoming a Democrat, citing that he “no longer feels comfortable” with his party. CNN broke the story about an hour ago (video above), and reports that some of the Senator’s Pennsylvania constituents were to meet him this morning when the news leaked, at which point Specter emerged from his office amid roaring applause from them. The UK’s Guardian has more:

“I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,” Specter said in a statement posted on a website devoted to Pennsylvania politics and confirmed by his office. Several Senate officials said a formal announcement could come later today or tomorrow. [...]

“I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate,” he said in the statement.

“I don’t have to say anything to them. They’ve said it to me,” Specter said, when asked in a Capitol corridor about abandoning the conservatives.

The Guardian reports that President Obama contacted Specter by phone shortly after to say he was “thrilled to have” him and give him his “full support” (more coverage from MSNBC after the jump).

CNN just reported that Republican Senator for Maine Olympia Snowe was quoted as saying that Specter’s switch is “devastating” for the GOP and symptomatic of the dominance of the extreme right within the party.

Specter had been a Republican since 1966.

Read more…

Bailout fails, somehow I don’t think that’s a good thing…

12:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · economy · Comments Off

30 Sep 2008

So I’ve been following the economic crisis issue for a while now, and I’m sorry to say I have no more idea what’s going on now than when I started following it. Apparently I’m not the only one who is confused:

When it Comes to Immigration, Not all Democrats are Created Equal

8:33 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Politics · 3 Comments

18 Oct 2006

With the midterm elections just weeks away, Democrats and Republicans are making their speeches acrosses the country and they are (still) talking immigration. Contrary to what they would have you think though, the Democratics are not all about roads to legalization and guest worker programs. In fact some Democrats sound downright Republican when it comes to immigration.

In North Carolina, Heath Shuler, a former Washington Redskins quarterback who is running for Congress, ran a television advertisement declaring he would never “give amnesty” to illegal immigrants. In Georgia, Representative John Barrow has played up his vote to build a fence on the southwest border. In Ohio, John Cranley, the challenger to the Republican incumbent, Representative Steve Chabot, has accused Mr. Chabot of voting to legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.

In this state, Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., the Democrat running for Senate, reminds voters repeatedly that federal agents raided his Republican opponent’s business and found four illegal immigrants working there. Mr. Ford also proudly describes his vote for the border security legislation passed by the House last year, a measure condemned as anti-immigrant by many Democrats in Congress.

“Offensive” ad pulled by Dems

7:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| Marketing| Politics · Comments Off

17 Aug 2006

Amnesty%20Seeking%20Illegal%20Aliens.JPG Following up on Mala’s post yesterday about the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s ad which has offended many in the Latino community, it seems (as Mala points out in the comments section) that the negative press has worked, as the ad mysteriously disappeared from thr DDCC’s site last night, and apparently mum’s the word:

Democrats dropped an ad that Hispanics had criticized as unfairly depicting illegal immigrants as terrorists.

The ad had disappeared from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s Web site Thursday. A link that had led to the advertisement now leads to a different ad.

No announcement was made about what happened to the ad. A DSCC spokesman did not return phone calls and an e-mail message seeking comment.

I hope heads are rolling over there, and that Democrats learn something from this. By attempting to tap into the fear of conservatives to try to win them over to “our side”, all they are doing is alienating those who they depend on for votes.

Via / NewsMax

Dems courting Latinos via “la copa”

2:35 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Marketing| Politics| Sports · Comments Off

8 Jun 2006

A group of Democrats are dedicating 2 million big ones to an initiative to get Latinos won over to the party via an ad campaign that will run during the 2006 World Cup, according to AP:

Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, said the group wants to use a “major sport like soccer to brand Democrats for a wider audience.”

The TV ad shows an empty soccer field as an announcer says: “For years now, we’ve been awaiting this moment. Our country is again ready to return to being the great nation that all of us always dreamed of. Get involved. It’s up to you.”

The radio ad will air in 70 markets all over the country.

Personally, while definitely a way to target Latinos en masse, I’m wondering if this campaign will be effective. The World Cup, perhaps more than any other sporting event in the world, is a way to escape, to dream, to imagine and to celebrate the sport as a culture. I think the last thing on people’s minds is the state of the country and how a political party might change that. Caught up in the revelry and emotion, it’s hard to remember that as a nation we’re in crisis.

Thoughts?

Via / Que Pasa

Latinos to take the vote left in CA

6:22 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California| Politics| States · 2 Comments

7 Feb 2006

That’s what a new survey is saying.

Seventy percent of Californians who have registered to vote since 1990 are Latino, providing a growing benefit to Democrats and posing a threat to Republicans, according to a new voting report.

The Field Poll on election trends also said that there is partisan split between coastal and inland counties that favors Democrats but is slowly shifting in favor of the GOP as the more Republican inland population grows.

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