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GOP Presidential Candidate joins Occupy Wall Street? The end is near.

Monday, October 10th, 2011

The “end may as well be near”, since it has been discovered a GOP Presidential candidate will join Occupy Wall Street.

You hardly hear about him in the news, but it’s true. Buddy Roemer, a 2012 Presidential Candidate is joining Occupy Wall Street. Very strange and controversial indeed, especially when Mitt Romney (another 2012 Presidential Candidate) considers it “dangerous” to Occupy Wall Street. Of course, we all know that Mitt Romney is the epitome of Wall Street.

 

Here is the story:

 

Buddy Roemer joining Occupy Wall Street protest

By ALEXANDER BURNS | 10/10/11 8:03 AM EDT Updated: 10/10/11 8:34 AM EDT

Long-shot presidential candidate Buddy Roemer will take his support for Occupy Wall Street to the next level Tuesday when he joins a demonstration in New York.

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Roemer has been the lone Republican to praise Occupy Wall Street as an expression of public anger against what he calls a “government … controlled by special interest money.” It’s an unlikely strategy for a GOP presidential candidate, but it may be the populist Roemer’s best shot at having a media moment in the 2012 race.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65526.html#ixzz1aPclt2X8

The Christian Post understands the political risks 2012 GOP Candidates are taking with Hispanic vote

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

The Christian Post understands the political risks the GOP Presidential Candidates are considering when they are wanting to boycott UNIVISION over Senator Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio has fractured relationships between Cubans (consists of 3% of total Hispanic population) and the largest Hispanic ethnic group (those of Mexican descent accounting for almost 70% of Hispanic population).

From the Christian Post:

The candidates who are boycotting Univision are “committing Hispanic political suicide,” Blase said. “Univision is the number-one Spanish network in the nation,” and “the lifeline of Hispanic media.”

Blase said Somos Republicans was already upset with Rubio for saying that he does not support “amnesty” for illegal immigrants, because, as a Cuban-American, his family has already benefited from an amnesty-like government program.

Republican candidates who support the boycott, “are trying to appease the Cuban-American population” at the expense of the rest of the Latino community, Blase said.

“Do they want to go after the 3 percent (Cuban-American population, prominent in Florida) or do they want to go after the 70 to 75 percent (Mexican-American population, prominent in the Southwest)? That is what I see taking place with their moronic move, fighting Univision,” Blase said.

Read more of the story here.