The Republican Party lost a long life Republican, Lauro Garza, who is a Texas Latino GOP leader due to the continued betrayal of the Republican Party.  The Republican National Committee lacks the spine to moderate the extremism coming from 2012 Presidential elections.  However, note how these same GOP Presidential elections will not touch the “Church of Latter Day Saints / Mormon” issue.  Obviously marching orders were given to not attack members of the LDS Church, HOWEVER, marching orders should have been given a long time ago to do away with referring to Latino / Hispanic immigrants as roaches, rats, cows, shooting them like feral hogs, and now we see Herman Cain advocating the death of Latino immigrants.

FOR THE CRITICS:  Lauro is a long life Republican, staunch advocate of 2nd amendment rights and hunts religiously.  He is one of the most pro life activists ever known to man in Tejano history.  He is a conservative and like him, I believe the Republican Party ought to be disciplined for allowing jokes and extreme anti-Latino rhetoric to take place.  2012 will be a cleansing period for the Republican Party, and we hope that Republican Senate Candidates who live in high Hispanic populated states will take a tone different than the tone Herman Cain has taken.

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We all know the outrage we would hear if anyone made any jokes about the Jewish community and the Hitler camps.  Equally heinous would be any jokes and remarks made of slave lynchings and hangings, therefore, the Latino will NOT support support any candidate who has a history of demonizing the immigrants.  So far, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum will be remembered as tools who are trying to get popular in demonizing Latinos and immigrants.

From the Texas Director of SOMOS REPUBLICANS who is leaving the Republican party due to lack of Republican leadership in moderating extreme anti-Latino rhetoric:

GOP leadership:  Beyond Reprehensible

 

How much distance has been travelled since President George W. Bush left office?  To us at Somos Republicans, the answer is, “Way too much!”  We fear that for most of the Republican Party, the answer is, “Not far enough!!”

Today, we find the Republican Party has strayed from its roots and its founding principals so far that they can no longer be seen.  We saw this yesterday, in the glare of broad daylight, when a leading presidential candidate, Herman Cain, not once, but twice, advocated for the murder of innocent people and that was met with cheers!Somos Republicans, America’s largest organization of conservative Hispanics, was alone in its criticism of this loud mouth hateful bigot.  He says he was “joking.”  Nobody here is laughing!  The fact the GOP allows and applauds such outrageous thoughts is beyond reprehensible.

To us, the idea of allegedly “Pro-Life” people shouting for the un-Constitutional use of deadly force is unbelievable.  Then, too, we shouldn’t be surprised since Republican leaders have been advocating for the nullification of the American Constitution in states like Arizona, Georgia and now Alabama.  When did Republicans, once synonymous with “conservative,” become so liberal as to attack their very own Bill of Rights in the 4th and 14th Amendments?!

Where is Republican leadership?  Where has the guiding principal of “Morality” gone?!  If the Republican Party cannot or will not rebuke this hateful bigot and others like him who wear the mantle of “Republican” then perhaps the time has come for a rebuke of the Party itself!

Ronald Reagan left the Democrat Party saying they had left him.  Perhaps, I shall do the same because the Republican Party has become radical and unreasonable.  President Reagan must be tumbling in his grave!

 

 

Lauro Antonio Garza,MPO

Somos Republicans, Texas State Director

October 16, 2011

Just in, from the Somos Republicans Northwest Director:

Reaction to Comments by GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain

Dear Mr. Cain,

Allow me to get to the point. You are not presidential material and your comments about how you would deal with the immigration issue prove that this. It is appalling that in this day and age politicians resort to incendiary and cruel comments to pander to voters. You have brushed off your comments as being merely jokes and WE ARE NOT LAUGHING.

Regardless of what side of the immigration issue one happens to be, we need to agree that the issue is a human issue. Do not forget you are referring to the electrocution and mauling of God’s children. You claim that you do not care about political correctness. This is not about political correctness, this is about basic humanity. Our Constitution provides you with the right to free speech. Use it responsibly.

Hate filled rhetoric is bad business for party and most importantly the nation. The party has lost Latino voter support and it will take decades before it recovers. You claim you don’t pander to any groups. It is very clear that you are pandering. In your efforts to pander to the extremists in the Republican Party, you have alienated a group that can swing presidential elections in key states.

It seems that some polls are showing you in the lead; let me assure you that this is a pyrrhic victory for polls in primaries are fickle and the damage that you are inflicting on the party and the nation is no laughing matter. The end result will be four more years of Obama.

I am the Northwest Director for the largest Latino Republican group in the nation, Somos Republicans. As diverse as the Latino community in the United State is, a recent poll conducted by impreMedia/Latino Decisions found that a majority of Latino voters (53%) said they know someone who is undocumented, while one-fourth (25%) said they know a person or have a family member who is facing deportation or who has been deported. The poll was conducted among registered voters, who by definition are citizens of the United States.

The majority of Republicans do not espouse extremist views on immigration and many of us want to see the immigration system overhauled because it is clear that what we currently have in place is not working.

This letter to you is also a call to the Republican National Committee (RNC) and other GOP Presidential Candidates to repudiate your rhetoric.

Sincerely,

Antonella Packard
Somos Republicans Northwest Director

Tequila Party Movement — DeeDee Garcia Blase

From the Huffington Post — Latino Voices.

Much commotion has been made concerning a recent Republican effort to win over Latino voting support. While it might be admirable for the GOP to make an attempt to reach out to Latinos during a Presidential election year, I am afraid that their efforts will be fruitless until they reverse the actions of their dismal record regarding last December’s 2010 DREAM Act vote. We are now seeing former Senator Norm Coleman attempting to win over Latino voters via his Hispanic Leadership Network program, even though he told me in March of this year that the GOP cannot support legal immigration reform because it is simply not their priority. Fair enough, but given that, Latinos should not prioritize voting for the GOP.

The Republican Party can no longer claim to be pro-family, when over one million families have been forced apart or detained through their “attrition through enforcement” policies. It can no longer pride itself on pro-life views, since they attacked American-born baby rights via the 14th Amendment. It can no longer pride itself on jobs and the economy, because they are hurting the economy through their protectionism. Daniel Griswold from the CATO Institute told me that one low-skilled undocumented farm worker produces 3.1 middle income jobs to native born Americans via packaging, transportation and marketing. Since the passage of Georgia’s harsh anti-immigrant law, Georgia farmers have become desperate in their need to replace 11,000 farm workers who fled in mass exodus.

Read the rest here.

Ted Reinstein is a Boston columnist who quoted us as saying the Tea Party’s Over.

He is right.

It is over.

The Tea Party movement nut-jobbers like Michele Bachmann, DeMint, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Debbie Riddle, Dan Patrick, Ted Poe, Leo Berman, Tom Tancredo, Russell Pearce, JD Hayworth, and all the other angry politicians who are irrational are losing Tea Party momentum.

The Tea Party’s Over

Uncompromising Right To The End

(SNIP)

Why the Republican flight from reasonableness to recklessness then?

Two words: Tea Party.

It is primarily the newest House members, many of whom were Tea Party-backed, who have been most rigid and unyielding in demanding steep and drastic budget cuts. And they have made it very difficult for Republican House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to find compromise in, or otherwise moderate their mad dog approach to politics.While a government shutdown was narrowly averted last week when the White House and Boehner agreed on some $39 billion in cuts, Tea Party members had wanted $60 to $100 billion in cuts — numbers that would have devastated daily life for millions of Americans.

The Tea Party response? Three words, as succinctly summed up by U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), a Tea Party favorite: Shut ‘er down!

Some were troubled by that scorched earth attitude.

“Tea partiers seem to have an ‘all or nothing’ characteristic about them and we know this because they were being irrational in wanting to see the entire government shutdown … it is simply unreasonable to see the entire government shutdown instead of promoting rational solutions.”

The words of Michael Moore or Rachel Maddow?

No, the words of DeeDee Garcia Blase, writing in the Tucson Citizen. Blase is Founder and President of Somos Republicans, the nation’s largest Latino Republican organization.

Read the entire article here:  http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/27557110/detail.html

This is amazing!  Do you think Russell Pearce will be simple minded enough to waste Arizona taxes on taking this all the way to the supreme court? SOMOS REPUBLICANS asks the Arizona delegation to show leadership below!  We are celebrating! And if it wasn’t for lent, we would be celebrating even more!

National Latino GOP Group Calls Upon Arizona Governor to Show Leadership and End the SB 1070 Litigation

For Immediate Release
Contact DeeDee Garcia Blase – 480.200.3748

11 April 2011

info@somosrepublicans.com

Phoenix, AZ — We are happy to hear that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Arizona immigration law. Therefore, we call upon Governor Jan Brewer to show leadership to end the expensive litigation that is costing the State of Arizona millions and millions of dollars to defend.

SB 1070 has caused the State of Arizona economic damage and business leaders have spoken against these restrictionist laws that do not foster pro business and pro growth ideas. Arizona’s housing industry has been negatively affected because there are not enough people to fill in vacant houses as foreclosures continue to rise.

We would also like to call upon the Arizona delegation like Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl to show leadership and statemanship to bring about national unity in order to solve this tough issue once and for all. SOMOS REPUBLICANS has already taken the moral high ground to come up with a solution with our Steps to Secure Borders and Legal Immigration Plan. Our plan was blessed by Lionel Sosa who was the Presidential Hispanic advisor to Ronald Reagan which we hold in high esteem.

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About Somos Republicans:

Somos Republicans is a national watchdog group and the largest Hispanic Republican grassroots organization in the nation because of our leadership that is pro immigration reform. The Mission of Somos Republicans is to promote political education and information needed to make more informed political decisions. To inspire the Hispanic people to make a difference in their lives and the lives of their neighbors through collaborative political education, volunteer commitment and responsible participation in society. Our vision is to increase the Latino Republican voting block by 100% within two years. To increase voter registration, precinct committeemen recruitment, campaign volunteering, fundraising and events to reflect quality of future Latino leadership.

Winning the Republican Presidency will be very difficult to do in 2012, however, we figured there might be hope for the Republican Party in gaining Senate seats.

Not anymore.

4 Senators are going to put a monkey wrench into it, and they are:  GOP Sens.  David Vitter of Louisiana, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky.  These 4 senators are making some extreme moves to change the 14th amendment by limiting birthright citizenship where the  Supreme Court has already made a ruling and it  was later codified  and discussed in detail via the Senate. Senator Rand Paul recently said his dad will more than likely run for President in 2012, and I think he will hurt his dad’s efforts if he continues with his 14th amendment talks.

Have we forgotten about every single ethnic group that will be affected with their proposal?

Never mind the French Canadian illegals in Pennsylvania.  Never mind the Irish illegals in Massachusetts.  Never mind the Cuban illegals Texas Senator John Cornyn is concerned about.  Never mind the Asian illegals throughout the country.  Never mind the illegals from Israel, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Hong Kong, China, United Kingdom, Netherlands,  Haiti, and countless more.  Do you see where I’m going with this?  You can read about all the illegal immigrants from around the globe that were apprehended in 2010 in a report by the U.S. Customs Border and Protection Agency. These 4 Senators have not looked at the negative long term affects with their proposal that will affect every single group that is represented in America from around the world.

Since the 14th amendment is an American immigrant issue, let’s not forget how the African American community will respond to this issue, too.  In fact, the very first African-American Senator of Texas — Barbara Jordan said , “I would shed blood before agreeing to altering the 14th amendment.”  These are very strong and passionate words that will stir ever African American voter in the United States to the polls as they are reminded why Barbara Jordan was so passionate about this.

In a testimony by Barbara Jordan, she said:

To deny birthright citizenship would derail this engine of American liberty. Progress in America is not an accident. It was immigration that drove us down the track toward a broader and more truthful vision of ourselves. It was immigration that taught us that, in this country, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says, in part: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State in which they reside.”

This was originally a statute, the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Its authors knew that, as a statute, it was vulnerable to being overturned by future lawmakers. That, they determined, must not happen. We must not forget the history of the 14th Amendment, or the context in which it was passed. We had fought a bloody civil war. And now, three amendments to the Constitution were adopted–to end slavery; to provide equal protection of the laws; and to guarantee the right to vote.  …Even if–which I oppose –it was sound policy to so amend the Constitution, it will take time. It will take resources. It will divide the country on the most profound level–the question of who we are as a people and who says so.

My advice to these 4 Senators and the entire GOP:  Lay low on the 14th amendment issue. It is 2012 Senate political suicide for us.  Not only is it un-American — it is not politically viable.  There is a reason why State Senator Russell Pearce (who advocated for the Operation Wetback plan here in Arizona) lost support for the 14th amendment bills he advocated for in Arizona.   The GOP State Senator FAILED MISERABLY when he introduced the Arizona Birth right citizenship bills via SB 1308 and SB 1309.   This should send a strong signal to every single GOP leader out there in the nation that if it the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship bill could not survive the Arizona legislature, then it will not survive the Senate because the State of Arizona is immigration ground zero. As a result of being based in Arizona, we have already taken the moral high ground in proposing a viable solution that was blessed by Lionel Sosa (former Ronald Reagan Hispanic Presidential advisor, and he was also an advisor to George Bush I and II).  Our reasonable solution is titled the 12 Steps to Securing Our Borders and Legal Immigration.

We know there are a few terrorists who more than anything would want to kill the beacon of light we represent and have become to the whole world.  More than anything they want for us to become restrictionists and isolationists so they don’t have to hear from their own citizens cry out for a type of western democracy and freedoms.  Therefore, we must never forget what made this nation great — IMMIGRANTS.  We cannot cower down to what terrorists want from us — and they want us to destroy from within the freedoms that have made us great.  They don’t want us to be that Shining City on a Hill.

I leave you this quote from Ronald Reagan’s diaries…

“A call in evening reported a boat load of Haitians approaching our shores.  I’m all for opening the door to refugees from totalitarianism but this is more complicated.  These are just people who believe they can have a better life here.  They are in fact illegal aliens.” – Ronald Reagan Diaries (Saturday, February 28, 1981)

(Above:  Senator Rand Paul)