How a Republican alienated many of his key Hispanic supporters and lost.
Republican party stalwart Bill McCollum lost Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial primary in Florida because Hispanic Republicans stayed home after he pandered to the party’s right wing on immigration, a state GOP strategist just said.
Navarro who has advised leading Republicans such as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sen. John McCain, said McCollum alienated many of his key Hispanic supporters when he hustled out proposed legislation that would crack down on illegal immigration two weeks before the election.
“He antagonized some of his top Hispanic advisers, his Hispanic voters and his Hispanic surrogates,” she said, “And the backlash was perhaps much larger than what he envisioned.”
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson Blames Imigrants for Black Society’s ills / Unemployment
Earl Ofari Hutchinson didn’t think Latinos would vote for Obama because of the color of his skin.. yet they did and now he think its the immigrants fault that blacks don’t have jobs. whats his problem with Latinos?
is it the fault of immigrants that they have such a good work ethic? they get first pick because they are more then willing to take any job without complaining about long hours. but that is the same about any immigrant regardless of color of his skin . its very simple folks , immigrants are here for the opportunities of this country and that is something that citizens take for granted.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson has a long history of targeting Latinos and immigrants as the reason for the high black unemployment numbers., so maybe i should not be surprised.