Monday, February 23rd, 2009...6:04 am
Latino Caucus
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I attended the first meeting of the Pima County Latino Caucus meeting on Friday night. There were a lot of non-latino faces there, which could be an indication of part of the problem with latino outreach in the local party organization, or the glass could be half full and this could be because non-latinos in the local party think that this iorganization is important. Yeah, that’s it.
The meeting was held over at El Pueblo Neighborhood Center in room 1C. If you don’t quite get the irony of that room number, ask any long time Tucsonan that went to school here back in the 50’s and 60’s.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 7:42 am
So Ted, who were the Latinos in attendance?
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:10 am
re: “non-latino faces”:
I could probably do blackface, but how does one do “latino face”? Perhaps the caucus could provide instructions.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
My mother was in 1C and my aunt’s wedding reception was just at El Pueblo. This is my sort of post.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Is this going to be one of those times when Eugene Benton, Jimmy Fisher, David Kennon, James Baker, and Hank Oyama will not be recognized as “latinos”? Could we please get away from appearances? This is on the level of Ann Coulter saying Barack Obama and Halle Berry should be celebrating the “white side” of their heritage rather than the “black.”
February 24th, 2009 at 7:06 am
It was good to see solidarity from African-Americans and “Anglos” along with Latinos that night. True, we need to reach out to the many more Latinos, but it was a good start. Hopefully, with the mobilization grant, some of the folks there will work on outreach efforts. If the answer were clear, we’d have a huge number of Latinos active in the Democratic party. We still haven’t figured out how to reach out to ourselves.
February 24th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Congressman Raul Grijalva and his daughter Adelita,
state senator Jorge Luis Garcia, state rep. Olivia Cajero Bedford, Supervisors Richard Elias and Ramon Valadez, So. Tucson mayor Jennifer Eckstrom, Councilwoman Regina Romero.. anyone else missing from this list?
February 24th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Carol—none of those listed folks were there? They were there or not there? I am confused….
February 27th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I asked Ted who was there and he didn’t respond, so I mentioned a list of Latino pols who should have been there. Maybe they were….