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Hispanic Celebrities Rally Voters

Ahead of the March 4 primary in Texas, Ugly Betty's America Ferrera and comedian George Lopez are rallying Hispanic voters on behalf of their favorite candidates for the Democratic ticket. Support from Texas's large Hispanic population is expected to be a vital component for victory in the state.

Ferrera is backing Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), who has deep roots in the Texas establishment and earned the endorsement of three more state officials yesterday.

Lopez supports Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who is expected to perform well in the Texas's urban centers and who is riding a wave of recent victories in primary contests across the country.

Both campaigns are running Spanish-language TV spots in the Lone Star state, which will send 193 delegates to the national convention.

-- Ilene Rosenblum

By washingtonpost.com Editors |  February 20, 2008; 1:41 PM ET
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These individuals are disputing the leadership of the "Camarada Che" action wing of La Raza. Time the FBI and ICE were called in.

Posted by: filoporquequilo | February 20, 2008 4:51 PM

Hispanic/Latinos whether they are celebrities or not that find out what Barack Obama really thinks of them are going to look very stupid. But to be fair Barack Obama is not telling them the truth that there is a legitimate reason why Hispanic/Latinos should not blindly vote for Barack Obama. I have been reporting all over the internet since before Obama decided to even run that it can be verified that IL. U.S. Senator Presidential Candidate Barack Obama , IL. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin co-chair Obama 2008 are being complicit in allowing the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to treat me an American U.S. Hispanic citizen who reported incidents of race discrimination in the state of Illinois in an unequal, biased, & discriminatory manner by preventing me the same race discrimination charges non-Hispanics enjoy as a matter of record and then covering up their conduct. Despite there being ample time for each to respond, redress, and stop the above mentioned serious form of discrimination nothing ,to date, has been done to fairly & fully address, redress,and stop this still ongoing serious form of discrimination which has allowed Hormel Foods Corporation, UFCW, and Target Corporation to not be held accountable for race discrimination against me because I happen to be Hispanic. Inaction ,complicity, & deliberate silence on the part of (for instance but not limited to) Obama and Durbin are responsible for my American civil rights continuing to be violated in Illinois as it relates to this serious form of discrimination in their state of Illinois and for nothing being done to fully & fairly redress and stop this still ongoing form of discrimination against an American who happens to be a Hispanic in Illinois. Hispanics who Know are just showing they will not be willing victims of his "Good Judgement". He has this still going on in Illinois as we speak but Barack Obama tells Hispanic/Latinos nothing about it! I repeat this is verifiable, ongoing and Barack Obama should address it but does not and you can guess why. Included is a link to just one example (If you happen to be a Hispanic in Illinois you have no race) this is on IDHR's own website in the public domain.

http://www.state.il.us/dhr/Orders/2006/Oct_06/Zuniga,%20M.htm

Posted by: Chaos45i | February 20, 2008 6:08 PM

Hispanic/Latinos that have voted for or are endorsing Barack Obama have been misled by Barack Obama and I would hope that it is time for the media to fact check this story as a member on this blog you have e-mail.

Posted by: Chaos45i | February 20, 2008 6:14 PM

Obama does not need the Hispanic Vote. He has every other Vote.

Go ahead and Vote for Crook Clintons


A is for Arkansas, where Bill Clinton got his political start, where Hillary Rodham Clinton worked at Rose Law Firm, and where Whitewater began as a land deal between the Clintons and Jim and Susan McDougal.

B is for Billing-gate, Hillary Clinton's missing law-billing records. Those records -- which raised questions about Mrs. Clinton's role in the Castle Grande deal -- were subpoenaed in 1994. They were missing until early 1996, when they turned up in a White House room next to her office. She says she doesn't know how they got there.
C is for Cattlegate, Hillary Clinton's mysterious ability to turn a $1,000 investment into a $100,000 profit on cattle futures, a feat experts say was virtually impossible in normal trading.

C is also for Castle Grande, a real-estate scheme that federal regulators say was a sham. A federal inspector general's report found Hillary Clinton drew up the legal papers that were used to improperly funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to Seth Ward, father-in-law of her ex-law partner Webster Hubbell.

D is for Billy Dale, the career head of the White House Travel Office, who was fired along with six other career staffers, to make way for Clinton cronies in Travelgate. The White House then brought in the FBI to justify the firing, and Dale was hit with criminal charges that wrecked his life for two years. A jury cleared him in just two hours.

E is for Mike Espy, the former agriculture secretary who was forced out over charges that he got gifts and favors from Arkansas-based Tyson foods, whose owners were longtime Clinton backers. A special counsel has brought several indictments, though not against Espy.

Posted by: MsRita | February 20, 2008 10:07 PM

Barack Obama is telling everyone in Texas to Hurry up and vote for him not to wait but nobody else in this election is rushing voters decisions, in that same speech he thanked UFCW (the same UFCW he has helped shield from race discrimination charges in Illinios)for helping him win in Wisconsin.

Posted by: Chaos45i | February 20, 2008 10:47 PM

Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Clinton? Are we serious? When we elect Hillary Clinton as the next president of the united states we are going to look pretty stupid to the rest of the world. I mean we fought and won Revolutionary War to end monarchies. Didn't we?

Posted by: Peter | February 24, 2008 9:50 AM

Trying to Heal a Rift in New Hampshire

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/18/trying_to_heal_a_rift_in_new_h_1.html


Please click on the below site to see The Clinton's did to Obama what they are claiming he did by telling the Truth. Hillary lied in New Hampshire in her mailers.

Can you imagine Hillary screaming at Obama after she sent mailers that were complete lies.

Trying to Heal a Rift in New Hampshire

By Alec MacGillis

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/18/trying_to_heal_a_rift_in_new_h_1.html

Three New Hampshire Democratic leaders who signed a letter two days before the state's primary at the request of
Hillary Clinton's campaign, attacking Barack Obama as soft in his support for abortion rights, are asking Obama supporters in the state to put the rifts of the primary campaign behind them and praising Obama for being "strongly pro-choice."

One of the three Clinton supporters went even further, saying in an interview
Thursday that signing the letter attacking Obama was a "mistake."

Katie Wheeler, a former state senator, said

"It should never have gotten to the point where anyone thought Obama was not pro-choice," said Wheeler, a founder of the New Hampshire chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "I don't think the Clinton campaign should have done that. It was divisive and unnecessary...
I think it was a mistake and I've spoken to the national [Clinton campaign] and told them it caused problems in New Hampshire, and am hoping they won't do it again."

The new letter and comments by Wheeler are the latest twist in a back-and-forth that

Nonetheless, the conflict over Obama's "present" -- rather than "yes" or "no" -- votes

The e-mail arrived in selected New Hampshire in-boxes shortly after a postcard from the Clinton campaign that attacked Obama for being "unwilling to take a stand for choice" was mailed to homes.


The Clinton campaign has made the same charge repeatedly over the past year, including a couple weeks before the Iowa caucus.
The Obama campaign had rebuffed it by invoking statements by an Illinois Planned Parenthood official,
who said the "present" votes were part of a deliberate strategy to protect other pro-choice legislators, other than Obama, in vulnerable districts.

But the fresh New Hampshire attack arrived much closer to election day, leaving the Obama forces scrambling
to respond by rushing out an automated phone call on the evening of Jan. 6, two days before the vote.
On primary day, Clinton won by two percentage points after trailing in the final polls by as much as 10 percent,
thanks in large part to a last-minute surge in support from women.


But she said that she remained aggrieved by the Clinton attack and by the willingness of so many Democratic leaders in the state to go along with it, and worried by reports that similar e-mails attacking Obama on abortion rights have gone out in other states preparing to vote.

"But for Clinton to do this to the choice community is so appalling.
I can't tell you how it distresses me ... how devastating this and how horrified I am
that the Clinton campaign would do this. I fear it will happen elsewhere and it's just appalling."


More outrageousness that demoralizes anyone who thinks politics can matter. A founder of a NARAL chapter didn't bother looking into the Obama smears before signing her name to them?

Others saying, now that they helped the Clinton's shamefully and dishonestly bury Obama in NH,
that they'd like to kiss and make up?

There will be no "coming together" with the Clintons again for this die-hard Dem. I'm through with them.
Posted by: cmss1 | January 18, 2008 04:45 P

Posted by: Patricia | February 24, 2008 3:25 PM

UFCW the same UFCW that Barack Obama has and is to date continuing to sheild from race discrimination charges is running attack ads on his behalf. One hand washes the other.

Posted by: Chaos45i | February 25, 2008 2:52 AM

It was amazing to me how conveniently Hillary fired her Hispanic campaign manager, after they voted. hmmmmm

Posted by: Anonymous | February 25, 2008 1:58 PM

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