GOP outreach to Latinos ends the same day it started with attacks on Labor nominee, Perez

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With Attacks On Secretary Of Labor Nominee, GOP Latino Outreach Efforts End On Day One

In the GOP’s “autopsy” of the 2012 election, the party’s problem with non-white voters is put in blunt terms: “Young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what the party represents, and many minorities wrongly think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country.”

On the same day the report was released, Republicans immediately freaked out at the president’s announcement of Thomas E. Perez — current assistant attorney general in charge of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division — as his nominee to head the Department of Labor.

A longtime civil rights attorney, former staffer for Senator Ted Kennedy, member of the Clinton administration and former Secretary of Labor in Maryland, Perez has exactly the credentials you’d expect a Democratic president to look for in his labor secretary. The nomination was praised by groups like Jobs with Justice, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the AFL-CIO.

This overreaction from the right wasn’t a surprise. Republicans held up Perez’s nomination to the Department of Justice for seven months, but it is telling that even after Mitt Romney’s disastrous performance with Latinos in 2012, the GOP is intent on letting its ideological fringe continue to attack Latino leaders in a way that seems to purposely alienate minority voters.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/with-attacks-on-secretary-of-labor-nominee-gop-latino-outreach-efforts-end-on-day-one/

The 'republican civil war' continues. Those in the GOP who at least want to pretend to reach out to minorities are constantly upstaged by the fundamentalist/libertarian wings of the party that want no 'compromise' with anyone or anything.

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1. GOP Ideology - Refined in the crucible of racism. nt