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GOP Outreach Fail of the Day: Former RNC Florida State Director of Hispanic Outreach Quits the Republican Party And Becomes A Democrat
When Republicans appointed Pablo Pantoja to State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee, they hoped he would be able to bridge the sizable gap that only expanded during the 2012 elections, when the states 4.7 million Hispanic voters supported Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by a 20 percent margin.
But after months of inaction by Congressional Republicans on comprehensive immigration reform and stiff resistance by Republican-leaning groups like the Heritage Foundation, Pantoja has had enough; on Monday, he announced via email that he was leaving the party and registering as a Democrat:
Friend,
Yes, I have changed my political affiliation to the Democratic Party.
It doesnt take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today. I have wondered before about the seemingly harsh undertones about immigrants and others. Look no further; a well-known organization recently confirms the intolerance of that which seems different or strange to them.
Pantoja goes on to specifically cite last weeks revelation that an author of Heritages false report on the cost of the Gang of Eights immigration bill wrote a dissertation in which he suggested that Hispanics are at a permanent disadvantage because they have lower IQs as the final straw in his political evolution.
http://thepoliticalfreakshow.us/post/50432716026/gop-outreach-fail-of-the-day-former-rnc-florida
When Republicans appointed Pablo Pantoja to State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee, they hoped he would be able to bridge the sizable gap that only expanded during the 2012 elections, when the states 4.7 million Hispanic voters supported Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by a 20 percent margin.
But after months of inaction by Congressional Republicans on comprehensive immigration reform and stiff resistance by Republican-leaning groups like the Heritage Foundation, Pantoja has had enough; on Monday, he announced via email that he was leaving the party and registering as a Democrat:
Friend,
Yes, I have changed my political affiliation to the Democratic Party.
It doesnt take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today. I have wondered before about the seemingly harsh undertones about immigrants and others. Look no further; a well-known organization recently confirms the intolerance of that which seems different or strange to them.
Pantoja goes on to specifically cite last weeks revelation that an author of Heritages false report on the cost of the Gang of Eights immigration bill wrote a dissertation in which he suggested that Hispanics are at a permanent disadvantage because they have lower IQs as the final straw in his political evolution.
http://thepoliticalfreakshow.us/post/50432716026/gop-outreach-fail-of-the-day-former-rnc-florida
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Welcome to the Dark Side… It's fun over here! (Original Post)
MrScorpio
May 2013
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The very fact that he switched his party affiliation shows just how much a lie it is to say that
CaliforniaPeggy
May 2013
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,583 posts)1. The very fact that he switched his party affiliation shows just how much a lie it is to say that
Hispanics' IQ is lower.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. Another successful outreach
He must have been good at it, since it worked on him.
Warpy
(111,245 posts)3. The GOP has been good at tokenism
by pushing men like Cruz and Rubio toward the front of the party.
They've just been very bad at disguising what bigots they really are underneath it all.
JustAnotherGen
(31,810 posts)5. This awesome
And I thank you for giving us ALL of the information.
Not just what a few Republicans have put a spin on and called a scandal.