Romney Appeals to Hispanics

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ

MIAMI (AP) - Free trade is key to ending Latin American poverty, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday while courting support from the Cuban-American and growing Venezuelan-American communities.

"Trade lifts all nations that participate," Romney said when asked how he would end poverty and other conditions that have given rise to leaders such as Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, who has been a close ally of Cuba's Fidel Castro.

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, noted that the Bush administration had sought free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and Peru, but the Democratic-controlled Congress failed to approve them.

"We'd like to see more agreements, not fewer, to improve the economic well-being of our neighborhood," he said.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070728/D8QLPJ500.html

[catnhatnh]

1. No-these are lies from AP...

So I doubt, that in fact, he appeals to them...

[MethuenProgressive]

2. ...to clean the pool and wash his limo.

:eyes:

[struggle4progress]

3. Romney wants English-only education (Jan 07)

Updated: Jan 27, 2007 09:06 AM

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday pushed for English-only in educating the country's children. ~snip~

In his campaign for governor, Romney pushed for a ballot initiative to end bilingual education, a measure state voters approved in 2002. ~snip~

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5998063

[MidwestTransplant]

12. Romney is on 3 sides of every issue.

[struggle4progress]

4. Romney decries 'amnesty' bill (May 07)

Sunday, May 20, 2007
By Jim Davenport
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The crowd at South Carolina's Republican convention cheered Saturday when ... presidential candidate Romney told them: "One simple rule: No amnesty." ....

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660222277,00.html

[struggle4progress]

5. Romney calls for border barrier

Elections: In Dallas stop, hopeful presents immigration plan
10:18 AM CDT on Thursday, April 12, 2007
By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News
[e-mail]

Presidential contender Mitt Romney presented his immigration plan Wednesday, telling Dallas County Republicans that the country should erect a barrier along its border with Mexico ...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-romney_12tex.ART.State.Edition1.44a05e1.html


Two cousins, two countries: A family split in half
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | June 25, 2007

COLONIA JUAREZ, Mexico --Mike Romney, a school administrator in this small town in the Mexican desert, and Mitt Romney, a candidate for president of the United States, have never met. But the two distant cousins are just a year apart in age, and both are descendants of the same great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, who fled the United States and, at the direction of church leaders, helped create this colony 122 years ago as a refuge for polygamous Mormons. The distance between the lives of Mike and Mitt Romney underscores the little-known story of how the Romney family split in two on a fateful day 95 years ago, when Mexican revolutionaries forced most Mormons to leave the colony. Mike Romney's family quickly returned to Mexico, after the threat passed, while Mitt Romney's family stayed in the United States ... http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part2_side/

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. how to lie by headline:

Though factual, the headline is a lie. Accurately stated it would read:
Romney Makes an Appeal to Hispanics; not Romney Appeals to Hispanics.

Nothing in the article says how hispanics are reacting to him, therefore, Romney Makes an Appeal to Hispanics is correct.

[struggle4progress]

7. (Romney blows off La Raza)

Posted on Mon, Jul. 23, 2007
Clinton, Obama address La Raza

Two of the leading Democratic presidential candidates, but none of the Republican contenders, addressed the National Council of La Raza convention Sunday in Miami Beach.

BY BETH REINHARD
[e-mail]

... The three leading Republican candidates -- Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain -- did not attend. They also turned down invitations to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference in Orlando last month, though all of the major Democratic candidates were there ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/179043.html

[triguy46]

8. So which appeals is it?

Who is the copy editor? Appeal as a plea, which he needs to do to convince those he wishes to oppress that the oppression is actually good for them? Or, appeal, as being attractive?

Yeah, I know the former, just being pissy. Sorry.

[Mz Pip]

9. Appeals = Begs

I don't think this means any of them really LIKE the guy.

He's just pleading with them to like him. More like begging really. Maybe he's promising not to torture their dogs in exchange for votes.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[tanyev]

10. Romney promises not to put any of them in large carriers and strap them to the top of his car.

[ladywnch]

11. Romney Appeals to Hispanics........I doubt that.......eom

[Endangered Specie]

13. Hah thats like Buchanan appealing to Jews.

[slackmaster]

14. Trying to treat Hispanics as a unified voting bloc is horseshit

They are about as diverse as the general population.