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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-10 05:06 AM
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Republican ad in Nevada tells Latinos not to vote
Edited on Tue Oct-19-10 05:26 AM by deminks
Voter suppression by rethuglicans



http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/10/just_coming_right_out_saying_it.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Talking-Points-Memo+%28Talking+Points+Memo%3A+by+Joshua+Micah+Marshall%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

There are a lot of subterranean efforts afoot around the country right now to suppress the vote of various racial minorities. But a group styling itself Latinos for Reform is taken a more straightforward approach: their running ads in Nevada asking Latino voters simply not to vote.

(snip)

The ads are the work of Robert Desposada, a Republican political consultant and Univision pundit.

(end snip)

video translated into English at the link.
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mucifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-10 06:38 AM
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1. wow. I don't think that ad is effective. but, you never know. nt
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-10 06:43 AM
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2. It's a despicable ad
n/t
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-10 07:11 AM
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3. Incredible !! Seems Dems should be able to make hay out of a ....
...Republican message that says "don't vote".

I'm amazed they literally said it. One might have expected it to be a tacit message.
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