Inspired by tea party success, Latinos float ‘Tequila Party’ grass-roots movement

[TomCADem]

Source: Yahoo News

Latino leaders in Nevada and around the country are floating the idea of breaking traditional ties with the Democratic Party and creating a grass-roots independent movement tentatively called the Tequila Party. According to Delen Goldberg at the Las Vegas Sun, the leaders want to pressure the Democratic Party to deliver on Latinos' priorities much in the same way the tea party has done with the GOP over the past few years.

Robert de Posada, the former GOP operative behind this fall's controversial "Don't Vote" ads aimed at Latinos in Nevada and California, tells The Lookout that he has heard "rumblings" of this movement among national Latino leaders.

"The Tequila Party is a great concept to basically say, 'You know what? This blind support for you is coming to an end,'" De Posada says. "If you are perceived as someone who will never vote for a Republican, then you're screwed," because Democrats will take you for granted, he says.

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It's curious that Latino leaders are looking to the tea party for organizational inspiration, since many tea party groups supported Arizona's tough immigration law and other enforcement measures. More than 85 percent of Hispanics back comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship, according to a recent poll, and 80 percent disapprove of Arizona's immigration law.


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Another example of corporate astroturf "progressives" attacking Democrats from the left while giving Republicans a free pass. Heck, this so-called Tequila Party of Latinos demanding action by Democrat on immigration reform is being led by a Republican operative.

This so-called Tequila Party is being pushed by much of the cable media, which refuses to call out its obvious astroturf roots, as well as the fact that it represents a bald attempt to suppress the Latino vote by asking Latinos not to support Democrats while giving Republicans a free pass on their support of the Arizona anti-immigration laws.

Of course, by 2012, the Tequila Party will be hailed by the right wing pundits as a genuine grass roots movement while some "progressives" on this board were will happily embrace the rhetoric of self-imposed voter suppression as a means of empowerment.

Also, instead of calling out the corporate funded media for this cynical attempt to suppress turnout in the Latino community, we will be brainwashed into blaming our own for this attack on Democracy.

[EFerrari]

1. I don't think this has anything to do with the left at all.

It's a fake and "Tequila Party" is faintly offensive into the bargain. Whatshisname must be a self hating Latino.

[TomCADem]

3. Las Vegas Sun - "Latino leaders swirl around idea of Tequila Party" - The Real Professional Left...

Are these folks who are paid to act progressive in order to erode support among the Democrats liberal base by attacking Democrats on issues like immigration reform much the same way the Log Cabin Republicans attack President Obama on gay rights while giving Republicans a free pass. Here is another story that completely understates the role of Republican organizers in this Tequila Party that is designed to suppress the Latino vote.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/nov/28/leaders-swirl-around-idea-tequila-party/

Latino leaders in Nevada and nationwide are quietly debating whether to sever their traditional Democratic ties and form an independent grass-roots political group.

The idea, born of frustration over the party’s inaction on immigration reform and fears that as a voting bloc they’re a political afterthought, Latino leaders have discussed the idea among themselves locally and in conference calls with colleagues across the country.

The unlikely model for the movement they would like to launch is the Tea Party — not in substance, of course, but in its grass-roots organizational style. Acknowledging the source of their inspiration, Latino leaders have dubbed the proposed movement the “Tequila Party.”

These Hispanic leaders have noticed that while the Tea Party has had spotty electoral success, it has called attention to its concerns and values and put the establishment on notice

[EFerrari]

4. This whole article is bs built on two Republican sources

and the doubts of an immigration activist. :shrug:

The Tequila Party is still just talk for now, as no Latino leader has publicly backed the scheme.

[TomCADem]

5. Fox News - "Call it the Grand Old Tequila Party" By The "Fox News Latino" - Seriously!

Here is Fox News continuing the myth of a Tequila Party that is not actually being formed by Republicans to siphon off Latino votes from Republicans on progressive issues like immigration reform.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2010/11/30/tequila-caf-party-frat-house-bash-new-political-party/

By Carolyn Salazar

Published November 30, 2010| Fox News Latino

Fed up with both the Democrats and Republicans over an impasse on immigration reform, a growing number of Hispanic activists are discussing the possibility of a breakout party of their own. The idea is still in its early stages, but they hope to emulate the success of the grass-roots Tea Party movement – which shook up last month’s mid-term elections.

And with Hispanic becoming a major force in politics – Latinos are credited with influencing several key races across the country – activists say the time is ripe for Latinos to branch out on their own.

“The empowerment that we have discovered – we don’t want it to just go away. We want to do something with it,” said Fernando Romero, president of the Las Vegas-based Hispanics in Politics, a non-partisan group. “We were impressed, like I think everyone else was, by the strength the Tea Party showed. And we thought, ‘Why not do, basically, the same thing?’”

The months-old Tea Party movement, a loosely organized Conservative group, helped usher in dozens of politicians across the country – many of them come-from-behind Republican candidates who trounced well-known and well-liked incumbents. In states that ranged from South Dakota to New York to Arizona, Tea Party candidates won 29 U.S. House races, five U.S. Senate seats and three gubernatorial seats.

[alp227]

2. "The Washington Times" used "Tequila Party" back in April to demonize the left

"Imagine a group of angry demonstrators toting swastika-festooned protest signs calling politicians Nazis, shouting obscenities and racial remarks and throwing rocks and bottles at police officers sent to keep order. No, these are not Tea Partiers. They are the mob that turned out last week to protest Arizona's new immigration-enforcement law. This group of liberal rowdies has been dubbed the Tequila Party."

- Washington Times editorial from April 28, "Angry, hateful, violent, extremist liberals"

[Ozymanithrax]

6. They successfully used in your face politics and agitation to get their message out...

They successfully primaried those they opposed.

Their track record for winning in the general was less that stellar, but it is a model.

(1) Get loud, noisy, and in the face of politicians.
(2) Agitate by holding protests.
(2) Find populists who epitomize their message to run in selected primaries.
(3) Fight to support their primary winners and use those wins to force every other politician to move in the direction they want (Right).

Though the Tequila party sounds more like a rightwing slur, it makes sense to utilize a model that works.

[AlbertCat]

7. So, is the Guacamole Party the Latino eco-friendly party?

:eyes:

more divisiveness.... from the GOP.

[pam4water]

8. I'll join if it gets a better name :P

[Trajan]

9. This is fucking nonsense ...

and you are catapulting it ...

Your commentary is pretty much nonsense as well .... Extreme speculation about future results and consequences that have no basis in fact whatsoever ...

[EFerrari]

11. Thom reported this straight today, I was surprised

because it seems to be such obvious bulleria.

[TorchTheWitch]

10. the puking blind drunk party?

What a really unbelievably stupid name.