Rubio is not ready to be president, Gonzales said, and the vice president “must be ready on day one.”“Rubio’s resume does not reflect someone prepared to confront serious and dangerous issues that our country faces as president,” Gonzales said.[…]Rubio might generate interest among Latinos “for the first 12 hours if selected for the number two spot, but that won’t last,” Gonzales said.The Republican Party should do more to court Latinos, Gonzales said.“We haven’t seen the GOP reach out to Latino voters (in the primaries). We’ve seen them alienate that vote,” he said.
Gonzales directly questioned the theory that the Cuban-American Rubio alone could bring Latinos back into the GOP fold: “I’ll tell you, the Hispanic vote has to be earned,” Rubio said in an interview with CNN en Español Friday. “You can’t just put somebody on there and say, ‘This is gonna deliver it.’ You’ve got to earn it, and primarily I think you earn it through economic policies.”
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From Felipe Matos for the HuffPost,
On different occasions, several DREAM Act students and I have delivered our sincere request for Mr. Rubio to turn away from his Tea Party opposition to the DREAM Act and other pro-immigrant legislation, and towards supporting the DREAM and other legislation backed by the majority of Latinos in the United States. Rubio’s response? Rubio said we were being manipulated by “a group of organizations that hide behind these poor young people and they use them to raise money for their organization, to be relevant and to attack me personally.” Really?
For Mr. Rubio to think that we as students cannot and do not think for ourselves, for him to believe that students cannot form opinions on the issues that matter most to us is disrespectful and dehumanizing.
Senator Marco Rubio does not speak for Latin@’s. If he is thrusted into the VP position for this election by the GOP, there are groups with tremendous grassroots Latin@ networks that will lead the backlash against him. For the record, the bolded portion is my emphasis. The statement is ridiculous. You’re the self-proclaimed Tea Party guy and you claim that those with the least amount of institutional power are being manipulated to attack you because they denounce your dehumanizing policies? Senator Marco Rubio, what are you smoking and who are you speaking for?
We are here. We are in Arizona, a major Latino state and home of next week’s Republican presidential primary. We are in Florida, another major Latino state and home to one of last month’s primaries. We are in large and small cities across America. DREAMers like us are here, working hard to serve our communities, and all we want is an opportunity to continue our work as residents and citizens.
You rarely leave Washington and Florida. You don’t know Latinos in the rest of the country and polls tell us that most Latinos don’t know you. And you don’t support the DREAM Act and other positive immigration policies strongly supported by most Latinos. So what gives you the authority to speak on behalf of Latinos on immigration?
”Opinion: Dreamers’ Open Letter to Marco Rubio [Fox News Latino]
There’s just so much to add to this piece and I’m not sure where to begin. In a way a part of me would like the GOP to select Senator Rubio as their VP candidate because it has the potential to mobilize millions of voters who have previously felt disenchanted. Sure some of them will support Senator Rubio’s positions on non-immigrations topics, immigration could be a topic that some may be willing to overlook because President Obama and the Democrats have been no friends of Latinos, but I believe a larger portion will ask themselves, “why is the media/ the GOP claiming that Senator Rubio speaks for us?” The may not enjoy what they hear from Senator Rubio.
Also the official stance of this blog is NO SOMOS RUBIOS. [Presente]
PRESENTE.ORG presents NO SOMOS RUBIOS - I am appalled that Senator Marco Rubio is being utilized by the GOP to woo Latin@/ Hispanic voters. Senator Marco Rubio’s positions do not reflect what the very broad Hispanic/Latin@ community would love to see implemented. “No Somos Rubios” is a pun (We Are Not Blonde/Blanco) and the slogan of the campaign to educate voters and the media on these issues.
Republicans want Florida Senator Marco Rubio to be their Vice President.
The GOP thinks that Rubio can “deliver the Latino vote,” but Rubio stands with the Tea Party more than he stands with Latinos on the issues we care
I don’t make many requests on this blog but if you could, please watch and circulate this 1 minute video. We may not have the advertising dollars but we have social media and unconventional techniques.
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PRESENTE.ORG presents NO SOMOS RUBIOS - I am appalled that Senator Marco Rubio is being utilized by the GOP to woo Latin@/ Hispanic voters. Senator Marco Rubio’s positions do not reflect what the very broad Hispanic/Latin@ community would love to see implemented. “No Somos Rubios” is a pun (We Are Not Blonde/Blanco) and the slogan of the campaign to educate voters and the media on these issues.
Republicans want Florida Senator Marco Rubio to be their Vice President.
The GOP thinks that Rubio can “deliver the Latino vote,” but Rubio stands with the Tea Party more than he stands with Latinos on the issues we care
I don’t make many requests on this blog but if you could, please watch and circulate this 1 minute video. We may not have the advertising dollars but we have social media and unconventional techniques.
If you want to know more, visit http://presente.org/
