The guy who told Latinos not to vote is now pushing the "Tequila Party"

[KamaAina]

!Ay, caramba!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101129/ts_yblog_thelookout/inspired-by-tea-party-success-latinos-float-tequila-party-grassroots-movement

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....

"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.

In the midterm elections, 64 percent of Latinos voted Democratic, and in Nevada, analysts agree that Latinos' votes were responsible for Sen. Harry Reid's re-election....

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."

Curious, indeed. And since when does 64 percent (much less in some states like FL) equal "blind support"? :eyes:

[EFerrari]

1. Ha! Figures.

He sounded about as dumb as a right wing PR flak. :)

[lunamagica]

5. Just the name is pretty insulting, This won't get off the ground.nt

[Ian David]

2. They want to Naderize the elections. n/t

[sdfernando]

3. WOW...

If I think hard enough I might be able to come up with a more offensive name than "Tequila Party"....he should be ashamed!

[laconicsax]

4. I've been to a tequila party, it wasn't as fun as you might think...

...so much vomit...:scared:

[EFerrari]

7. It's much faster to just hit yourself on the head with an axe. n/t

[notadmblnd]

6. Oh, that'l go places

:eyes:

[UTUSN]

8. K&R #4 for awareness!!1 n/t

[applegrove]

9. Funded by the likes of the Koches, etc. They can't stand that their party is

divided. They want the situation like we have in Canada where it doesn't matter how many on the left vote for the Prime Minister the neocons always win because the left is all split up in Canada.

There was a time a decade ago where the right wing of the right had split from the progressive conservatives and it was them that lost elections. But they joined up together and formed a new party. And now our PM is always a neocon.

[alp227]

10. I read this article, de Posada was just commenting on the idea.

"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.

[AsahinaKimi]

11. She would love it

Tila Tequila