HP Reports: Wacko Teaparty Congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) hired wacko, racist radio show host Joyce Kaufman. Some of her her most combative statements include:* In August 2007, when discussing illegal immigrants, she said on her show, "If you commit a crime while you're here, we should hang you and send your body back to where you came from, and your family should pay for it."
* She became infuriated at illegal immigration after she called Comcast and the recording said, "Press 2 for Spanish."
* She said at a rally, with West standing by, "Calling illegal immigrants 'undocumented workers' is like calling a drug dealer a pharmacist without a license." She was furious that children of illegal immigrants were educated in public schools and received health care at emergency rooms. "There are people who want to change your way of life, and some of them may be your gardeners," she said.
The Florida Independent also notes Kaufman has rarely spared Muslims from her harsh words, and, according to the Washington Post's transcript of her show Tuesday, she referred to Democratic leaders such as outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as "garbage":
"Over these months I have been blessed to form very wonderful relationships with the West family," Kaufman said, adding that she had been a supporter of his campaign. "I looked at this family and [told] myself, how do you not fight and put them up on the pedestal when we've got this garbage up on the pedestal now, people like Nancy Pelosi?"
Bloomberg : Latinos will be 20% of the U. S. elecorate in year 2030 - For the third straight election, Latinos picked Democrats over Republicans by a ratio of 2-to-1, strengthening the party’s hold on this important voting bloc. The Democrats today owe their majority in the Senate to the Hispanic vote
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Democrats Consoled by Latino Vote in Republican `Game Changer'
By Catherine Dodge and Traci McMillan
November 9, 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-09/democrats-consoled-by-latino-support-in-republican-game-changer-election.html
Some excerpts :
In Nevada, exit polling shows that Hispanic voters helped Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid hold on to his seat. They also proved crucial to wins by Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer in California, Michael Bennet in Colorado and Patty Murray in Washington, Amandi said.
“I wouldn’t have been surprised if Harry Reid gave his victory speech in Spanish,” he said. “The Democrats today owe their majority in the Senate to the Hispanic vote.”
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Hispanics chose Democrats over Republican candidates, 64 percent to 34 percent nationwide, according to figures from the Pew Hispanic Center.
Polling by Pew shows that about half of registered Latino voters say Democrats care more about their concerns, compared with 6 percent who say Republicans care more. The remainder finds no difference between the parties on that question.
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William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said Hispanic voters are becoming increasingly important in such states as California, Colorado and Nevada.
While Hispanics made up 8 percent of the national electorate, they constituted 22 percent in California, 15 percent in Nevada and 13 percent in Colorado, according to exit polls.
“The fastest-growing parts of our population are young people and Hispanics,” Frey said. “Republicans still didn’t do as well among those groups.”
Democrats will be counting on support from Hispanics to blunt the effects of the Republican-led redistricting in many states.
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