PHOENIX (AP) - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he'll meet Monday with Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain before the candidate attends a GOP fundraiser in Phoenix.Arpaio says Cain will be the fourth GOP presidential candidate who sought his endorsement this year.
The sheriff hasn't yet endorsed any candidate, but backed Mitt Romney in 2008.
Arpaio met with candidate Michele Bachmann last month and says he spoke on the phone recently with Romney and Rick Perry.
Arpaio says he has talked to them on subjects ranging from military service and family to the sheriff's jail tents and immigration enforcement.
He says none of the candidates has raised the federal civil rights investigation of Arpaio's immigration efforts and a federal grand jury that's investigating allegations that the sheriff's office abused its powers.
Tucson Citizen : Long-life Texas GOP Latino Leader Leaves Republican Party After Herman Cain Advocates the Death of Immigrants - Somos Republicans Texas State Director Lauro Antonio Garza is repelled by Republican Hatred against Latinos
ReplyDeleteLauro is a long life Republican, staunch advocate of 2nd amendment rights and hunts religiously. He is one of the most pro life activists ever known to man in Tejano history.
Tucson Citizen
Long-life Texas GOP Latino Leader Leaves Republican Party After Herman Cain Advocates the Death of Immigrants
October 17, 2011
by DeeDee Garcia
DeeDee Garcia Blase is the founder of the largest Hispanic Republican group in the nation that began in Arizona and later grew out of crisis during an anti-immigrant fevered pitch era. She is now the President of a non partisan National Tequila Party Movement. Leadership consists of Democrats, Independents and Republicans with a mission of getting out the Latino Vote for the purpose of promoting immigrant friendly politicians. The Tequila Party is a counter movement to extreme Tea Party Republicans. The Tequila Party hopes to provide pro-immigrant political covering to politicians in high Hispanic populated states and key Presidential election swing states.
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Some excerpts :
The Declaration of "Somos Republicans" Texas State Director Lauro Antonio Garza
Today, we find the Republican Party has strayed from its roots and its founding principals so far that they can no longer be seen. We saw this yesterday, in the glare of broad daylight, when a leading presidential candidate, Herman Cain, not once, but twice, advocated for the murder of innocent people and that was met with cheers!Somos Republicans, America’s largest organization of conservative Hispanics, was alone in its criticism of this loud mouth hateful bigot. He says he was “joking.” Nobody here is laughing! The fact the GOP allows and applauds such outrageous thoughts is beyond reprehensible.
To us, the idea of allegedly “Pro-Life” people shouting for the un-Constitutional use of deadly force is unbelievable. Then, too, we shouldn’t be surprised since Republican leaders have been advocating for the nullification of the American Constitution in states like Arizona, Georgia and now Alabama. When did Republicans, once synonymous with “conservative,” become so liberal as to attack their very own Bill of Rights in the 4th and 14th Amendments?!
Where is Republican leadership? Where has the guiding principal of “Morality” gone?! If the Republican Party cannot or will not rebuke this hateful bigot and others like him who wear the mantle of “Republican” then perhaps the time has come for a rebuke of the Party itself!
Ronald Reagan left the Democrat Party saying they had left him. Perhaps, I shall do the same because the Republican Party has become radical and unreasonable. President Reagan must be tumbling in his grave!
Lauro Antonio Garza,MPO
Somos Republicans, Texas State Director
October 16, 2011
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