{"id":1404,"date":"2004-03-15T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1404.html"},"modified":"2004-03-15T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T18:10:02","slug":"about-that-republican-outreach-to-the-latino-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/about-that-republican-outreach-to-the-latino-community\/","title":{"rendered":"About that Republican outreach to the Latino community&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed, <a href=\"http:\/\/counterspin.blogspot.com\/2004_03_14_counterspin_archive.html#107924944077515648\">via Hesiod<\/a>, that yet another Republican has offended yet another minority group. This time, it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channeloklahoma.com\/news\/2918251\/detail.html\">Latino community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Latino leaders [in Oklahoma] say they&#8217;re outraged at an Oklahoma lawmaker&#8217;s comment that there are too many &#8220;Mexicans and Hispanics&#8221; coming to live in the state. <\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City Republican Bill Graves made the comment Tuesday while debating a bill that would&#8217;ve established a state Latino Affairs Commission. <\/p>\n<p>Graves said, &#8220;We do have a lot of Mexicans and Hispanics that want to come here and live, and frankly, I think we&#8217;re getting too many.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I keep hearing about the Republicans&#8217; almost-desperate desire to appeal to Hispanic-American voters. Call me crazy, but I don&#8217;t imagine incidents like these will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed, via Hesiod, that yet another Republican has offended yet another minority group. This time, it&#8217;s the Latino community. Latino leaders [in Oklahoma] say they&#8217;re outraged at an Oklahoma lawmaker&#8217;s comment that there are too many &#8220;Mexicans and Hispanics&#8221; coming to live in the state. Oklahoma City Republican Bill Graves made the comment Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}