{"id":4152,"date":"2005-05-09T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4152.html"},"modified":"2005-05-09T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T13:50:29","slug":"an-amusing-setback-for-the-gops-hispanic-outreach-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/an-amusing-setback-for-the-gops-hispanic-outreach-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"An amusing setback for the GOP&#8217;s Hispanic outreach efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to issue a statement in recognition of a holiday, you probably should know what the holiday is. When it came to Cinco de Mayo and the House Republican Conference, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/50_112\/hoh\/9185-1.html\">clearly wasn&#8217;t the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The GOP Conference created a sample press release saying, &#8220;Congressman ____________ today marked Cinco de Mayo with the following statement acknowledging the significance of the holiday of independence and of the ties between the United States and Mexico.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was nice of the party to acknowledge the day, but that&#8217;s <i>not<\/i> what Cinco de Mayo represents. (The House Republican Conference was thinking of Diez y Seis de Septiembre, Sept. 16; Cinco de Mayo honors the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t blame the poor Republicans,&#8221; said Matt Miller, spokesman for House Democratic Caucus Chairman Bob Menendez (N.J.). &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to spend 364 days ignoring Hispanics and then pop up for one day to throw back a Corona and celebrate the wrong holiday.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When bad press releases happen to misguided people&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to issue a statement in recognition of a holiday, you probably should know what the holiday is. When it came to Cinco de Mayo and the House Republican Conference, this clearly wasn&#8217;t the case. The GOP Conference created a sample press release saying, &#8220;Congressman ____________ today marked Cinco de Mayo with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}