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My Vote is Supreme
July 6, 2012
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I was guest anchoring on NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin while she was away when the Supreme Court announced its decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This is President Obama’s signature legislation that makes health care insurance mandatory. (Or face a fine, as Read More...
Will Deportation Announcement Make Latinos Vote?
July 5, 2012
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Latinos’ enthusiasm and energy after President Obama announced young student or military illegal immigrants would not be deported could have powered a small city for a month. Now the devil is in the details: how is the policy going to Read More...
The Urgency of Presente
June 19, 2012
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I wish I was the Ezra Klein kind of writer who is fabled to churn out witty, incisive, and relevant copy in 20 minutes. Until this weekly politics column I write for Latina Magazine. I wrote it one day before President Read More...
Candidate Impulso: Cristina’s or the Economy’s?
June 18, 2012
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Cristina Saralegui, better known to Latinos simply as “Cristina” is Spanish-language TV’s Oprah. Her popular talk show El show de Cristina for 21 years beginning in 1989 made her beloved among U.S. Hispanics who felt no one was speaking to them Read More...
Dos Mujeres, una Elección
June 13, 2012
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Isn’t it nice when someone’s got the hots for you, when you’ve got something he wants? In this case it’s women, a coveted voting bloc by both Republicans and Democrats because like our seniors, they show up on Election day. (Take Read More...
“Dream a Little Bigger,” Unless You’re a DREAMer
June 1, 2012
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Ignore. Shhh. Keep Quiet. That’s the campaign’s strategy on immigration since the GOP Presidential debates. Mitt Romney supports legal immigration, a position that breaks with the fringe such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform which does not support any Read More...
Election 2012: Latina Bloggers Go to the White House
May 24, 2012
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Sometimes I wonder when I’m going to arrive at the White House and have security pluck me away, throw me in a Midnight Express cell, and throw away the key forever. Guilty of being critical, obsessively at times, and holding Read More...
Election 2012: Same-Sex Marriage Now, Immigration Policy Later?
May 17, 2012
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So here I was mindin’ my own business at a spontaneous Wednesday Happy Hour on a gorgeous, balmy perfect DC PM when my friend ripped into me over my latest Latina Magazine column. “Don’t you realize that President Obama is the President, Read More...