Tag Archives: republican
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...
“Juntos con Romney” & “El Presidente Nos Apoya”–In Inglés Pu-leaze
June 7, 2012
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Maybe all those dreams I had in the Fall with Mitt Romney confirmed my hunch that he and I have a connection that goes beyond politics, that we are connected deep in our psyches. As I have written most recently 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: 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...
Cinco de Mayo: TWLC Goes to the White House–Sheep or Wolf?
May 4, 2012
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In five and a half years of living and reporting in Washington, DC I had only been to the White House twice, once to shoot a stand up for a news story and the other time as a guest of Read More...
Election 2012: The Mami Wars
May 1, 2012
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My friends call me Sah-rah Palín–the Latina Sarah Palin–because I am so critical of the “mainstream media” as it concerns the lack of diversity, especially at the decision-making level. The Mommy Wars debate reignited by Hilary Rosen‘s comment on CNN that Read More...
In Latina Magazine: Election 2012: Forever Young, or Not
April 27, 2012
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Desencanto–the profound disillusionment we feel when someone lets us down, when innocence is lost, when the rose-colored glasses or beer googles are yanked off. Latinos have felt this way about President Barack Obama for a while, as I have extensively Read More...
In Latina Magazine: Election 2012: Can the Republican Party Become a “Latino” Party?
April 26, 2012
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I was chatting with #TwitterBrotherFromAnotherMother since we may be teaming up on a voter registration drive/civic engagement effort and we got to talking about the big elefante político in the Election 2012 room. Is the GOP writing off Hispanics in November? Read More...
