Over the past few days, NDN and its team have been cited in numerous articles on a slew of topics from Immigration and Florida to the 2008 campaign. Check some of them out below.
Florida election a barometer for country, Miami Herald - Marc Caputo and Lesley Clark make the case for Florida to be the deciding factor in the Presidential election:
"It's clear the Hispanic vote is influencing this election," said Joe Garcia, Hispanic outreach coordinator for the New Democrat Network. "And it will influence the nation's."
(Read the same article, La Florida se convierte en el centro de la poltica, in Spanish.)
The Early Word: Florida Fight Time, New York Times Blog, "The Caucus" - Ariel Alexovich previews the Republican primary in Florida while offering an opinion of the role Floridians will play in the months ahead. She uses a familiar quote in her piece:
‘’It’s clear the Hispanic vote is influencing this election,'’ said Joe Garcia, Hispanic outreach coordinator for the New Democrat Network. “And it will influence the nation’s.”
Competition fierce for zero delegates in Florida, Los Angeles Times - Mark Barabek takes a look at the unique situation in Florida and how the Democratic candidates have approached it:
"I've never seen a reporter standing in a cornfield in November saying, 'It all comes down to Iowa.' Nobody cares what happens in Iowa," said Joe Garcia, chairman of the Democratic Party in Miami-Dade County. "With a woman or an African American at the top of the ticket, show me another Southern state they're going to carry, except Florida. We're going to see a lot of them from the end of February on."
New Generation Casts Votes on Immigration, Economic Issues, Washington Post - Peter Whoriskey discusses an omnipresent factor regarding Florida politics, the Cuban vote:
About two-thirds of Cuban American voters are registered Republicans, though that number has been slipping. For years, politicians have courted them by opposing the Cuban president and promising aggressive bans on trade and travel to the island nation. In a debate at the University of Miami, the Republican candidates followed that line.
"The only thing they didn't promise was that the 82nd Airborne would be at the disposal of the Cuban American community," said Joe Garcia, former director of the Cuban American National Foundation and now director of NDN's Hispanic Strategy Center.
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"Every other Republican candidate is poison on that issue," Garcia said. "Most immigrants realize that the immigration debate is not about immigration. It's about xenophobia at best and racism at worst."
Dems battling for Latino voters in state, San Francisco Chronicle - Tyche Hendricks highlights the importance of the Latino vote - as well as the choice they face in selecting a candidate - in key Feb. 5th states like California:
"Latinos are clearly going to play a huge role on Feb. 5," said Simon Rosenberg, who is not affiliated with any candidate. He is head of the New Democrat Network, based in Washington, D.C., a progressive strategy group. "There's no way to run a significant campaign in California without making Hispanics a priority," Rosenberg said.
Immigration issue killed Romney in Florida - Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zúniga cites Simon's blog post when attributing Mitt Romney's Florida loss to his poor showing among Hispanics.