Morning NewsTaco
Friday June 22, 2012
Obama speaks to Latino group, Romney hosts three-day retreat, plus more to watch for this weekend in politics (ABC News): Thursday it was Mitt Romney talking about immigration at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials convention; Friday it will be President Barack Obama speaking at the Tampa, Fla., gathering.
Latino convention speeches a chance for presidential candidates to make inroads with Hispanic voters (MSNBC): MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts is joined by Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart and Voto-Latino Executive Director Maria Teresa Kumar about President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s speeches this week before the NALEO conference and what they could mean for the candidates.
Obama and Romney campaigns apply high tech tools to old school organizing efforts (The Washington Post): The red and blue T-shirts that Mitt Romney campaign volunteers wear in Virginia feature a digital code that voters can zap with their smart phones to learn more about the Republican presidential hopeful.
Excerpts of Romney speech to Latino group (The Palm Beach Post): Here are some excerpts of Mitt Romney‘s prepared remarks to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference.
Romney tells Hispanic group that President Obama takes them for granted (The Hill): Mitt Romney accused President Obama of taking Hispanic voters for granted in a major address Thursday to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
Romney faces skeptical Latino audience (CNN): Mitt Romney will face a skeptical audience that is opposed to nearly all of his positions on illegal immigration when he addresses a conference of Latino leaders in Orlando on Thursday.
Romney Immigration Plan Would Likely Run Into Roadblocks (Fox News Latino): Courting Latino voters, Mitt Romney is promising to ease the path to a green card, fix a complicated and cumbersome system to let farm workers into the United States and finish a high-tech fence along the Mexican border.
Will Demography Save Obama? (The New Yorker): In addition to prognosticating and spouting off on a daily basis, I’ve decided to post some in-depth interviews with campaign officials, politicians, policy wonks, and others with something worthwhile to say. The first one, which you can read in full below, is with Ruy Teixeira, a senior fellow at the Center for Economic Progress and at the Century Foundation.
Texas braces for major Supreme Court decisions on immigration, ObamaCare (Houston Chronicle): Before adjourning for the summer on June 25, the nation’s highest court is set to pass judgment on two of the most politically charged cases of the past decade — the “ObamaCare” health reform law that is the first-term president’s proudest legislative achievement and the tough Arizona immigration enforcement law that has enraged Latino civil rights groups and hard-core Democratic activists.
Texas university news program trains future Hispanic journalists (Fox News Latino): A news program broadcast by the University of Texas at Arlington offers Hispanic students the chance to widen their knowledge of journalism and so prepares them for a career in the nation’s Spanish-language media.
