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Southwest Collection Buk RIM er T etas T ec 11 Hew U. S Postagr Lobbock, TX 73401 Paid Lubbock Ti panic Role in E I acting a President Peen )SS By , _.ertheless, pleading limited funds and They won the state even though three out of legendary legislator Henry B. Gonzalez with 64 An axiom of politics is don't waste time, political infrastructure, Republicans this year four Latinos there voted for Clinton. percent, even through the Express-News money and effort on voter blocs that are made only token efforts for Hispanic support, They were wrong about Florida, where twitted him by endorsing his Republican considered too small or intransigent to make a even in Texas, California and Florida. In Hispanics, mostly Cubans, comprise 8 percent challenger. difference. The Republicans seem to have Texas, they believed they could concede this of the voters. In 1996, the state's Latinos gave Even Democrat Victor Morales, the Texas made that early assumption about the vote and still win because of their overall Clinton 44 percent of their vote, double the 22 schoolteacher running for political office for the H ispanic vote in this strength percent he received in 1992. Dole got 46 first time against incumbent Sen. Phil Gramm, year's presidential race there. Percent. did better than expected. Morales got 44 and took it to heart It was The GOP got clobbered as predicted in percent of the vote, even though he was short during the campaign. different in California, with a big assist from Hispanics on money, experience and adequate support No meaningful California. who checked Clinton's name on 86 percent of from the Democratic election machine. strategy was created to The GOP their ballots, according to exit polls. While the Hispanic vote was far from the favor gain among viewed New York wasn't any decisive factor in Dole's Hispanic voters for Bob Hispanics better for the GOP. loss, the Dole camp Dole, no experienced as a lost There, exit polls show erred in ignoring it. In political operatives cause 91 percent of the the year 2000 and were recruited, and few because of Hispanic vote, largely forever after, the funds were committed. the Puerto Rican, went for Hispanic vote can be the In short, there was no anathema Clinton. decisive factor in dose serious GOP quest for toward In Chicago, another presidential races. H ispanic support Gov. Pete large Hispanic enclave, No one should be The Republicans Wilson and incumbent Democratic lulled into believing that didn't give much unpopular Congressman Luis Hispanic Democrats credence to the fact that the Hispanic vote grew issues like affirmative action and immigration Gutierrez received 94 today are Democrats by 30 percent over the 1992 total with 6.6 policy, which Latinos equated with the Dole Percent of the vote in hi , forever. Three of the 18 million Latinos registered in 1996. At least 5 platform. Nevertheless, the Republicans made ethnic district, offering Hispanic members of million voted, according to the Southwest Voter a big assault in the last weeks, hoping to Clinton a reverse Congress - two from Registration Education Project . rekindle California's conservative bent, with coattail ride. Florida, one from Texas True Hispanics mostly Mexican Americans perhaps some help from the legacies of native That was the tale in are Republican. All won in the Southwest and Puerto Ricans in the sons Nixon and Reagan other states where reelection easily in East - are predominantly Democrats and vote The GOP figured Florida's Cubans were a Hispanic Democrats wore heavily Hispanic likewise. lock considering their fervent party support in by large margi.ns.l districts. And, for the Nevertheless, it's a big hunk of votes, the past But they underestimated President Nationally, Clinton received 72 percent of the first time in memory, a Latino Republican was particularly when they are concentrated in Clinton's recent overtures to the exile Hispanic vote, Dole 21 percent. Overall, elected to the California Assembly. cluster areas in key states. Handled well, they community with his anti-Castro policy Hispanics voted for Democrats over The lesson learned is that the Hispanic can elect you a member of Congress and help initiatives. Republicans, 74 percent vs. 24 percent. constituency will respond, right or wrong, to out with a senator and, of course, a As for other states with large clusters of Democratic Congresswoman Lucille Roybal- the issues and the appeal. Let the politician presidential candidate. Hispanic voters, they simply left it to Dole's Allard of East Los Angeles won reelection with beware if he thinks otherwise The campaigns of Richard Nixon and Ronald overall appeal of decency, experience and 82 percent of the vote, and in New York, Jose (Carlo• Conde of Washington, D.C. has worked in Reagan -- and to a certain extent, George Bush family values. These would play well, they felt. Serrano won with 96 percent. government and journalism in Texas, Washington, D.C. and Latin America. He was a Whit. House press officer -- successfully courted this vote in some key Well, the Republicans were right about All of the Democrat Hispanic House members under President Richard Nixon.) vote-rich states. Texas. They didn't need the Hispanic vote. won by large margins, including San Antonio's (cl 1996, Hispanic Link News ^................\....... \ .\.\.......... r\.... ...^ ......... .......... ^.... \..... ... ..,.........; ., . . :... • Oki 9 % ;rief '^ ^ ^ News s • " El Respeto ^--^^^ ^ ^ ^ t Al ^ at 'rank Derecho Ajeno . , .- . gotta ^ ^ ^ a^ ^ V ^ 9 Es La Paz" !^ ^' ^ ^ ^ ^ * 1/3 of all Homeless are Vets ^ ^ 40 One in every three homeless men seeking refuge at a network Lie Benito Juarez 1i et ' ^ r ^ ^ O'S ooè oe' 'e°e"eee°êe 00 0^-ee.ê o o s o`reoe eeeê^. of shelters is a veteran, a survey released Saturday showed. The ESTA BI.ECIDO ; ^ ° 1977 !!R\ . :`>'®90^^Y^:'@'+a +yde'4 ^ °:^ R f ¢►l t-f, ;:^ figure far exceeds the percentage of veterans in the overall popula- CSTAHLISIII:I) 1977 ..:...:. .4, Â `' ! /^ .^, tion or of male veterans among all American males, according to r i ^8^^ 7 ,^^w .^ oVr0 ii+l ^t^•. .a.^7!7^/î?^ 4 ^ î,^ ` 1`6I.i,^^vw'wi_\_ , AP reports. afvvsr xe vvvvvvvst vvvV' vipt vvvNPX' Sly vs. xvsney sf xr vflf sf vvvst vvVW vSr va•S:St.Sr vvvvvstse xe sf xvxSt ‚S vx.r.sflvst st v.risW ^!• The International Union of Gospel Missions survey, conducted at 133 shelters across the country, found that 34 percent of the Vol XX No. 7 Week of November 14 to November 20, 1996 Lubbock, Texas 10,400 men seeking refuge were veterans of war or military serv- ice The union has conducted the survey for the past eight years. In 1991 the survey showed 29 percent veterans, a figure that remained stable until 1993. Then it began a steady increase to Corn entarios EI Papal de los Hispanos the current level. By comparison, the Veterans Administration estimates there de Bidal are almost 27 million veterans in all, about one in 10 of the total by Bidul AKtlero Que Surge en la Elecciön population Male veterans represent about 19 percent of the male Most politicians only tell population. you what they want you to National statistics on the homeless vary widely. In 1994, a know via commercials and de un Presidente Clinton administration task force estimated that 7 million Ameri- every now and then new Por Carlos cans were homeless sometime during the second half of the conferences which leave very Conde 1980s, far more than 1990 Census calculation of 600,000 people. little room for Un axioma en la politica no malgastar tiempo, dinero y esfuerzo en bloques de electores a specific Of the 7 million total, the government estimated that half a mil- questions los que se les considera demasiado pequenlos o intransigentes como para hacer una lion, or about 7 percent, were veterans. from people diferencia. Los republicanos parecen haber hecho temprano esa presunci6n sobre los votes that want to More recently, the VA put the number of homeless veterans at hispanos en la contienda presidential de este afto, y la tomaron en serio durante la know how about 250,000. camparla. the candi- No se cre6 ninguna estrategia dates really importante para obtener favor entre los stand on the Clinton: Incremental issues. electores hispanos pare Bob Dole; no se One of the reclut6 a operadores politicos Health-Care Reform experimentados, y pocos fondos fueron only ways Administration officials said President Clinton and his aides that is left to find out what a asignados. En resumen, no hubo una are developing incremental proposals to fill gaps in health candidate's record is, is to do büsqueda aerie por parte del Partido insurance coverage, reports The New York Times. research. This take time and Republican en cuanto al apoyo hispano. The proposals, to help provide coverage for some of the nation's time is something that not a Los republicanos no le dieron mucho 10 million uninsured children and to help pay premiums for work- lot of us have to spare. credito al hecho de que la votaci6n ers who are between jobs, look more feasible now because medi- There has been lots of talk hispana creci6 en un 30 por ciento sobre el during the campaign about cal costs are coming under control. welfare reform and the total de 1992, con 6.6 millones de latinos Donna Shalala said last week that the administration would inscritos para voter en 1996. Por to try to expand coverage step by step, rather than by proposing a direction the State will take menos 5 millones votaron, segtin el concerning this issue.

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