RSS Feed MenuAs election season swings back into high gear, and pundits and pollsters opine as to whom the likely winners will be, notably absent in all the coverage is the rather large and growing number of minority and urban Republican candidates who are seeking to make their mark in the upcoming election cycle.
While their numbers are small in comparison to the Democrats, their willingness to pursue public service is a testament to each individual. And as someone who has worked on many minority Republican campaigns such races can be the most grueling of sports.
This year they will have a rather unusually large number to go after. Below is a compilation of just a few of the minority and urban Republican candidates who are seeking elected office:
Robert Enriquez: A U.S. citizen, who was born in Honduras in 1956, he arrived in the US at age 13. He was a U.S. Marine Officer on foreign assignments, speaks English and Spanish and is seeking to become the Secretary of State of Illinois.
Ryan Frazier: This African-American Republican has been tagged the conservative version of Obama. He is a 31-year old-city council member from Aurora, Colorado. He wants to be that state’s next Senator. He has won many of the major straw polls and is beloved by many in the conservative base.
Susana Martinez: A district attorney in New Mexico, she has announced that she will run to be governor of the state.
Quang X. Pham: A Vietnamese Republican, is running in California’s 47th Congressional District.
Van Tran: A Vietnamese Republican, he is running in California’s 47th Congressional District. Van Tran is currently serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly representing portions of Orange County.
Esther Velazquez: This Hispanic Republican woman could make history in New Jersey by becoming the first Latino to win a council seat in the Borough of Hightstown
Charles Djou: A Republican from the State of Hawaii. He is currently serving his second term on the Honolulu City Council where he represents District 4. He is seeking a seat in Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District. The seat is currently held by Neil Abercrombie who has since announced that he would run for Governor of Hawaii.
Duke Aiona: The current Lt. Governor of Hawaii. He is seeking to become that state’s governor.
Marco Rubio: In the state of Florida, Rubio, a young Cuban-American, is attracting attention from a conservative base uncomfortable with popular centrist governor Charlie Christ.
Lieutenant Colonel Allen West (US Army, Retired): An African-American candidate in the State of Florida, he is making a run for Florida’s 22nd Congressional District against incumbent Democrat Ron Klein.
Ted Cruz: A 39-year-old graduate of Princeton and Harvard, this Republican is running for Texas Attorney General. Cruz was named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under age the age of 45 in America. He has been hailed as a “rising star” in the Wall Street Journal, and named by the National Law Journal as one of the “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America.”
Louis Huddleston: An African-American candidate for North Carolina’s 8th district. He just returned from fighting in Afghanistan.
Bill Randall: An African-American candidate, is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in North Carolina’s 13th district.
Sasha Gong: An Asian-American Republican who is seeking a seat in the 46th District of the Virginia House of Delegates. Sasha Gong was born in China. At age nine, her family was forced from their home in the city by the communists and sent to a small village. It affected her early education because from age nine she was forced to work on a farm and later in a factory.
Isaac Hayes: An African-American, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago. Hayes is running against Jesse Jackson, Jr., to represent Illinois’ 2nd Congressional district.
Ashok Chandra: A rising star in the New York City Republican community. Chandra is running for city council in New York City.
Nikki Haley: The first Indian-American Republican state legislator in the U.S., Haley is currently running for the Republican nomination for Governor of South Carolina.
Irene Kim Asbury: This Korean-American Republican is running for New Jersey’s 31st District, which includes Jersey City and Bayonne. Her opponent, a Democrat, is under investigation and was asked to resign by Gov. Jon Corzine.
The list, of course, goes on and on with similar examples all over the nation. Whether or not they can win is anyone’s guess; but their presence in a Republican Party that is often ridiculed for being out to lunch on both minority and urban issues should not be taken for granted.
EscapeVelocity // Oct 5, 2009 at 3:53 pm
So we have the Left promoting Indentity Politics, and very successfully. Gaining votes for their efforts to split people into groups and inflame resentment of other groups to keep them voting. Followed up by special rights and preferences and privileges and payouts.
The natural reaction to this is that eventually, certain groups precluded by PC from participating and who are therefore the losers in this game, because they arent even let onto the field and any greivance aired about this situation is derided as hatefilled racist blah blah blah.
Well the end result is that they will organize into Identity Political groups, and the end result isnt going to be enjoyable for the coalition that the Left has formed. But its the Left that is driving this situation….they are responsible for the creation of this divisive identity political atmosphere and climate.
Of course they will keep blaming the same peoples and groups they always blame and villify. If we could just kill the Jews and Whitey, then we could live in a Socialist paradise of radical egalitarianism, multicultural diversity celebration.
Rollseyes
balconesfault // Oct 5, 2009 at 4:11 pm
If we could just kill the Jews and Whitey, then we could live in a Socialist paradise of radical egalitarianism, multicultural diversity celebration.
Because God knows that the Jews have never been attacked as being communists/socialists.
Brittanicus // Oct 5, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Other amendment to the (IRCA) law can be added, but the majority of public opinion demands no path to citizenship or BLANKET AMNESTY. Leave America and apply for an immigration entry visa like honest potential immigrants have for years? If you live in America previously without THE PEOPLES PERMISSION, you will be subject to fines, but not necessarily exempt from an entrance visa. Criminal aliens and anarchists obviously must remain–persona none gratis. A points system must be enacted similar to countries in Europe and even Australia. Points are observed for special highly skilled individuals, specialty engineers, scientists and computer specialists and other equally outstanding credentialed labor that has no equal in our nation.
The deterrent for smuggling yourself and family members into a sovereign country, with no longer is a civil offense. Every business within the jurisdiction of these United States and its territories and islands will be instructed to install E-Verify permanently. A mandatory directive will include criminal penalties for not operating the E-Verification application in all employment. No working person shall be exempt including those who have been on payroll for twenty years or more. New immigrants cannot access any welfare or government subsidies, unless under emergency status. A new stage 2 E-Verify modified to check the persons right to health care, drivers licenses, car insurance, real estate including home purchase. E-Verify could also be adapted to vet a persons voting status in coming elections to halt violations of the law. Within the local Social Security administration those who have remained in limbo, can be verified for any number of irregularities.
In time as E-Verify and its innovations are upgraded, with biometric and photo recognition improvements, the system will certainly pay for itself. Chances are in the coming months rogue politicians whose immigration grading can be viewed on NUMBERSUSA, will try to weaken or drop E-Verify for the favors they owe the US Chamber of Commerce and the nausating special interest groups? Just as they are accomplishing breaking down 287 G, police immigration questioning. ICE raids and other enforcement tools. As I have said before this is all about ECONOMICS. ITS about deteriorating infrastructure, its about the Census bureau stating that in the year 2050, the nation’s population is projected to increase by nearly 130 million people — the equivalent of adding another four states the size of California. Understand about this physical nightmare at CAPSWEB. In conclusion, there is much more information about the corruption in our political parties; not just immigration at the JUDICIAL WATCH site.
A mandated law must be authored that renegade businesses who employ illegal entrants, must be held accountable for the huge bills that hospitals and taxpayers get stuck with?
PAY ATTENTION to the fact that the present Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is currently endorsing San Francisco’s–Sanctuary City–Liberal/Socialist Mayor Gavin Newsom for the new Governor of the State. This would be an absolute atrocity to the legal communities, when Newsom allowed ID for illegal aliens and refused to put young illegal immigrant gang members in the hands of ICE? Indirectly the sanctuary policy that was indifferent to Federal law, was an accessory in the June 22 slaying’s of Anthony Bologna and his sons Michael and Matthew. There is already a mayor in Los Angeles who supports the illegal immigrant invasion, so you definitely don’t want Gavin Newsom giving bogus identification or welcoming millions more illegal families to extract subsidies from the already cash-strapped Californians.
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Brittanicus // Oct 5, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Its likely there is going to be a nasty battle ahead over comprehensive immigration reform? My thought is that instead of starting from scratch, like the open border insane society is demanding we should fabricate amendments into the 1986 Simpson Mazzoli bill. First and foremost the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), was full of loopholes. Its main content was to legalize guest workers, whose labor was mostly spent in agriculture. The problem that once legalized, they vanished from the fields and orchards, taking jobs on Main Street, stealing jobs from Americans. The numbers of illegal aliens escalated, because the perforated borders and limited border patrol agents led to floods of more foreign nationals skirting our national border.
Farmers, agriculturists and businesses had to seek more workers once again, so the borders remained intentionally open thanks to Democrats and Republicans. So instead of the estimated 3.5 newcomers the actual figure was more like 5 million, with more crossing the inept border incessantly. Most of the new entrants lied about their period of residency and produced utility bills and other bogus documentation, including fraudulent affidavits. So the prior (INS) Immigration & Naturalization Service couldn’t attempt to handle the overwhelming influx of illegal immigrants applying? Now President Osama and his Democratic happy faces want to swamp us yet again, with an estimated 20 plus illegal immigrants already squatting here? Even today the doors remain wide open, because the political parties under funded the real border fence, originally drafted by Rep. Duncan Hunter of California. His short 50 mile fence in San Diego, California is double tiered, with a no-mans-land between for border patrol vehicles to make their inspection tours.
The fence that crosses America is–ONE STRAND BARRIER–and in many places doesn’t exist at all, except for ailing cameras, sensors and other vehicle barriers? Now if the powers in Washington had any brains, they could amend the (IRCA) law? First is agriculture that wants Guest Workers to pick fruit and vegetables, they must be issued a special visa limited to a specific time. They cannot work outside that boundary and must return to their country of residence after the document expires. If they want at some point in time to qualify for permanent legal status, they must apply like all new immigrants through their embassy. There fingerprints and other data should be recorded just in case they disappear from the workplace and placed on an arrest list by ICE.
balconesfault // Oct 5, 2009 at 6:13 pm
How about employer penalties. Do away with all the criminal proceedings, except for evasion. Instead, create a program where employers must pay into a general fund for the state for each undocumented worker they employ, in order to offset costs to the state services from undocumented immigrants. And make harsh penalties for failure to pay into the fund.
Mesh that in with your Guest Workers program. And deny instant citizenship to children of undocumented aliens born in the US – require a notation on the birth certificate of the residency/citizenship status of both parents.
sinz54 // Oct 6, 2009 at 10:13 am
balconesfault: And deny instant citizenship to children of undocumented aliens born in the US
Absolutely unconstitutional.
The Fourteenth Amendment states:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”
To deny birthright citizenship would require a Constitutional Amendment.
balconesfault // Oct 6, 2009 at 11:45 am
Yep. you’re right. Should always check the big doc before suggesting legislation.
EscapeVelocity // Oct 6, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Constitutional Amendment indeed.
However Leftwingers are used to bypassing the Constitution through “reinterpretation.”
That doesnt mean we couldnt remove the clause that is being abused in order to take advantage of Americans….the correct way, through the Amendment Process. However its always an option, thanks to the Left for creating the environment.
Personally, I thought that Bush should have expanded the Supreme Court and stacked it with Conservatives ala FDR.
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