Latinos

DENVER– Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff minutes ago announced that he was rededicated to his primary campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. He told a crowd of roughly sixty people gathered outside his campaign headquarters here that he called this fraught press conference only to “clear the air,” explaining that he had received hundreds of emails and phone calls over the past week urging him to drop his Senate bid to run for governor in the wake of news that Gov. Bill Ritter would not seek a second term. Politics watchers in the state expected he might declare that he planned to run as lieutenant governor on a ticket topped by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. Romanoff sought to put an end to any speculation along those lines.

“I am running for U.S. Senate,” he said. “I will not accept any other job offers.”

Early next year, minority advocates will face off against the religious right in what statesman.com called “a fight…that could make the last one look like a mild skirmish.”
The setting is the Texas Board of Education social studies hearings. Like Colorado, Texas is in the middle of revising its school standards. And the enormous Texas education [...]

In light of generalized fear of census authorities on the part of Latinos and a proposed Latino boycott of the 2010 census, the U.S. Census Bureau has been exploring ways to ensure participation within the national Latino community.
Census-taking is scheduled to begin in April, which means the Regional Bureau has six months to convince [...]

Senate Minority Leader and candidate for governor Josh Penry addressed the Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Colorado Thursday in Denver. He said the GOP was “in the wilderness” for a reason: in his opinion, for doubling the national debt. Penry, though, seemed in the wilderness on how exactly to court the Latino vote as a [...]

Recent data shows that Colorado and Wyoming saw a 7 percent increase in deportations of undocumented immigrants in 2007, but the information should come as no surprise because the federal government has been dramatically stepping up enforcement actions, including worksite raids and criminal prosecutions.

Latino votes could very well swing Colorado for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to a new report.

George W. Bush won the White House in 2004 with the help of large numbers of Latino voters. But his failure to push through comprehensive immigration reform and the “onslaught” against Latinos that gathered momentum on his watch leave some Latinos to conclude they are worse off than they were before.