Latino Politics in Nevada

Via racewire.org: Ruben Kihuen, the son of Mexican immigrants, is up for re-election in Nevada’s state assembly. The Dem has represented the 11th District since 2006, when he ran his first campaign a year after becoming a citizen. Kihuen made news most recently though because he endorsed and canvassed aggressively for Hillary Clinton, though the local Latino-heavy Culinary Union supported Obama. Clinton won the Nevada primary, but how Kihuen will deal with the difference in opinion between himself and his constituency is something to keep an eye on, says Bill Fulkerson of Plan Nevada, a nonprofit alliance of over 24 groups that works for progressive social change in Nevada.

Ruben Kihuen’s website: http://www.rubenforassembly.com/

Top 20 contributing ZIP codes in the Southland

The top 20 counties in Southern California that donated to candidate’s in the 2008 Presidential Election are:

1. 90210 Beverly Hills
2. 90049 Los Angeles
3. 90272 Pacific Palisades
4. 92660 Newport Beach
5. 90067 Los Angeles
6. 90024 Los Angeles
7. 90212 Beverly Hills
8. 90025 Los Angeles
9. 90402 Santa Monica
10. 90069 West Hollywood
11. 90077 Los Angeles
12. 91436 Encino
13. 902651 Laguna Beach
14. 90046 Los Angeles
15. 90266 Manhattan Beach
16. 90064 Los Angeles
17. 90265 Malibu
18. 90071 Los Angeles
19. 91011 La Canada Flintridge
20. 901302 Calabasas

 

North Carolina Raise Up

As the now infamous and nearly forgotten Petey Pablo once rapped, “North Carolina” raise up. NC, the site of a deteriorating tobacco and cotton industry and home of $20,000 3-bedroom homes spoke at the polls. Senator Obama took the primary, a clear win and distinctive challenge to Clinton’s once high powered and financially strong campaign. 

As Clinton campaigned through the state in rural cities and townships like Kinston, she was often photographed in a crowd of white residents. However, to the best of my knowledge NC is below the mason-dixon line and filled with a cross-section of Blacks, Whites, and emerging Latino community. Nevertheless, lets let Washington chose who they want to be supported by. And today North Carolina chose who they want to be represented by-change. 

The Never-ending Democratic Primary

The Wright Response

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose fiery sermons as Democrat Barack Obama’s former pastor set off a political firestorm last month, spoke publicly for the first time today. In the months prior, Rev. Wright has been heavily criticized by mainstream media and the ‘American’ public for being ‘un-American’ and somewhat discriminatory. Rev. Wright is a pastor in a Black Church, a church that continues to be the epicenter of black political thought from the post-reconstruction era to the present. The Black Church caters specifically to Black Americans, preaching religious views intertwined with the reality of the Black experience within this country.

Rev. Wright has simply been doing his job as a community leader, dispeller of truthful history, and a religious liaison to hundreds of church goers. Despite excelling at his position, Rev. Wright has been lambasted during the 2008 election mayhem for comments about the Iraq War, the current administration, and more. In his defense, Rev. Wright has stated that he feels ”crucified” by the media and that attacks on him are really slams on the black church.

“It is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright, it is an attack on the black church,” he said at a National Press Club appearance. “Maybe now we can begin to take steps to move the black religious tradition from the state of invisible to the state of invaluable.”

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