While Dave Schultheis never misses an opportunity to stick it to Hispanics, be they illegal immigrants or descended from families who lived in Colorado before the United States became a nation, Mitch McConnell had this to say
As Republican insiders gathered to pick a chairman, the Kentucky senator cautioned that the party would cease to be competitive outside its Southern stronghold unless it reached out to black and Hispanic voters and other groups that have increasingly voted Democratic in recent years.
"Unless we do something to adapt, our status as a minority party may become too pronounced for an easy recovery," McConnell told members of the Republican National Committee.
"Every so often, there comes a time when a political party has to re-examine itself. For Republicans, now is such a time," McConnell said.
Meanwhile, Dave Schultheis made the news again, this time in an unfavorable write up in the Pueblo Chieftain:
His real agenda is evident in his comments. "All these ads are going to do is provide one more assimilation off-ramp for new arrivals," Schultheis said. "Bilingualism in our buckle-up ads - just like bilingualism in our schools - will only encourage the further Balkanization of our culture, reduce the pressure on new immigrants to learn English and make it harder in the long run for immigrants to become Americans.”
I’ve got news for the good senator. There already is plenty of pressure on all Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens, not just new immigrants, to learn English. For several generations, Hispanics have recognized that speaking English - especially without an accent - is one sure way to get ahead in this country. In some extreme cases, speaking Spanish was forbidden in some Hispanic households, including the one in which I was raised.
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