That's right, there is a new party in town called the Tequila Party and both sides of the political fence should start taking notice because now the potentially largest minority voting block, the Hispanics, has come together to see that their interests in jobs, immigration and education do not go unnoticed by Republicans and Democrats in office.
...The newly formed grass-roots group sprouted from a growing frustration among Hispanic voters that neither party is doing much to help the nation's immigrant population and that the tea parties have turned the tide against them.
Rather than swear allegiance to one party or the other, Tequila Party members said they plan to form a Hispanic voting bloc so strong that they can no longer be ignored.
"We're not telling anybody how to vote. We don't care, because we do bad anyway at the polls. Right now, we need to get over that hurdle," said DeeDee Garcia Blase, the group's founder and president......."Democrats take the Latino community for granted, and Republicans tend to assume that Latinos don't vote or that they always vote Democrat," Quasius said. "We think both parties' perceptions of Latinos need to be fairly shaken up."...
You can read more about this online at Roll Call
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