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		<title>Jill Bader as Communications Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The age of modernity has changed the face of political discourse.  There has never been a time in the world of politics where information was so accessible.  A simple tweet from a candidate or conversations secretly recorded by an Iphone can wreak havoc on a political campaign.

Campaigns have always utilized smart messaging to gain popular support.  Back in the 1860s, President Lincoln believed the Civil War took a toll on the American people making his reelection chances problematic.  Making his weakness into a strength, his campaign slogan became, "Don't change horses in the middle of a stream".  It worked and Lincoln was reelected with 55% of the vote.

We've come along way since the 1800s.  The Internet began reshaping the political terrain, making effective communication strategies of one election not so effective in the next. The communications director must accurately gauge the electoral market and make a message determination in advance.  To put it one way, if campaign experts believe that communications is the heart of a political campaign, then the communications director must be the coronary arteries.   
Jill Bader Becomes Communications Director for the Walker Campaign

In August of 2009, Scott Walker's campaign manager Keith Gilkes began calling around for a communications director.  The Governor's Association suggested Jill Bader, a young press secretary of the Senate Republican Conference and Aid to Senator Lamar Alexander.  Given her campaign experience with Bob Corker and serving as a spokeswoman for Lamar Alexander's reelect, offering Bader the job was simply a wise choice.

Walker's election success was predicated upon the campaign's ability to stay on message.  Across the country, the GOP used a cookie-cutter theme of fiscal responsibility at a time of economic drought and increased government spending.  What separated Scott Walker from the pack, beside his uncanny ability to do what he says, was his executive record of real budgetary shrewdness.  Fiscal responsibility, captured by the Walker's brown bag theme, connected him with Wisconsin voters - a message executed skillfully by Jill Bader.

Jill Bader was in charge of the general messaging for Scott Walker's campaign.  Her job, a critical one, was to interface Walker with the public.  She did this through speech writing, press releases, website content and campaign advertisements.  But she was more than just a media handler, Bader was a go-to person in the strategy room.  She staffed the campaign, executed the famous "Brown Bag" theme and briefed Walker on developing news.  In retrospect, it's an impressive story for a 27 year old.
Some Background on Jill Bader]]></description>
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		<title>Tisk the Season of Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Race-Baiting is not Solely a Liberal Phenomenon

Illegal Aliens

Sharon Angle, a Tea Party candidate from Nevada, released a television ad criticizing Senator Harry Reid's vote to give "special tax breaks" and "preferred tuition rates" to undocumented immigrants.  And although a tough stance against illegal immigration is no surprise for the GOP, Angle's most recent ad has some serious racial overtones.

Anyone who knows me personally, knows I rarely throw around the term "racist."  In fact, I'm proud of the fact that I rarely apply the term to anyone unless there is good evidence.

However, the commercial that Sharon Angle ran in Nevada is, quite frankly, racist.  The ad begins by saying Harry Reid voted for to give special tax breaks to undocumented immigrants.  The picture they showed of "illegal aliens" showed Hispanic men wearing wife-beaters, backward baseball hats, and skullcaps.  They were creeping along the border fence in the dead of night looking like burglars with their flashlights and black outfits.

A reasonable question is why Angle didn't show a more realistic picture of immigrants crossing the border, a picture of say, desperate mothers carrying their young children.  Or would this not convey the same hoodlum-like effect that Angle was trying to achieve?

The ad gets worse.]]></description>
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		<title>Being Pro Life is not Extreme</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion advocate criticizes Patrick McIlheran

Life in the wombLisa Subeck is the Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin.  Earlier this week, she criticized columnist Patrick McIlheran for calling 87 year old Anne Gaylor, who funded and coordinated nearly 19,000 abortions, a "sweet little old granny blood money".  Subeck called McIlheran's article an example of "extreme rhetoric" that gives license to the "extreme and violent" element of the anti-choice movement.

In other words, Subeck's point is if you refer to abortion as murder, the blood is on your hands when violence occurs.  Thus, in the interest of public safety, mainstream news outlets have an obligation not to publish McIlheran's "anti-choice" rhetoric.

Subeck says she respects the right for pro-life advocates to express their views, but places arbitrary restraints on what they can and cannot say.  If pro-life advocates listen to Subeck and don't use terms like "murder" when discussing the extermination of human life, then doesn't it, in an way, legitimize her cause?  After all, if abortion is not murder, then what part makes it morally wrong?  As an aside, I've  always found it fascinating that Democrats talk about reducing the frequency of abortions while never explaining why they think its so important.
The Real Debate

The real debate is not about rare instances of violence that is or is not incited by rhetoric, but why Anne Gaylor aided in 19,000 abortions when there is a myriad of childless couples desperately waiting to adopt babies.  Hell, there are even some couples willing to adopt disabled babies.]]></description>
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		<title>The Dream that Stalled</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While immigration stayed at the forefront of national news, Democrat Harry Reid was busy at work attaching a measure known as the DREAM Act to the Defense Appropriations Bill.  Unfortunately, the bill stalled in the Senate as Democrats fell four votes shy of the 60 they needed.

Part of the reason it failed, presumably, is that Reid had also partnered it with a repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" military policy.  This addition would almost certainly guarantee that no GOP would support for the bill, which might have been intentional.  Consequentially, several key Congressional Republicans criticized Reid for playing election politics saying he only introduced the measure to drum up Hispanic support for his reelection campaign in Nevada.  Mind you, Hispanics make up 25% of the total population in Nevada, and Reid is in a fight for his political life with tea party favorite Sharon Angle.   With just 6 weeks left before the November election,Reid's timing looks quite opportunistic.]]></description>
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		<title>Latinos Love Tacos, Apparently</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Democrat Governors Association made this statement about Meg Whitman, a gubernatorial candidate in California: "Are you Latino?  Meg Whitman wants to eat tacos with you! Or deport you.  She can't seem to decide."

The point the DGA was trying to make, I think, is that Whitman's view on illegal immigration is inconsistent with courting the Latino vote.  The subtext, however, is something entirely different.
In Wisconsin

Last week, The Democrat Party of Wisconsin, the Democrat Black Caucus, and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett all attacked Walker's campaign for a tweet that linked Obama's recent visit to a soul train video.  It was considered racially insensitive by some and blatantly racist by others.

Democrats cut the staffer no slack whatsoever and wanted her head on a silver platter.  And a reporter for the state's largest newspaper put it this way,

    "Let's face it: When the first black president is in town and campaign staffers for the leading Republican candidate for governor start making references to 'Soul Train,' that doesn't seem like a coincidence."

Back to California

In California, the Democrat Governor's Association did something far worse than link to a "Soul Train video.  Not only did the DGA imply that all Latinos like tacos, but they implied that if you're a Latino, then you are likely undocumented as well.  Why else would Democrats state that if you're Latino, Whitman wants to deport you.

There is an underlined problem in politics known as hypocrisy.  If tweets are racist, then they are racist regardless of party membership.  The Wisconsin Democrat Black Caucus flexed their muscles over an exaggerated issue involving a tweet to a black video.  In California, apparently, the first thing people think of when the see Latinos are tacos and deportation.  Lovely.

Where is all the outrage?]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Signs Border Security Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama takes a step in the right direction  in addressing border security.  Without securing the border, any sort of immigration bill devised by Congress cannot be comprehensive.]]></description>
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		<title>Open-Borders Group Protests Arizona Baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesting Arizona Baseball

Earlier this week, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Voces de la Frontera, an advocacy organization, planned to protest the Brewers' game with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday night.

The purpose of the protest is to pressure Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to move the All-Star game from Phoenix, Arizona to somewhere out of the state.  According to their website, moving the game would make a powerful statement against extremism and discrimination.  If Voces is successful and the All-Star game is moved, it will cost a battered Arizona economy $60 to $120 million in revenue.

Brewers' Vice President of Communications told El Conquistador that the protest staged by Voces Monday night stayed within the designated area and was conducted peacefully.
The Consequences of Moving the Game

 

In Voces' press release, they stated that "boycotting Arizona's SB1070 is one of the major civil rights struggles of our generation."

But they aren't really boycotting an inanimate law named SB1070.  Voces de la Frontera is boycotting the people of Arizona, 33% of which are Latino.  Moving the All-Star game from Arizona to another state will disrupt an already vulnerable economy.  And the businesses most at risk are resorts, hotels, restaurants, and traveling services, all of which are saturated with Hispanic workers.  Essentially, Voces de la Frontera would harm the very community they are professing to help.]]></description>
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		<title>Voting: the right to be heard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Free Society is a Voting Society

 

Last week, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen launched a task force to battle against voter fraud.  But talk of task forces has resurrected a partisan dispute between liberals and conservatives.

It was Dwight Eisenhower that said "The future of the republic is in the hands of the American voter."  The notion is that our republic, a system of sending representatives in our likeness to do our bidding, is built almost entirely upon what happens at the ballot box.  If true, it follows that voting should be protected carefully. But protecting our right encompasses more than voting freely, but voting legally.  

 

 

Would Voter ID Place Burdens on the Poor?

One source cited that nearly 6% of people in the U.S. have no form of photo ID, most of them being poor.  Would this cause a problem for poor folks? Not if they take voting as seriously as buying a case of beer.

I've been in a lot of poverty-stricken homes, and I have yet to find someone so poor that they couldn't get their hands on a case of beer.  If you can buy a case of beer, then you can afford a photo ID. More to the point, the Indiana Supreme Court stated that their voter ID law didn't impose any substantive obstacles for the poor.  In fact, in the five years since the law had passed, not a single person, poor or otherwise, had come forth claiming to be disenfranchised.]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to Repeal the 14th Amendment?  What is the GOP Thinking?</title>
		<link>http://www.hispaniccitizen.com/394.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, some GOP senators are considering the repeal of the 14th amendment (or parts of it) as a way of stemming illegal immigration.  Section 1 of the 14th amendment reads, 

"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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

This is a problem for the GOP if they let it get out of hand.  First problem is that it involves children, infants to be more precise.  Regardless of parental intent, the GOP will lose the PR battle as it could easily be characterized as a repeal of babies.  

Second, any time Congress wishes to change the U.S. Constitution, it requires a constitutional amendment of 2/3 vote.  Republicans don't have a simple majority let alone enough votes to pass a constitutional amendment.  If they try to repeal the 14th amendment, it will be seen as a political ploy to rile up the conservative base.  And for what?  How conservative is it to change the Constitution when there are other effective options to stifle illegal immigration.  How about focusing on the border rather than changing the currently unchangeable.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Support from Hispanics Slipping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's once solid support among Hispanics is showing a few cracks, a troubling sign for Democrats desperate to get this critical constituency excited about helping the party hold onto Congress this fall.

Hispanics still overwhelmingly favor the Democratic Party over the GOP, and a majority still think Obama is doing a good job, according to an Associated Press-Univision poll of more than 1,500 Hispanics.

But the survey, also sponsored by The Nielsen Company and Stanford University, shows Obama gets only lukewarm ratings on issues important to Hispanics — and that could bode poorly for the president and his party.

For a group that supported Obama so heavily in 2008 and in his first year in office, only 43 percent of Hispanics surveyed said Obama is adequately addressing their needs, with the economy a major concern. Another 32 percent were uncertain, while 21 percent said he'd done a poor job.]]></description>
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