Bush Courts Key Hispanic Vote on Puerto Rico, Houston Stops

Jeb Bush at the Universidad Metropolitana in San Juan, P.R., where he spoke about economic opportunity on Tuesday.Credit Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo for The New York Times

Bush Courts Key Hispanic Vote on Puerto Rico, Houston Stops

Tuesday, 28 Apr 2015 12:41 PM

By Melissa Clyne

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/jeb-bush-hispanics-voters-puerto-rico/2015/04/28/id/641235/

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a presumed GOP candidate for the presidency in 2016, will be courting Hispanics — a key voting bloc — this week during trips to Puerto Rico and Texas, NBC News reports.

Tuesday’s jaunt to the island of Puerto Rico includes an event at the Universidad Metropolitana de Cupey, a town hall with the Republican Party of Puerto Rico and a fundraiser at the home of Zoraida Fonalledas, the national committeewoman for the Puerto Rico Republican Party. She is married to one of Puerto Rico’s wealthiest businessmen, according to the network.

Bush's outreach to tiny Puerto Rico may have more far-reaching implications for his presumed candidacy, specifically in his home state and its famous I-4 corridor in Central Florida, which has long been known as a swing area for voters.

"The Puerto Rican vote in Central Florida, I would argue, is the decisive vote in Florida," Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the conservative American Principles Project's Latino Partnership, told NBC.

"There are 900,000 Puerto Ricans concentrated in Central Florida. They are deciding elections. Obama won it by 1 point. Over 80 percent voted with Obama," he said.

"Republicans need to penetrate there. Polling shows they are independent voters."

After Puerto Rico, Bush heads to Houston, where he is the keynote speaker at the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, an event with an expected attendance of some 1,000 Hispanic evangelicals, a figure which includes delegates from South America, Central America and Spain.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is also scheduled to speak at the conference, whose theme is "From Survive to Thrive," according to The Christian Post.

The Sunshine State's former two-term governor fared well with Hispanic voters in both of his elections. He speaks fluent Spanish and has been married for more than 30 years to his Mexican-born wife, Columba.

A Republican pollster working for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign told the National Journal last month that in order to capture the White House, the GOP candidate must get about 30 percent of the nonwhite vote, and more than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote.

Puerto Rico

Carlos A. Romero Barcelo was the Puerto Rico governor, the San Juan (PR) mayor, and the president for the National League of Cities.

Note: Lumina Foundation for Education was a funder for the National League of Cities, the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.  

Frederic V. Malek is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), the founder & board member for the American Action Network (think tank), and a member of the Alfalfa Club.

Hispanic Leadership Network (think tank) in an offshoot of the American Action Network (think tank).

Jeb Bush is an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network (think tank), a member of the Alfalfa Club, and was Florida state government governor & commerce secretary.

Florida state government is the government for the State of Florida.

Glenda E. Hood was the president for the State of Florida, the Orlando (FL) mayor, the president of National League of Cities, and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and a Florida steering committee member for the 2008 Mitt Romney presidential campaign.

Mitt Romney was the candidate for the 2008 Mitt Romney presidential campaign, and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Anthony A. Williams is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, the president for the National League of Cities, the Washington (DC) mayor, and is a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank).

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a member of the Iraq Study Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Sandra Day O'Connor was a member of the Iraq Study Group, and is the president of the Alfalfa Club.

Jeb Bush is a member of the Alfalfa Club, and an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network (think tank).

Lee H. Hamilton was a co-chair for the Iraq Study Group, is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

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Kenneth Canterbury is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and the president for the Fraternal Order of Police.

Martin O'Malley was a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Baltimore (MD) mayor, and is the Maryland state government governor.

Clark Kent Ervin was a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and is a commissioner for the Commission on Wartime Contracting.

Charles Tiefer is a commissioner for a Commission on Wartime Contracting, and a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law.