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
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Tuesday, 28 Apr 2015 12:41 PM
By Melissa Clyne
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.
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."
"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.
Valerie Jarrett Praises Baltimore Citizens, For Cleaning
Up (Past Research on the Homeland Security Advisory Council)
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
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.
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