California Latino Voters Say Fiorina ‘No Es Mi Amiga’
By Mike Hall at AFL-CIO Now Blog
Carly Fiorina, California Republican U.S. Senate candidate, shares a wide range of skewed views straight out of the Sarah Palin manifesto. But there is one key Palinesque policy she embraces that she’d just a soon the state’s Latino voters didn’t dwell on.
Fiorina, who casts herself as friend of Latinos, is a strong and strident supporter of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law that civil rights groups denounce as discriminatory and an open to door to racial profiling. As a U.S. senator, Fiorina very well could back a national anti-immigrant law patterned after Arizona’s.
Today the California Labor Federation, Brave New Films and SEIU California unveiled a new bilingual video, “Carly No Es Mi Amiga” (Carly is Not My Friend) that exposes her anti-immigrant agenda and close ties to Palin’s radical and inflammatory immigration rhetoric. Says Art Pulaski, California Labor Federation executive secretary-treasurer:
She’s pushing more of the same failed policies that destroyed our economy and forced millions of Latinos and other workers into the unemployment line. The last thing California Latinos need is Carly’s anti-immigrant, job-slashing agenda.
Brave New Films also will launch an integrated “Carly No Es Mi Amiga” online campaign which will include Facebook ads for California voters and the Latino community. It’s part of a full “Real Carly” campaign. Click here.
There are more reasons why Fiorina is no friend to Latino voters–read them here in the latest post from Rebecca Greenberg at the California Labor Federation’s blog, Labor’s Edge.
Roundup & Recap
Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films is calling on Gen. Stanley McChrystal to resign and the producer-activist has launched a petition drive, saying that his comments reported in Rolling Stone have “undermined the Office of the President of the United States.”
General McChrystal is Summoned to Washington
It’s now Tuesday, so the weirdness that was Monday has passed. Or so we thought!
I awoke this morning to the same headlines as everyone else: The Runaway General. That’s the name of the incredible new piece in Rolling Stone with the subtitle, “Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.” Yikes!
So, obviously, no shortage of things to talk about today!
We’ll begin the show with Christina Bellantoni, senior reporter for Talking Points Memo, who’s written at least four stories about that story today.
And we’ll wrap things up with an in-depth look at McChrystal– going back to his plan for covering up the real cause of Pat Tillman’s death, the leaking of his plan during last year’s policy review, and more – with Derrick Crowe of Brave New Films and Rethink Afghanistan. Brave New Films has launched a petition on facebook calling on McChrystal to resign. Sign on and pass it along!
The people at BP must be thanking God for Stanley McChrystal today. But while we’re preoccupied with insubordination, the oil keeps spewing from the ocean floor into the Gulf of Mexico. I came across an interesting piece today on BuzzFlash, written by Nikolas Kozloff (author of No Rain in the Amazon: How South America’s Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet) entitled “BP Oil Catastrophe Unleashes a Hidden Toxic Killer of Life and Climate: Methane.” He’ll also join in for a quick explanation of this “800 pound gorilla” in the gulf.