More fallout from secret Romney tape: Moveon.org ad blasts GOP candidate for Hispanic wannabe remarks
by Dara Kam | September 19th, 2012Moveon.org is releasing a Spanish-language television ad in key swing states Florida, Colorado and Nevada, blasting GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney for remarks he made this spring at a secretly-recorded Boca Raton fundraiser.
Romney, appearing at a Univision forum tonight, told supporters in May that he’d “have a better shot at winning” the election if his parents had been Mexican. Romney’s father was born in Mexico but was a U.S. citizen.
“I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino,” Romney said.
Speaking to the camera but addressing Romney in ad, a Hispanic woman lists issues that Romney’s been on the wrong side of for many Latino voters.
“You’ve pledged to kill the Dream Act, you’d enable the police harassment of Latinos in Arizona, and your party is trying to suppress Latino votes. But you joke that you wanna be one so you can win?” she says. “We’re not laughing, Gov. Romney. Because regardless of race a Presidential candidate who has such contempt for Latinos would never deserve our support.”
The ad, sponsored by the left-leaning Moveon.org PAC and PresentePAC+, will begin airing Thursday on Spanish television stations in Orlando, Tampa and Miami along with Las Vegas and Denver.
Tags: 2012 campaigns, 2012 presidential campaigns, 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney, Moveon.org, presrace
September 19th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Yo Mitt, te chupa huevo pal
September 19th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
what a shock that move on is mad at the gop …and huffington is publishing this garbage……….lol……….your both a joke
September 19th, 2012 at 5:32 pm
@ Ed Tozer
…and “you’re” semi-literate.
What are you?…. twelve?
September 20th, 2012 at 10:24 am
“REDISTRIBUTION” = Obama!
What your’s is mine!
You worked for it, but others will share in what you’ve received.
“YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!”= Obama
What incentive is there to work, to do more? when Obama seeks to REDISTRIBUTE what you have worked for?
Pass on the results of your hard labor to your relatives….NO WAY, it goes to others.
Obama=Collective=the Kibbutz
You have no independence, it’s the group who will decide your cut.
September 20th, 2012 at 11:58 am
The only Latino that will be voting for Romney is Marco Rubio, but only because he’s been told to by his corporate owners.
September 20th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
http://panamaed.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/2009-case-5-children-brutally-raped/
September 22nd, 2012 at 2:57 pm
No surprise here—Mittens has a great disdain for Latinos, Blacks, Jews, Gays, and the 47% he doesn’t really give a damn about. And if the 53% of the remaining people thinks he really cares about them—I have some lovely swamp land in the everglades that will make a great resort!!
October 9th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Interesting observation on how ad blasts can shape ones perspective. This article was well written and easy to follow. Very valuable information Dara.