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Why I Left the Republican Party to Start the Blue Dogs of the Democratic Party

 

PHOENIX (By Jon Garrido, The Jon Garrido News Network May 15, 2009 — For most of my adult life, I was a Republican. Coming back home to Superior, Arizona, from the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war, I wanted to begin voting and as I weighed if I would register as a Democrat or a Republican, I concluded I was a better fit with the Republicans.

As I looked at the Democrats I saw a party comprised of individuals that were staunch supporters of issues I could not support. As I read the Democratic platform, it was evident to me, I was not a good fit with the Democrats so I registered as a Republican.

 

I am Catholic and a 5th generation American Hispanic from Arizona. Not just Catholic in name but since the time I was a young altar boy at Saint Francis Catholic Church in Superior, Arizona, I wanted to become a priest. I did study to become a deacon some 15 years ago but I discovered the church had left me.

 

I have never supported abortion, gay marriage or gun control. I grew up in rural Arizona, where guns were as plentiful as bicycles. We started with BB guns but through the years, hunting for deer in the hills around Superior became a way of life.

 

I may have been the only Hispanic Republican in Superior, Arizona. Even then as today I am very independent. At the very least, I have always thought for myself and I have never followed the herd as most people did and still do.

I can remember numerous conversations with family members who could not accept me as a Republican. Yet on countless family debates, it was always amusing to me, they had the same values as I but I was constantly told Democrats were for the "people" and Republicans were for "business" and that was the extend of their argument.

 

It wasn't enough as soon as I began working at Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona, I joined the AFL-CIO as a underground copper miner. The Republican tag carried a stigma.

 

Moving from a small rural town to the "big" city of Tucson, I quickly discover I was not alone. Starting with my first professional job heading up economic development for the City of Tucson and then on to El Paso where I was the director of economic development, my sphere of professional acquaintances increased exponentially. I was invited to join an informal alliance of American Hispanic Republicans with membership across the United States. It appeared we were everywhere. When jobs opened up across the United States, the informal network sought out Hispanic candidates to fill those jobs.

 

The American Hispanic network grew with membership as Republicans.

 

This process opened up two job possibilities for me in Washington with the last job as a deputy assistant secretary at HUD which would have made me the FHA commissioner for the United States. I was invited to Washington to discuss the job but I turned down the job because I had just began ownership of a manufacturing plant called a Maquilidora in Mexico. It never-the-less was great for my ego to have been offered the job.

 

My Hispanic professional friends were Republicans with the only Democrats being family and community members in the small rural town of Superior, Arizona where my family roots began.

We all agreed if there were enough of us in the Republican tent, we could influence the Republican Party to be more inclusive.

But there is simply to much hate toward Hispanics so obviously we did not succeed. The 2000 presidential election was a turning point for me. I was asked by Massey Villarreal, the national chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, to head up the George Bush for President Campaign in Arizona. I still have the saved email.

 

My Bush involvement began with the father.

The Bush father, when he was vice president, invited me to a private breakfast at the Washington Press Club where he asked for my support. I accepted to support his candidacy to become President of the United States.

But when asked to support the son, I told all my Hispanic Republican friends at the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, I could not support George W. Bush.

I had carefully studied his speeches and told all I could not buy into his campaign. I remember many agreed with me but G.W. Bush was the Republican candidate. The party leaders had made a decision to make G.W. Bush their candidate. My Republican Hispanic friends owned to many "chits" to the Republican Party so G.W. Bush became their candidate — but
not mine.

In 2000, I endorsed Al Gore for president. I wrote an editorial endorsing Gore and published it one of my websites. It was a wise decision as it turned out. G.W. Bush will go down in history as the worst president of the United States and for Hispanics, the deplorable use by Bush to build countless ICE dentition centers to house 12 million undocumented in the Bush process of deportation revealed the "real" George Bush. Thank God, the Bush presidency is gone. He certainly was not a friend of the Hispanic community even though he knows 4 words in Spanish.

Since 2000, I floundered as a Republican and casual observer of Arizona and Washington politics. I had grown exhausted with the hope American Republican Hispanics could turn the Republican Party away from anti-Hispanic rhetoric.

It was the 2006 Hispanic marches that was a watershed year for me at Hispanic News. I became part of the undocumented movement for immigration reform. I created the Ax Kimberly Clark boycott targeting James Sensenbrenner. I then created the Ax AOL, Ax Lou Dobbs, and Ax CNN boycotts.

In addition, Hispanic News under my mandate served as an extensive information distribution nucleus coordinating disseminating march information across the United States using a Hispanic News website: No HR 4437.

Yet, I still was not a good fit with the liberal Democratic party.

 

The Blue Dogs of the Democratic Party

 

In 2006, I discovered the "Blue Dogs" caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives and as I looked at their positions on key issues, I concluded there were millions of Americans like me who could not support liberal democratic positions so I started the Blue Dogs of the Democratic Party as a conservative national organization of Democrats opposed to abortion, gay marriage and gun control.

Up went "The Blue Dogs of the Democratic Party" website and to this day, the website ranks number 2 at Yahoo of some 113 million websites. Blue Dogs did achieve rank 1 but now with no on going election campaigns, Blue Dogs has dropped to number 2.

 

The "Blue Dogs of the Democratic Party" is now growing across the United States as we gear up for the 2010 congressional elections.

 

In the 2008 election, I wrote the endorsement for Barack Obama publishing the endorsement at Blue Dogs and Hispanic News. I believe Blue Dogs of the Democratic Party and Hispanic News played significant roles in the 2008 election electing Barack Obama for president. The endorsements were significant but in addition, I published countless articles favoring Obama and attacking McCain at Hispanic News and Blue Dogs.

The "Blue Dogs" website brought countless emails to me supporting the need for a different Democratic Party.

Two years ago I moved from Scottsdale to Phoenix to begin preparing a plan to become involved in Phoenix politics. As soon as I located to Phoenix, I changed parties. I became a registered Democrat.

But I am not a liberal Democrat supporting abortions, gay marriage and gun control but a conservative Democrat determined to be an advocate for all Hispanics but with priority in advocacy for the undocumented.

Now that I am aligned as a Democrat with the party of the "people," because of my economic development and business background, I remain strongly pro-business and see jobs and business ownership as key for Hispanics to become Americans.

 

Recently, I have been approached to return to the Republican Party and assured the anti-Hispanic rhetoric will come to an end — but I do not believe it for a second.

 

Yet, I deplore the Democratic party promoting gay marriage across the United States especially in unlikely places such as Iowa.

 

A third national party of Hispanic Americans

 

I have given considerable thought to starting a third national party of Hispanic Americans opposing abortions, gay marriage and gun control but the probable success of this reminds me of Ross Perot's effort to start a 3rd party. With all his resources, he did not succeed in establishing a 3rd party.

 

Yet, we have something Perot did not have ― 46 million Hispanics and counting. With more than 46 million people, Nuevo Hispania is the 27th-largest nation on Earth and the fourth largest in the Western Hemisphere. Its residents wield $1 trillion of buying power in the marketplace. Even as the rest of the economy contracts in the global recession, Nuevo Hispania remains a thriving, even booming, market that’s expected to grow by 48 percent in the next four years.

And it’s not even a real country.

The imaginary “Nuevo Hispania” is actually a substantial segment of the U.S. population. Hispanics now account for more than 17 percent of the U.S. populace as the nation’s largest minority group. And while other demographic sectors are growing only incrementally, the Hispanic population is exploding: The Census Bureau projects 30 percent of Americans will be Hispanic by 2050 and by 2097, 50% of all Americans will be Hispanic. Other minorities will account for 46% leaving 4% of the U.S. population as "white."

 

Certainly not all Hispanics are conservative as I; never-the-less, a national Hispanic Party would explode with membership because having the same roots, all Hispanics deeply resent the anti-Hispanic rhetoric used against us. If you are not a believer, look at the 67% of the Hispanic vote for Obama to McCain's 31%. Republican nominee John McCain did not even come close to the 44% Bush received in 2004.

 

There are more issues that unite Hispanics than issues that separate us. In reality, it comes down to marketing. How we market the good of Hispanics at the expense of the other parties will determine if we remain Democrats or go off and start our own party.

 

One thing I do know, the Republicans can debate rebuilding their party by embracing its conservative roots or broaden its appeal to an inclusive tent until the cows come home, but the debate is futile.

 

Without Hispanics, the Republican Party will come to an end and nothing the Republican Party does will bring back Hispanics.

 

In 2010 and 2012, Hispanic News will lead the herd to remind all Hispanics of the hate rhetoric used against Hispanics in the 2007 immigration reform debate.

 

It all comes down to marketing and now with You Tube, Facebook and so forth, all of the past anti-Hispanic rhetoric used by Tom Tancredo, Lou Dobbs, John Cornyn, Jeff Sessions, John McCain, Jon Kyl, and countess others will be re-broadcast across the United States to remind Hispanics about the anti-Hispanic venom that will drive the last nails in the coffin ending the Republican Party.

 

Along with this, the conservative Republican talk radio broadcasts will continue spitting venom because they are too dumb to accept their anti-Hispanic broadcasts were instrumental in turning out the 2008 vote for Obama.

 

This also can be seen with the success of the 2006 marches that were a result of James Sensenbrenner moving the U.S. House of Representatives to declare felons of all that helped Hispanics.

 

I for one hope the Republicans use the same anti-Hispanic rhetoric in 2010 and 2012 to accelerate the death of the Republican Party.

 

John McCain and Jon Kyl speak out of both sides of their mouths

 

When John McCain decided to run for president, McCain passed sponsorship of immigration reform to Jon Kyl and Kyl became co-sponsor along with Senator Kennedy.

 

There was always a hidden agenda for McCain and Kyl. Being designated "sponsor" implies one who supports a legislative bill but Jon Kyl changed the definition of sponsor to author the legislation to accomplish Kyl's legislative intent which was to write a punitive bill that would be the vehicle for deporting 12 million undocumented Hispanics back to Mexico.

 

Kyl was able to change the intent of what Senator Kennedy was trying to accomplish to provide changes to immigration to provide a pathway to reasonable requirements providing an opportunity for undocumented Hispanics to live and work in the United States without fear of reprisals and protected by the U.S. Constitution.

 

Kyl on the other hand wanted to deport all undocumented Hispanics for spitting on the sidewalk or jaywalking.

On June 5, 2007, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said, "This is one of the most contentious, complex, emotional issues of our time and no one is going to get 100% of what they want." Kyl spoke about Arizona Republican constituents who told him they trust him but don't like his bill. "The situation in the United States, and particularly in my state, is getting worse every day. You simply cannot afford to ignore the problem. You realize you're going to have to get in there, fight like heck to get the situation resolved."

Another euphuism for deport the undocumented. In Kyl's 2006 Arizona re-election campaign, Kyl is surrounded by Arizona's sheriffs  stating, "Arizona sheriffs oppose amnesty." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHKo-16-fKI

As for John McCain, on the floor of the U.S. Senate after voting for ratification of a judicial appointment, McCain sneaked out a side door of the senate chambers to avoid voting on the next item on the Senate agenda which was the vote on the Dream Act.

 

McCain did not support the Dream Act for fear of alienating Republican voters. Sneaking out the side door is characteristic of McCain for McCain only thinks about McCain and for this reason and countless other reasons for not representing the electorate of Arizona especially Arizona Hispanics, McCain is not worthy of re-election in 2010 and Kyl is not worthy of re-election in 2012.

 

Material from the LA Times, NY Times, AP, Business Week and Hispanic News 2007 archive was used in this report.

 

 

 

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