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The Perils Of Being A Latino Republican: Rubio Can't Reject Latest GOP Anti-Latino Proposal

By Big Tent Democrat

Politico:

Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio on Thursday declined to take a firm stance on a newly proposed bill in the state that would require immigrants to carry identification or face a 20-day jail sentence. The bill was unveiled Wednesday by Bill McCollum, the state’s Republican attorney general and a gubernatorial candidate. [. . .] “Arizona is going to want this law,” McCollum said, according to the St. Petersburg Times. “We're better, we're stronger, we're tougher and we're fairer.”

After the Arizona bill passed, Rubio said he had “concerns” that the measure could “unreasonably single out people who are here legally.” But when asked by POLITICO about Rubio’s stance on Florida’s proposal, which is in the same vein as Arizona’s, spokesman Alex Burgos offered a softer stance on the new bill. “He believes the best approach is for the federal government to deal with border security and immigration, and he hopes state efforts like Arizona are a wake-up call for Congress to get its act together,” Burgos said of Rubio.

It's tough to be a Latino Republican - you can't endorse hating yourself, but you can't really reject it either.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).