It is encouraging to see the mayors of several of the large
st cities in this country cooperating with a project to try to get the potential Latino voter bloc to actually show up at the polls on Election Day and cast ballots.
Univision Communications (which in Chicago has WGBO-TV, Ch. 66 as their affiliate) announced Tuesday it is organizing its “Ya es Hora (It’s Time) ad campaign, with help from the chief executives of Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco.
It is a noble effort, but there’s a question I have to ask – “Where’s Mayor Daley?”
Officials said they picked the mayors of cities with significant Hispanic populations. Certainly, Chicago qualifies on that count.
We are the city where roughly one of every six residents is specifically of Mexican ethnic background. More than one-quarter of the city’s people are Latino, and the growth in that sector is strong enough that by 2020, Chicago is expected to be a city of roughly one-third Latino, one-third black and one-third white backgrounds.
So what’s the story, Richard M.? Did you get overlooked, or did you blow off an invitation to participate in this project. I hope it’s not the latter, because the Latino voter bloc is a growing one. You probably are “Mayor for Life” – unless you start disrespecting the Hispanic population.
It would be sad if your days in politics came to an end because you couldn’t fully appreciate the changes in demographics of your home city.
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st cities in this country cooperating with a project to try to get the potential Latino voter bloc to actually show up at the polls on Election Day and cast ballots.Univision Communications (which in Chicago has WGBO-TV, Ch. 66 as their affiliate) announced Tuesday it is organizing its “Ya es Hora (It’s Time) ad campaign, with help from the chief executives of Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco.
It is a noble effort, but there’s a question I have to ask – “Where’s Mayor Daley?”
Officials said they picked the mayors of cities with significant Hispanic populations. Certainly, Chicago qualifies on that count.
We are the city where roughly one of every six residents is specifically of Mexican ethnic background. More than one-quarter of the city’s people are Latino, and the growth in that sector is strong enough that by 2020, Chicago is expected to be a city of roughly one-third Latino, one-third black and one-third white backgrounds.
So what’s the story, Richard M.? Did you get overlooked, or did you blow off an invitation to participate in this project. I hope it’s not the latter, because the Latino voter bloc is a growing one. You probably are “Mayor for Life” – unless you start disrespecting the Hispanic population.
It would be sad if your days in politics came to an end because you couldn’t fully appreciate the changes in demographics of your home city.
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