For Immediate Release (español)
Marshall, MN – National pro-immigration reform group Cafe Con Leche Republicans today reacted to Eva Longoria’s apology over her recent retweet of a tweet stating women and minorities who vote for Romney are “stupid.”
Bob Quasius, of Cafe Con Leche Republicans, said “Eva has apologized publicly for retweeting a remark that many conservative women and minorities found offensive. We accept her sincere apology, and appreciate Eva’s immigration reform activism and years of charitable efforts, such as producing the documentary film Harvest (La Cosecha), which exposes child farm worker abuses, her foundation supporting Latina entrepreneurs, Eva’s Heroes, Padres Contra Cancer, etc.
Eva reached out and offered us an olive branch, expressing interest in working together on issues affecting Latinos. Although we don’t agree with Eva’s choice of candidate for president, with immigration reform we find common ground. Our current immigration system has been broken for many years, hurting our economy, and ripping apart thousands of families every month.
At the moment, most immigration reform activists are wearing their ‘partisan hats’ and very busy with election campaigns. However, in just two weeks elections will be over and immigration reform activists will need to prepare for immigration reform in 2013 with a new Congress and perhaps a new president as well.
Partisanship has been a major stumbling block to immigration reform in recent years, and we are encouraged by Eva’s outreach. Supporters of immigration reform of all ideological stripes need to work together and build a coalition, and we welcome Eva’s willingness to work with Republicans.
We know of other Republican organizations who also are very interested in making immigration reform a reality in 2013, and we hope the next Congress will place more emphasis on bipartisanship in immigration reform and many other issues.”
We have criticized others including Eva Longoria at times, sometimes severely.
We also praise others, for example Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, for their good deeds, and to be quite honest, we’d much rather be in a position of praising someone than criticizing.
This is the first time that someone we criticized has reached out to us. We believe in giving credit where credit is due.
Great job, Bob – in reconciling the differences that you and the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space had with Eva!!!!
I even see, Bob, that you and I are also able to have a wonderful interaction within this Blog Space.
As I indicated to a friend of mine recently, although you and I, Bob disagree on a number of issues, you, Bob, have a GREAT SENSE of Fairness that I greatly admire.
You run a great and interesting Blog Space, Bob. THANKS for all of your work!!!!!
You’re welcome Robert. Once elections are behind us, let’s hope we see bipartisan ship return to Washington. The last four years have been hyper-partisan and as a result numerous problems aren’t getting solved.
I agree with you, Bob – bipartisan would be nice to see after the election. However, I fear that that won’t be the case though.
It depends. IMHO Romney will be more bipartisan, and he proved he could do it as Gov. of MA, which has a large Democrat majority in the legislature. Obama has never shown we can get everything done. He had a strong majority the first two years including a cloture proof majority in the Senate for part of that time, and still struggled to get things done. After nearly four years we still don’t even have a budget. IMHO he has a serious problem working across the aisle, and that’s a serious leadership failure.
It looks like, Bob, that you are making a number of assumptions.
My comment, on the other hand, had no assumptions associated with the comment.