Univision Pulls New Ad Telling Hispanics ‘Don’t Vote’

by Jon Bershad | 5:17 pm, October 19th, 2010

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A controversial new ad from the conservative group Latinos for Reform has been pulled by Univision shortly after it debuted in Nevada area markets. It’s been removed from Univision’s Spanish-speaking radio stations and will never air as planned on the company’s television channel. The ad argues that Democrats failed in their promises to introduce immigration reform and then gives viewers a simple instruction on how to “punish” them: Don’t vote.

Latinos for Reform is a group founded by Robert de Posada. Talking Points Memo has information on his background:

“In 1994, according to de Posada, he helped create the Hispanic Business Roundtable, which later became the Latino Coalition, where he was president until 2007. He served as co-director with Dick Armey on Americans for Border and Economic Security, on George W. Bush’s Social Security Commission, and as director of Hispanic affairs at the Republican National Committee until becoming disgruntled with the GOP and settling into conservative advocacy.

He founded Latinos for Reform during the 2008 campaign but only truly activated it recently.”

However you feel about the content in the beginning of the ad, telling citizens that it’s a good idea that they not vote is one of the worst messages you can get out before an election.

Oh, wait. No it’s not. “Vote or Die!” is. This one comes pretty close though.

Don't Vote, Immigration Reform, Latinos for Reform, Robert de Posada, Univision

http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Wow, that scared them didn’t it? LOL. The ad should have said, “If you are illegal don’t vote.”
lazzzlo

That was an example of good “Dirty Politics”
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Frankly, I am all for voter suppression. There are so many stupid, ill/malinformed people in this country; the less that vote, the better. Let the adults handle the public policy.

With that said, I do think targeting specific groups for suppression is wrong (other than the aforementioned, that is).
whytee

Ah, the GOP dirty tricks season begins! Can’t wait to see what’s next. Will it be vote caging? Oh wait, that’s already happening. Will it be flyers telling Latinos to vote on a different, special day that’s not Nov. 2? Will it be jamming Democratic office phone lines? Will it be mysteriously wacky voting machines? Will it be voter intimidation at the polls with thugs demanding to see people’s papers? Why not just let people vote and live with the outcome?

“How many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome? Good government. They want everybody to vote! I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as voting populace goes down.” — Conservative GOP activist Paul Weyrich
lazzzlo

Publius219 said:
With that said, I do think targeting specific groups for suppression is wrong (other than the aforementioned, that is).

lol
Call_Me_Ishmael

Publius219 said:
Frankly, I am all for voter suppression. There are so many stupid, ill/malinformed people in this country; the less that vote, the better. Let the adults handle the public policy.

With that said, I do think targeting specific groups for suppression is wrong (other than the aforementioned, that is).

Let us return to founding Constitutional principles. Only male landholders should be granted the vote.
philipjames

Great ad. I agree. I guarantee that there will be more movement on immigration reform if the Republicans get control than there ever would be under the Democrats. Why? Because the Democrats are the best race baiting two timing bunch in the world. Why would they bring about intelligent immigration reform when they can keep it screwed up and count on the votes of all the people negatively affected by the current situation?
We all know that there will have to be some accomodation for the illegals already in the US… but, and this is the big but, you have to secure the border and then deal with the illegal situation. If you propose solutions that allow some or all of the illegals to stay or to come back, then there will be a huge flood of new illegals to take advantage of the new rules. So, first secure the border and I mean really secure the border . Change the rules and then there might be some chance of having this fixed.
blurgh.

philipjames said:
Great ad. I agree. I guarantee that there will be more movement on immigration reform if the Republicans get control than there ever would be under the Democrats. Why? Because the Democrats are the best race baiting two timing bunch in the world. Why would they bring about intelligent immigration reform when they can keep it screwed up and count on the votes of all the people negatively affected by the current situation?
We all know that there will have to be some accomodation for the illegals already in the US… but, and this is the big but, you have to secure the border and then deal with the illegal situation. If you propose solutions that allow some or all of the illegals to stay or to come back, then there will be a huge flood of new illegals to take advantage of the new rules. So, first secure the border and I mean really secure the border . Change the rules and then there might be some chance of having this fixed.

1994-2006.
NeoKong

Why would people who are “supposedly” legally eligible to vote in a federal election be mad about not passing immigration reform…?

Oh wait….
whytee

philipjames said:
Great ad. I agree. I guarantee that there will be more movement on immigration reform if the Republicans get control than there ever would be under the Democrats. Why? Because the Democrats are the best race baiting two timing bunch in the world. Why would they bring about intelligent immigration reform when they can keep it screwed up and count on the votes of all the people negatively affected by the current situation?
We all know that there will have to be some accomodation for the illegals already in the US… but, and this is the big but, you have to secure the border and then deal with the illegal situation. If you propose solutions that allow some or all of the illegals to stay or to come back, then there will be a huge flood of new illegals to take advantage of the new rules. So, first secure the border and I mean really secure the border . Change the rules and then there might be some chance of having this fixed.

Yeah, because in the 12 years of a GOP-controlled congress, of which six of those years had a GOP President, they sure prioritized immigration reform, right? Right?
redwriteblue

In California the “Immigrant Rights” groups tell Legaltinos how to vote on “Voter Education Guides” that are printed in Spanish and mailed to their voter regisration addresses. This is a big business for the “campaign consultants” that get paid by both political parties for this work.

The Immigrant Rights groups are upset with President Obama because he is pushing for the elimination of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” instead of the “Amnesty” for the 20 million Illegal Immigrants working in the U.S. so they probably won’t vote in the numbers that they did in 2008.

Their is a coalition of Immigrants Rights groups, “Reform Immigration for America,” that is led by an Iranian, Ali Noorani that is trying to change the image of the Illegals in front of the Television News cameras at the demonstrations against the U.S. Immigration Laws they are staging in another attempt to fool the American people:

http://www.tcunation.com/profiles/blogs/changing-the-image-of
CAconservative

The “Latinos for Reform” group, thinks Blacks should stay in the back of the Bus. They are constantly urging politicians to put Latino needs in front of Blacks because their becoming a bigger voting block. This is the prevailing mind-set of this group. They suggest promises were broke, what promises? Promises to make criminals “legal citizens”? In order to hide their true meaning, they use the word, REFORM, instead of AMNESTY! Who were they betrayed by? The very politicians that were going to betray LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS, until we got in their face and told them if they did that they would be GONE! If their going use their vote to intimidate politicians into breaking our laws acceptable, I hope they never vote again, EVER!!