KHOU NewsAUSTIN, (AP) – TITLE: “Contamos”
LENGTH: 30 seconds
AIRING: Univision and Spanish-language stations during the World Cup.
Spoken entirely in Spanish, the ad opens with Greg Abbott’s sister-in-law, Rosie Phalen, sitting in a kitchen and talking about first meeting the Republican nominee for governor more than 30 years ago. Abbott, who often mixes Spanish into campaign speeches but isn’t fluent, is filmed chatting and laughing at a picnic with the family of his wife, who’s the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants. “His values are our values. Faith, family and honesty,” Phalen says in Spanish.
The ad ends with Abbott surrounded by his teenage daughter, Audrey, and others. Two are holding soccer balls as Abbott’s logo appears onscreen with the words “para gobernador” (for governor).
ANALYSIS: Abbott’s first television ad since winning the GOP nomination in March is a rebuttal to what critics and Democrats contend is the biggest problem facing Texas Republicans – Hispanic voters. The Texas Republican Party ratified a harder line on immigration in its party platform earlier this month, and the GOP is carrying a predominantly white slate of statewide candidates into November.
Abbott has said he wants to break the record for Hispanic support by a Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate. He and most in Texas politics considered the mark to have been set by George W. Bush in 1998, when some polls put him capturing as much as 49 percent of the Hispanic vote. Abbott hasn’t used the same harsh rhetoric on immigration as others in his party, but has been criticized for using the phrase “third world” in describing corruption on the border. As attorney general, he’s also defended redistricting maps that Hispanic civil rights groups say were drawn to weaken the strength of minority voters.
Abbott here is introducing Spanish-speaking viewers to his diverse family, which he often mentions while campaigning. If he wins in November, his wife, Cecilia, would be the first Hispanic first lady of Texas.
http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Abbotts-first-TV-ad-since-primary-in-Spanish-263520521.html
Posted by Diggerdan? Did he rise from the grave or something? lol
Just noticed that. LOL
No, I posted it. 😉
Notified Admin.
TREASON!!!! This is an ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY! By putting a political ad in Spanish, you are aiding and abetting Mexicans and encouraging them to come here and encouraging them to not have to speak English or embrace the American culture all for your political gain. You cannot serve two masters or two countries, only ONE!
TREASON!!!
“Abbott has said he’s fighting for the Hispanic vote in his race against Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis. He has highlighted the fact that if he’s elected, his wife Cecilia would be the first Latina to be first lady in Texas.
Abbott also has said the Republican Party is a natural fit for the growing Hispanic vote. Democrats have scoffed at the idea, citing such GOP initiatives as Voter ID that they say disenfranchise minority voters.
Abbott’s ad features his mother-in-law and sister-in-law saying that he is a loving husband and father, that his values are their values and that Texas can count on Abbott as they have.”
San Antonio Express News
What a piece of shit he is.
There’s no such thing as a Hispanic vote, a black vote, a white vote, an Asian vote and so on.
There’s ONLY an AMERICAN VOTE!
And thanks to the elite and their rigged Diebold machines, Americans DON’T have a vote.
Hang ’em all!!
Hang ’em ALL, NC?
Shouldn’t we vote on that, or something?
Heh, heh, heh…
that smiling face looks like a Viagra commercial. phew.
Let me remind everyone:
President Teddy Roosevelt;
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile.
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
In other words, Greg Abbott has committed treason!
agreed NC.