Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

As you may have noticed along with all the Hispanic Nevada sleeping giant hoopla, we got a flurry of Hispanic endorsements, some from people we know, like our very own chief intelligence Hispanic, Silvestre Reyes (who took a Woman’s and Black man´s job) and some from Hispanics not even we have heard of.

But our favorite endorsement news comes from our favorite sisters in Congress, and ex-coconut caucus members, Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sánchez, who on the same day endorsed rival candidates.

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As they say…. Hell hath No fury like a Hispanic congresswoman scorned….

Seems like there will be no reconciliation soon between the Sánchez sisters and de facto leader of the Hispanic Caucus, Joe Baca, because now they are messing with la familia…

So here is the latest: Loretta Sánchez donated a whole 100 dollars (less than she spends on one pair of shoes) to one of the political rivals of Joe Baca´s son Jeremy, a convicted drunk driver also arrested for beating “altercating” his girlfriend.

Jeremy Baca was running for a council seat in San Bernardino and lost to Vincent Yzaguirre, supported by Sánchez.

Paula Negrete, Sanchez’s communications director, said the decision to support Yzaguirre had nothing to do with the spat between the two members of Congress.

“There is no connection,” Negrete said. “She was contacted by (Yzaguirre’s) campaign. She spoke to him on the phone. His priorities were in line with what she believes in. That’s why she decided to support him.”

But even MORE interesting than a little interfamilia squabble that nobody cares about, except for bloggers like us, is the “reappearance” of The Politico and their “coverage” of the Hispanic Caucus.

Baca Vs. Sanchez: Round 293

By Josephine Hearn

The San Bernardino city council will not have Jeremy Baca, youngest son of Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) as one of its members, thanks in part to Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.).

Sanchez donated to the younger Baca’s opponent and the ultimate victor in the primary race, Vincent Yzaguirre. Sanchez’s spokeswoman denied that the donation had anything to do with defeating young Baca, or with the bad blood between Sanchez and the elder Baca. Yzaguirre also got support from Republicans seeking to undercut the elder Baca’s power in the area.

Yzaguirre also got support from Republicans seeking to undercut the elder Baca’s power in the area.

Stephen Wall at the San Bernardino Sun has the story.

Copyright 2007 POLITICO

It is nice to see that our very own Josefina has learned how to attribute sources (at least to anglo papers) but I must comment about the very cliché headline, and failed attempt at copying this blog, of course without retribution attribution…

and I can`t help but add, that I know many in the Hispanic Media who would to have a full time salary to write lame 3 parragraph monolingual stories copied from a local newspaper…

The dozens of readers of this blog probably think Alberto GONEzales is the only Hispanic around, because of our intense coverage of him lately, and that is pretty bad considering he is not even a “true” member of the Coconut Caucus, but hey we need to get all the mileage we can out of him before he resigns for personal reasons and to spend more time torturing his family…

So what have the rest of our fearless leaders been up to lately? Here is a glimpse:

Loretta Sánchez takes on Nancy Pelosi… and wins…

Luis Gutiérrez represents Illinois, but he is everywhere else

Since Richardson López is sooooo well known by voters… he no longer needs to be on TV

Meanwhile…. Ciro Rodríguez and Henry Cuellar attend a funeral

Hilda Solís gets a Post Office named

Meanwhile, super busy Senator, Mel Martínez, now also in a campaign to promote gay marriage

Diaz Balart, the only Latino not driving a Honda... (or at least pretending to support Ford)

Despite representing New York, José Serrano still thinks he was elected in Vieques or something…

When he is not busy promoting Bush´s immigration plan, Carlos Gutiérrez is waiting for Castro to die…

Grace Napolitano does some complicated local water hearing thing for political reasons

So when I saw this new study today, i decided this blog needs a new section on “racial findings news” to mock those who still believe there is more than one race (other than the human race) and believe that Hispanic is a race and deny that EVERYBODY’s DNA has African roots, but that is another topic…

Apparently new “research” shows that parents of the Tiger Woods of the world buy their kids computers, force them to go to the library and the zoo…

Here goes:

Interracial Couples Invest More in Kids

Parents who are of different races, such as a white father and an Asian-American mother, spend more time and money on their kids than parents who are both of the same race, new research shows.

So-called biracial (aka interracial or multiracial) parents are more likely than their “monoracial” (WTF is that?) counterparts to provide their children with a home computer, private schooling and educational books and CDs and to make sure they participate in reading activities, dance, music or art lessons outside of school and get trips to the zoo, library and other cultural venues.

The “biracial advantage” only holds for comparisons with same-race couples from the two racial groups represented by the parents—for instance, if a Latino and white couple is compared with a Latino-Latino couple or a white-white couple. The finding disappears if all biracial couples, regardless of racial pairing, are compared with the entire pool of same-race couples (combining all couples that are white-white, black-black, Latino-Latino and so forth).

Unfortunately the research doesn’t tell us what happens to:

the black, Cuban, Irish, Australian children of Soledad O’Brien

the Japanese Peruvian children Alberto Fujimori,

the future Mexican, dutch, Belgian, black children of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker

the we’d love to see Lebanese, barranquillan, Haitian children of Shakira and Wyclef Jean

the multiracial multicontinental international children of Angelina Jolie

the Hispanic vs Hispanic traumatized self hater children of Loretta Sánchez and Joe Baca in Second Life

AND

the potential insane children of venezuelan presidente Hugo Chávez who secretly wants to do Condi Rice.

Can´t we all just get along?

So why do these things happen when I am outta town and can’t update my blog?, well such is life…

So bye bye Loretta and now bye bye Linda.

We did report on the fact that all this is the fault of Cesar Chavez…but Linda is claiming that she is leaving the Hispanic Caucus for “structural reasons”, (i.e. Joe baca) she should have just used the Washington lingo and said she wants to spend more time with her family… even though she is single…

The story and if you want the official bs I am including both press releases:

STATEMENT FROM CONGRESSWOMAN LINDA SÁNCHEZ ON DECISION TO SUSPEND MEMBERSHIP IN CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS

“I have decided to suspend my membership in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) for the 110th Congress because I believe that the current leadership has not made needed structural reforms to ensure that the caucus is more equitable and inclusive of all its members.
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