Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

So yes, I do know that our Hispanic Patron Saint, Cesar Chavez, was born on a March 31….. and that was a few days ago, but guess who else wishes you a Belated Happy Cesar Day….

Congressional Hispanic Caucus 110th Congress – Congressman Joe Baca, Chair

For Immediate Release
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

César Chávez Hailed by Hispanic Caucus

( Washington , DC ) – Several Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) were joined by other Members of Congress and organizational leaders this week as they recognized the life and work of César Chávez, a labor organizer and civil rights activist.

This week’s floor statements (surely not even C-span broadcast those) and press conference (not attended by any press) coincided with a week that shares both the anniversaries of his birth and death. Across the country, the week is being marked with celebrations in 65 cities in over 30 states, including statewide holidays in 10 states.

Specifically, they were supporting H. Res. 76, a Congressional non-binding resolution urging the establishment of a federal national holiday honoring César Chávez, and urging public schools to teach about his life and contributions. The resolution currently has 61 co-sponsors.

It totally goes on an and on as almost each Hispanic in Congress tries to prove that they love Cesar more than all the rest....

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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 we mentioned way back, the 100 Primer Impacto Hours agenda for the Hispanic Caucus included getting us an Official Museum to exhibit Selena’s dresses and all that Chicano art on loan from Cheech Marin.

And yes, our very own museum is moving forward, faster than immigration reform or universal healthcare.

Now you may think this is a non-controversial bill, with not much conflict in sight (other than where the hell are they going to find room for it on the Mall).

Well, think again.

According to our nonbinding unconfirmed sources, there is growig tension among Hispanic legislators who, despite their public bipartisan bigender support of the Museum, are privately shouting at each other and arguing about everything from the name of the building to the order in which the 7 foot wax statues of themselves will appear.

(It is only a matter of time before the gringo media does this story, so please credit us exclusively, with the exclusive details you will only find here).

Here are some of the names they are fighting over:

• The Cesar Chavez Chicano Si Se Puede Museo, proposed by Hilda Solís
• The Si Se Puede Cesar Chavez Museum of La Raza, proposed by Joe Baca
• The Cesar Chavez-Dolores Huerta-Ricardo Montalbán Si Se Puede Museum, proposed by Grace Napolitano
• The Elvira Arellano Latino Immigrant Contributions To America Museum, proposed by Luis Gutiérrez
• The Hispanic-American Third World Country Museum of Freedom, proposed by Ileana Ros Lethinen
• The We Have Been Here for Five Generations Museum, proposed by Ken Salazar
• The Latino-Chicano-Mexitlán Museo de Nuestra Raza, proposed by Lucille Roybal Allard
• The Valentina Frida Kahlo Latina Power Museum, proposed by Loretta Sánchez
• The Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Virgen Morena Patrona de América Museum, proposed by Ciro Rodríguez
• The Humble Beginings From a Dirt Floor In Texas to the Mall Museum, proposed by Silvestre Reyes
• The Xavier Becerra Nuestro Orgullo National Latino Museum on the Mall, proposed by Xavier Becerra

Some of the exhibits and items that may be featured:

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Our favorite intel chief ex border patrol caucus member, Silvestre Reyes, just returned from Pelosi’s trip to Iraq, in which he was relegated to carrying her luggage.

Apparently, following Pelosi around lead him to conclude that the original nonbinding opinion which he had about troop increase in Iraq, which he changed, but then changed back to, is the correct nonbinding opinion that he has now, again.

More about his surge vs no surge opinion here (this was before the trip).

Now after the trip, he has reiterated that his original nonbinding opinion is the true one. (confused yet?)

We can only hope that he took advantage of his trip to the scene of the crime, to learn the difference between Al Qaeda and Hezbollah.

Next, he should learn how to use fonts. (scroll down, no need to read anything there)

Recent Caucus adventures in the news…

• Xavier Becerra prepares to slam Bush in Spanish
• Mario Diaz Balart swears himself in, in Third World Country Florida, because Washington “is not reality”.
• Ileana Ros Lehtinen takes a break from calling for the assassination of world leaders and wants “real” reforms at the U.N.
• Comerce Secretary Carlos Gutiérrez, represents Bush at inauguration of Hugo Chávez ally.
• Nydia Velázquez introduces legislation to expand the internets in el barrio.
• Robert Menéndez does something related to genocide in Armenia.
• Silvestre Reyes politely disagrees with Cheney
• Ken Salazar thanks democrats as self appointed official spokesperson for the whole state of Colorado.