Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

Sometimes you just don´t have the time to elaborate on all the action, so here goes, once again, in bullet form.

• Xavier Becerra makes huge announcement that he is for Obama, which of course nobody notices at all, because of some Kennedy´s

• Richardson López, no luck in the U.S., lets just head back to México

• Apparently some Hispanics are still republicans

• When Si Se Puede is not an option to court the Hispanic vote because you are a republican…. wear a Guayabera
  

• Oklahomas run for the border with Mexico

• Bush still hasn´t admitted that he will be the next presidency outlived by Castro

• Hugo Chávez reminds us that coca is not cocaine and talks with leaves in his mouth

So we can only assume that Xavier Becerra, is not only the first in his family to go to college (and Congress) but he must be the first in his whole familia to have ever talked face to face to a Fed Chairman…. or why else would he be drooling allover himself and send out stuff like this…

But before you start celebrating this as some great accomplishment for Hispanics, i.e. a Latino was on T.V. in a non-immigration related story, well guess what Becerra he asked him about?????

if you said Food Stamps you are correct!!!

BECERRA-BERNANKE BACK-AND-FORTH AT BUDGET HEARING

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a hearing today of the House Budget Committee, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, endorsed the need for an economic stimulus package in accordance with the “timely, targeted and temporary” principles advocated by Democrats in congress and a broad range of economists.

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Well well well. If Congress can’t handle immigration reform the next logical step is take it to MTV. Also, how the hell did Becerra sneak in there??

Forum tackles immigration

MTV Tr3s, MTV’s year-old channel for U.S. Hispanics, is bringing the immigration debate to an audience intimately familiar with the issue in Beyond Borders: An MTV Tr3s Immigration Forum (btw, why did they title it like a bad Angelina Jolie movie??).

The program airs at 6 p.m. Saturday on MTV Tr3s, which is Channel 605 on Comcast cable in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, and Channel 416 on DirecTV.

MTV Tr3s hopes to mobilize and inspire a potentially powerful voting bloc. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, 50,000 Hispanics turn 18 every month in the United States, and 87 percent of them are eligible to vote.
The forum, hosted by Gustavo Arellano, creator of the nationally syndicated Ask A Mexican column, includes Residente, the outspoken rapper/lyricist of popular reggaeton duo Calle 13, actress Betty Ortiz of the hit ABC show Ugly Betty, Los Angeles rapper Malverde, and U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.

It’s like their new reality show where Latino gangstaton plus lowly politician unites us all into a single brown vote! I’m sure the viewership will be through the roof, although I’m still holding out for the Mirthala Salinas telenovela…

Since la Neta is apparently already busy doing other stuff instead of updating this blog, It is up to me, once again, to keep you all informed about some of the latest doings of our illustrious leaders.

In this case, a nice audio with Xavier Becerra, informs some rowdy people that he has no intention of torturing Harriet Miers, (now you can find it on your own, even if you have to listen to the whole thing)

Rep. Becerra responds to constituents asking him to support impeachment of President Bush at a recent “Coffee With Your Congressman” meeting in Eagle Rock.

Audio here

Oh yeah, and like the rest of the coconut caucus, he is in love with Nancy Pelosi…

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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