Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

Republican presidential wannabe Mitt Romney, who’s been busy of late fighting with former Big Apple Boob Mayor Rudy Giuliani over who hates beaners more, has now fired the landscaper who works on his suburban Boston home because the guy snuck in some illegals even after Romney said he told him to make sure everyone was on the up-and-up.

“We personally met with the company in order to inform them about the importance of this matter,” Romney said in a statement. “The owner of the company guaranteed us, in very certain terms, that the company would be in total compliance with the law going forward.”

He added that he had given the contractor — Ricardo Saénz, a Colombian he met in church — a second chance after the issue first came up last year.

So didn’t Romney notice that the same people would always show up to work at his house, or do all Mexicans — i.e., all “people with funny accents” — look the same to him?

So those of us in Washington didn´t have to pay squat to hear Alberto GONEzales speak about how he doesn´t believe in torture, whatever that may be, but in case it happens it is authorized even if he can´t remember if he ever tortured anybody.

ANYWAY… apparently Pomona College objects to paying $40,000 or even $35,000 to hear him speak, even if he was the first Hispanic Attorney General EVER, or Bush´s abogado.

AND not just because of the money….

Kelly Schwartz ’10, the ASPC Communications Commissioner and chairperson of the Speakers Committee, said that the committee ultimately made its decision based on a consideration of price and student interest level.

“In the case of Gonzales, it was a combination of not having the funding and the impression that students would not attend this event,” she said, although the committee stopped short of an initial plan to have the ASPC Senate poll students on their interest on the subject. Gonzales’s speaking agency had asked the school to pay him $35,000 in addition to first-class accommodations.

Pomona Professor of Politics Heather Williams, for one, reacted positively to the news.

“Honesty was not his m.o. when he assumed office and he stumbled and dodged through one Senate hearing after another, and it’s certainly not going to be his meal ticket now. Call me old fashioned, but I think there’s something really gross about a celebrity lecture circuit that rewards people for misconduct, scandal, and even felony crimes.”

Call me old fashioned but I prefer attorneys general that have read the Constitution…

Well we have a star in our hands! Guess which half of the Cuban Hispanic dynamic duo is in a doc about how awful Hugo Chavez Venezuela is for the world and how to make an example out of it?

Here’s some clues. He’s named after a President that claims to turn slaves into cheap labor free men and has the inflection when speaking Spanish of (gasp!) his mortal enemy FIDEL.

Give up??

To warn people of the danger Hugo Chavez poses to the United States, the American Security Council Foundation released the hard-hitting documentary Crisis in the Americas. Featuring authoritative interviews with Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL), Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, and former Ambassador Otto Reich, the documentary exposes some of Chavez’s most egregious actions, most notably his willingness to harbor terrorists in Venezuela.

Hmmm. Now who would sponsor said documentary that states what has already been discussed ad nauseum/rapped about/cumbiaed over?

The role of the American Security Council Foundation is to educate and inform Americans about the global challenges to the national security, economic security and moral leadership of the United States. To this end, the ASCF sponsors research, holds conferences, and publishes books, monographs and articles. Distinguished scholars, policy makers, lawmakers and citizens participate in these activities.

Clearly since Miami is under control it is time to expand congressional powers to the rest of the world! On behalf of the Latino blogosphere, pleaaaaase don’t take away the endless source of quote candy that Hugo is!

According to AP we civil rights Latinos have a new leader… and good thing the last one hasn´t done much other than send random press releases…

10 a.m. IMMIGRATION _ four days before the GOP Presidential Candidates participate in Univision’s Presidential Forum, NDN will hold a forum looking at the current state of the immigration debate in the United States. Participants: Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Janet Murguma of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Frank Sharry of the National Immigration Forum, and Joe Garcia and Simon Rosenberg of NDN.

Location: Phoenix Park Hotel, 520 North Capitol St. NW.

Notes: Reporters should RSVP with contact.

(from the AP Daybook)