Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

Walking along the corridors of the Congress after the impressive republican defeat in the elections of November 7, a completely different air is breathed. Naturally, the republicans are grieved, and between they fight. Some of them say that the myopia of the White House of the full thing does not admit up to much late that the American public was for the situation in Iraq was the key of his defeat. And others play to “I said it to you”. It did not work, they affirm, this anti-immigrant politics that the extreme right of the party was pleading. “That us jorobó in the elections”, said a republican analyst, “and we lost the Latin vote”.

Overwhelming most of Hispanic voters – 70 per cent - him gave "yes" to democratic candidates, and several conferees of hard hand towards the immigration are packing at present suitcases.

There is not the others to remember him to the next democratic majority that now they have to answer. The one that will be the lideresa of the majority in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was caused by it a little of grief when just on the following day of the elections he announced his agenda for the new meeting and it escaped from him to include the topic of a migratory reform. His relatives make sure that she yes is compromised in spite of achieving an agreement, but they offered an excuses variety, including “it was accidentally” or the list includes things that easily can be approved, like an increase to the minimum wage, and that the migratory reform is "complicated". Perhaps they walk carefully because there get accustomed no to being majority after 12 years in the darkness.

That is easy to understand, but that they are careful, because the Republican Party already boy doing strategy to receive this important Latin vote again. This week they named the republican senator Mel Martínez of the Florida to be a principal collector and spokesman of the Republican National Committee (RNC, in English), the first Hispanic in the position. This was the first thing that he said: "I hope to take to the Hispanics of this nation the message of which the Republican Party is interested by them and they want that there are a part of this party”.

In another political selection, the democratic Latin Americans of the Lower House chose conferee Joe Baca, of California, like president of the Hispanic work surface (Congressional Hispanic Caucus, CHC, for his initials in English) to replace projecting conferee Grace Napolitano, who has to leave the position after being to the control for two years. Seemingly, some of them were thinking that Roof rack would not serve like leader of the democratic Latin Americans and that the democratic leadership was not going to take the Latin group seriously with him to the control. It turns out that the controversy chases to Roof rack. As for example, an uproar came untied when a committee of collection of funds of the CHC destined money to the campaigns in California of his two children. Another tumult happened when several ex-employees accused them of forcing them to be employed at the campaigns of his children when they were still receiving wages of the Congress, something that is not allowed under federal law. Roof rack affirms that has not done badly at all and that simply walk behind him because “some of them are like the crabs and do not want to see the others to be successful”.

His critics say that it will be a disaster, but no other legislator was postulated seriously to preside at the CHC. Roof rack went out elect because, as it happens in Cuba, when only there is a candidate in the electoral ballot paper, since this is the one that goes out although it is a disaster.
Congratulations, I believe.

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