Texas Democratic Party: Moving Texas Forward

Austin- TDP spokeswoman Rebecca Acuña released the following statement in response to Quico Canseco delivering Spanish-language rebuttal to the State of the Union.

“It’s laughable that Republicans think putting Quico Canseco on TV will help them with their Latino outreach efforts. There are few people better than Quico Canseco who can showcase just why Republicans are bad for Latinos. It is ironic that Republicans tapped the person whose district was drawn to have the lowest level of Hispanic voters possible to address Latinos.*”

*Republican redistricting emails from November 2010 that were released this week show that Republican mapmakers tried to draw Quico Canseco a districts that would leave the level of Hispanic registered voters at the lowest level possible. You can read those emails here: http://www.txdemocrats.org/downloads/OHRV.jpg