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From: DCCC Press <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 16, 2016 at 2:25:58 PM EDT
To: Javier Gamboa <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: ICYMI: Latino Magazine Profiles Congressional Hispanic Leaders, DCCC Chair Ben Ray Luján, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Linda Sanchez, & BOLD PAC Chair Tony Cardenas

ICYMI: Latino Magazine Profiles Congressional Hispanic Leaders, DCCC Chair Ben Ray Luján, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Linda Sanchez, & BOLD PAC Chair Tony Cardenas
“What we’ve seen is this anti-Latino, anti-Hispanic agenda that has been brought to the House floor, magnified by the influence of Donald Trump and the ugly things he’s saying in his race for the presidency.”
– DCCC Chair Ben Ray Luján
Latino Magazine: Taking a Seat at the Table<http://www.latinomagazine.com/spring2016/taking-a-seat-at-the-table.html>
By Patricia Guadalupe
Highlights from Latino Magazine’s interview with DCCC Chair Ben Ray Luján:

•        It’s important that we not be the last invited to the table, but that we are only the first and make sure others come along. We have to reach out and pull others in. You have to mentor others. Keep the doors open and make sure that you expand that representation.”

•        “I’m concerned with the lack of governing that is coming from the Republican majority. They are governing from one crisis to another. We have seen this with the government shutdown, the threat of a shutdown, including the threat to shut down the Department of Homeland Security over the president’s executive action on DACA and DAPA. They were basically saying there shouldn’t be any protections for young undocumented immigrants and parents and children,” contends Luján. “What we’ve seen is this anti-Latino, anti-Hispanic agenda that has been brought to the House floor, magnified by the influence of Donald Trump and the ugly things he’s saying in his race for the presidency.

•        Luján believes that he and his fellow Democrats will be able to take advantage of what he says is that negative atmosphere and Trump’s anti-Latino rhetoric, to increase the number of Democrats in Congress. Part of effort is as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, commonly known as “D Triple C” or “D Trip.” The DCCC recruits candidates and raises funds, and the chairmanship is the fourth-ranking position among House Democrats. Luján is the first Hispanic in the post.

•        My responsibility is to reach out all over the country and help recruit candidates to make a difference in people’s lives, protect Medicare and Social Security, make college affordable, respect voting rights, all those and other issues happen to be Democratic issues, and I’m hoping that we will get more Democrats elected across the United States.”
Continue reading Latino Magazine’s Taking a Seat at the Table here<http://www.latinomagazine.com/spring2016/taking-a-seat-at-the-table.html>
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For Immediate Release, May 16, 2016
CONTACT: Javier Gamboa (202) 741-1879