A GOP-linked group, Latinos for Reform, is encouraging Nevada Latinos not to vote in November with their new, controversial ad.
The president of Latinos for Reform, Robert Desposada, claims that the ad–which has aired in both English and Spanish–is in response to dissatisfaction with immigration reform, according to the Huffington Post today.
Desposada told Politico’s Ben Smith that staying home on Election Day was “the only way for Hispanics to stand up and demand some attention.”
“To ask a community, any community to silence their voice as a way to resolve or react during a time when their voice is most needed, is what makes all this reprehensible,” said Luis Valera of UNLV’s Government Relations in a KTNV report.
According to the Huffington Post, “Nevada Democrats convened on Monday to discuss the ad and have since called on Sharron Angle and Nevada GOP Gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval to impugn the message.”
The same group created a stir in 2008 “when they cropped up in Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Mexico with an ad campaign that sought to drive racial divisions using a supposed allegiance of then candidate-Obama’s to African-Americans over Latinos.”