Seven Survivors are headed to Ohio just prior to the Republican Convention.  Why prior to? Let me share the strategy.

Dear Friend,

            Tell me if I’m wrong, I wish I were, but the Republicans do not have a plan to reach the Hispanic voter!!!

            I grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood – we were Democrats – I joke that a Democratic Party voter registration card came with our birth certificates.

            But something happened after the time of Kennedy and the Democratic Party moved away from the family and led the fight for abortion.  Soon there were Republicans in our neighborhood and as the Democratic Party slid further and further into a moral abyss, more and more Catholic Democrats became Republicans.

Let me state without equivocation:  I am not endorsing any political party!

I don't care to get involved in politics - I say vote your faith, for the protection of the preborn and the defense of the family!

Now, our Italian Catholic neighbors also began to desert the Democratic Party for their godless moral policies, as did other Catholic ethnic groups.

But there is one glaring exception!!!

The Hispanic community!

It sickens me as I watch Republicans and conservatives dance around the Hispanic community – or worse ignore the Hispanic community.

WHY?

Because Republicans and conservatives wrongly believe that immigration is the only thing that matters to the Hispanic community.

They are dead wrong!!!

My Grandmother was 100% Hispanic, Juaquina Robles.  My mother and father, from Tucson, Arizona, spoke Spanish fluently, together they had 11 children.  I grew up in the Mexican and Irish Catholic family culture.

I loved it.

   Meet Zaira Perez.  Today she is 16 years old but she has been a leader at Survivors Camp for the last 3 years.  Zaira is fearless and always the first one to raise her hand to volunteer to lead an event. 

     Zaira commands the respect of her fellow campers, all her peers, because she is passionate and not overbearing.  When Zaira makes decisions to move people around during a street event, the other kids know it is because she is trying to make their time more effective.  

     Because "more effective" means more babies' lives are saved!