Mirror, mirror: AZGOP launches Hispanic website

The State’s Repub­li­can Party launched a web­site last month to address “the issues and con­cerns of one of the state’s most dynamic and diverse com­mu­ni­ties.” Party Chair­man Randy Pullen is opti­mistic about the effort, “Democ­rats have con­sis­tently taken [His­pan­ics’] votes for granted, and we share their feel­ing that our gov­ern­ment has got­ten seri­ously off track. Combined with our mes­sage of tra­di­tional fam­ily val­ues, I believe that our prin­ci­ples mir­ror those of Arizona’s His­panic population.”

The new site fea­tures groups, pho­tos, dis­cus­sion forums, a blog, and links to YouTube videos includ­ing tes­ti­mo­ni­als from mem­bers of the Ari­zona His­panic Repub­li­can Coalition.

For Alice Lara, a founder of the Ari­zona Latino Repub­li­can Asso­ci­a­tion, this ini­tia­tive “goes to show that the AZGOP is work­ing hard to con­nect to con­ser­v­a­tive His­pan­ics through­out the state of Arizona.”

Ya era hora! Check out the web­site at http://azhispanics.ning.com, but don’t read too much into the URL address. While azhis­pan­ics is self-explanatory, ning is sim­ply a plat­form that allows users to cre­ate social net­works online.