Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But if the names--the never-ending stream of McThats and O'Thises--do not change very much this year, voters do have three opportunities to change the future of Boston politics. First, Questions One and Two are binding referenda on establishing district representation for the city council and the...
Despite a new superintendent and several attractive new candidates, the next committee may not be able to change the school situation rapidly. The preliminary did show however, that parents of children still in school, mostly Black and Hispanic, were becoming more active electorally. With the school system at the point...
Former committeeman John Tierney and Felix Arroyo have only outside chances. Tierney, who served in the 1960s, has a good political name (his brother was also on the school committee and is now Registrar of Deeds in Suffolk County) but has not distinguished himself in this campaign. Arroyo, a highly...
"We have a duty to encourage Hispanic voter participation in both parties, so that what has happened in the Black community doesn't happen to them." Velasquez said, adding. "We need to involve them rather than to patronize them."
William Velasquez, executive director of the Southwest Voter Registration Project, said that it is possible for Republicans to make great gains in the southwest because of its conservative population. Attracting Hispanic and Chicano voters will be the key to Republican success in that region, he added.