Harris County GOP: Hispanics are freeloaders

What will it take for the Hispanic Community to come out and vote in November? The Harris County GOP and their candidate for Tax Assessor Don Sumners, are doing everything they can to get them to vote including publicly insulting them:

On the recent episode of the PBS local series Red, White and Blue, Republican candidate for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Don Sumners was asked if he was concerned about getting the support of the Hispanic community after defeating incumbent Leo Vasquez. His answer concluded with the following - “I don’t have a problem with their (Hispanics) agenda except for trying to get benefits that may not have been earned.”

So, to the GOP, only Hispanics try to get freebies. Sumners must think we are freeloaders looking for handouts, but not the white folk. No the white folk of the GOP give out the freebies, like turkeys and bicycles to Hispanic children at predominately Hispanic schools. Here is what their chairman said about the turkeys:

On Friday, December 18, 2009 your Harris County Republican Party continued our tradition of donating holiday turkeys to economically disadvantaged families at our adopted school, J.R. Harris Elementary.  JR Harris is a Title I school that is 95% Hispanic.

They are real proud of their $5 turkeys when it comes to the Hispanic Community. State Representative Armando Walle commented on Don Sumner's stupidity:

“Mr. Sumner’s position that Hispanic families don’t work hard for what they earn is both ignorant and offensive but not the least bit surprising. With their inflammatory rhetoric and political agenda, Texas Republicans have made it clear there is no room for Hispanics in their Party.   

We will see if the Hispanic Community agrees in November.