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Hispanic Group Puts Weight Behind Gonzales Rights Organization Wants to Work More Closely With Bush

By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 9, 2005; Page A03

The National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization, embraced Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at an awards ceremony last night, breaking with other civil rights organizations that have denounced Gonzales for his role in producing the administration memo that allowed harsh treatment of detainees overseas.

Although La Raza supported Gonzales's appointment as attorney general, last night's ceremony marked a first, highly public step in the group's effort to alter its image as a left-leaning organization, said Janet Murguia, its president and chief executive.

Gonzales's appearance at the ceremony was his first before a large Hispanic civil rights group since he was confirmed last month by the Senate. La Raza hopes the warm reception will show the Bush administration that it seeks to move to the center politically and gain more access to the White House. President Bush declined to attend all of La Raza's annual conferences during his first term, citing the group's criticism of his policies.

Mr Bush had his policies criticized by La Raza mostly for failing to simply open the borders wide to all comers. --klaatu

"We want to make sure that people understand that we are reaching out to this administration," Murguia said. "We think it is a unique opportunity when a president is in his second term . . . to get things done.

Yup. They are no longer concerned -- if they ever were -- with the opinions of the voters, as they cannot be re-elected no matter what they do. --klaatu

"I know there are some folks who've said maybe NCLR La Raza -k is leaning left in the past or choosing sides," said Murguia, who served as deputy director for legislative affairs for the Clinton White House and as a liaison between the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign and consbreastuent groups in 2000. "I want to make a clear point: We are reaching out to all sides, we're going to build coalitions, build bridges and put our people first."

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Ah yes. Put La Raza first. "For La Raza, everything, for all others, nothing". How inclusive and diverse.

-- The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often buttume the appearance, and produce the effects, of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" ================================================================== "Sometimes, Evil drives a mini-van." --Desperate Housewives