“Politics isn’t just about passion, it’s really about power,” said Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, who along with Veronica Barela, Patricia Barela Rivera, Nita Gonzales, Joelle Martinez, the Hon. Ramona Martinez and Cindy Peña founded the American Dream PAC.
Keynote speaker Mario Solis Marich gives a speech at the inaugural American Dream Political Action Committee breakfast. The event was hosted at the Denver Athletic Club on March 2, 2012, in Denver. More than 200 people attended the event that raised $10,000.
More than 200 Colorado Latinos and their backers, including some 40 elected officials, helped launch the American Dream Political Action Committee this morning with a fundraising breakfast at the Denver Athletic Club in support of Colorado’s ASSET legislation.
The PAC, founded by seven of the state’s most powerful Latinas, is focused – for now – on rallying resources to get the Colorado ASSET bill passed in the state Legislature this year.
A student “Dreamer” from Aurora and syndicated radio personality Mario Solis Marich, whose national Clear Channel show was recently canceled, also spoke in support of the bill, which would create a third tier of tuition – an amount higher than residents pay but below out-of-state rates – for undocumented students at state colleges and universities. This is the sixth time in recent years that the Legislature has considered such a bill.
“Politics isn’t just about passion, it’s really about power,” said Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, who along with Veronica Barela, Patricia Barela Rivera, Nita Gonzales, Joelle Martinez, the Hon. Ramona Martinez and Cindy Peña founded the American Dream PAC. “We need to be able to build political power to get issues like Colorado ASSET to be passed. Being able to financially support candidates who are champions of these issues is one of the things we really need to focus us on as a community. That’s really where the idea came from.”
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