Rep. Ciro Rodriguez ripped the Republican Party today for not scheduling a Hispanic speaker during prime-time television coverage of its national presidential nominating convention. Rodriguez, a Democrat, also charged that the GOP selected San Antonio Republican Henry Bonilla to be co-chairman of the convention as a token effort to put a Latino face on a party that favors the wealthy at the expense of Hispanics. "They continue to neglect our community, then they present a façade,"said Rodriguez, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chairman. [more
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