"crickets".

[sufrommich]

Gov. Rick Perry received a tepid response when he addressed the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials on Thursday, joking about the pronunciation of a Hispanic appointee's last name and frequently staring blankly at the audience when they failed to respond to his conservative applause lines. ...

But a joke about how perfect it was to appoint Jose Cuevas to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission because his name sounds like Jose Cuervo - a brand of tequila - fell flat. Perry struggled to regain his confidence as he described Texas as a land of opportunity.


According to a San Antonio news report, just a handful of people in the audience of 500 applauded after the potential presidential hopeful's speech. And there were protesters outside denouncing several harsh immigration laws backed by Perry
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/24/rick_perry_latinos

[el_bryanto]

1. That's not good

One thing a governor of a boarder state should be able to do is talk to Latinos.

Bryant

[sufrommich]

2. My prediction: the more he talks, the more voters see another

Dubya in the making.

[ret5hd]

3. boarder? what are you implying?

[el_bryanto]

4. Texas is on the border between Mexico and United States

Sorry - put in an extraneous a.

Bryant

[Javaman]

5. My apologies to the rest of the US

cement head perry will flame out.

there is all sorts of shit that will bubble up.

[ChazInAz]

6. Just shows

how insulated from his citizenry the clotpoll is. The egregious very rich very white man never sees an Hispanic who isn't a servant, gardener or janitor. The rest of the folks who live in border states (I'm in Arizona), if they aren't actually Hispanic themselves, know and appreciate a huge number of Mexican-Americans. We live together, work together, marry one another and basically accept one another as fellow human beings and toilers in the vineyard of life. Making a cheap joke about my friends, neighbors and family members is not going to win any points with this guy, whose ancestors quite literally came from the Caucasus!