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    GOP roadmap calls for comprehensive immigration reform

    Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus unveiled the party’s roadmap for the future, including a united front on comprehensive immigration reform. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

    GOP roadmap calls for comprehensive immigration reform

    by Steve Peoples, Associated Press11:43 am on 03/18/2013

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Over strong objections from some conservative leaders, the Republican National Committee formally endorsed immigration reform on Monday and outlined plans for a $10 million outreach to minority groups – gay voters among them – as part of a strategy to make the GOP more “welcoming and inclusive” for voters who overwhelmingly supported Democrats in 2012.
    In a report released Monday, the RNC says that the way the party communicates its principles isn’t resonating widely enough and that focus groups perceive the party as “narrow minded,” “out of touch” and “stuffy old men.”
    “The perception that we’re the party of the rich unfortunately continues to grow,” Reince Priebus, the RNC chair, said in a Monday morning speech.
    RELATED: GOP to spend $10 million for outreach to minorities and youth
    To broaden its appeal, the party must reach out to minority voters and others, according to one recommendation in the report: “We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our party’s appeal will continue to shrink,” it said.
    Acknowledging the tough road ahead for some immigration reform in a divided GOP, Priebus after the speech refused to say whether “comprehensive immigration reform” should include a pathway to citizenship and distanced himself from some of the report’s recommendations.
    “Remember these are recommendations made to the RNC. This is not my report,” he said.
    Party leaders have crafted dozens of recommendations following a months-long self-examination prompted by last year’s painful election losses. The report also calls on Republicans to take a harder line with corporate America, loosen political fundraising laws in Washington and in state capitals, and cut in half the number of candidate debates in a shortened 2016 presidential primary calendar.
    “When Republicans lost in November, it was a wakeup call,” Priebus said.
    The Republican National Committee’s shift on minority outreach may be the most visible change in the coming months.
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    Priebus plans to dispatch hundreds of paid workers into Hispanic, black and Asian communities across the nation by the end of the summer, a $10 million effort meant to rival President Barack Obama’s national political machine.
    The RNC will also push for a tone of “tolerance and respect” in the immigration debate, create “senior level advisory councils” focused on minority groups, and establish “swearing in citizenship teams” to connect with new voters immediately after swearing-in ceremonies.
    “We need to go to communities where Republicans do not normally go to listen and make our case,” the report says. “We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian and gay Americans and demonstrate that we care about them, too.”
    The recommendations will not be well received in all corners of the Republican Party.
    Some Republicans, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio among them, are working toward bipartisan immigration reform that is likely to include a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants – sometimes called “amnesty.” Conservative commentator Ann Coulter ripped the idea in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend.
    “If amnesty goes through, America becomes California and no Republican will ever win another national election,” Coulter said.
    A veteran Republican strategist and one of the report’s authors, Sally Bradshaw, acknowledged Monday that there would be opposition within the party, but said “other Republicans are starting to step up.”
    “There is not an easy path for this,” she said. “These are difficult recommendations.”
    RELATED: California GOP’s mission- Revamp party, reach out to Latinos
    The RNC’s recommendations follow an extensive look at what went wrong in 2012.
    Priebus tapped a handful of respected party leaders to examine how the GOP could better talk with voters, raise money from donors and learn from Democrats’ tactics. The report also suggests that party officials could lean more on independent groups such as super political action committees to fund television advertising campaigns, allowing the Republican National Committee to focus on strategy and contacting voters.
    Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary under former president George W. Bush, and Bradshaw, a top adviser to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, were among those leading the inquiry. Republican National Committeeman Henry Barbour, a GOP strategist and nephew of former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, was also part of the group. RNC members Zori Fonalledas of Puerto Rico and Glenn McCall of South Carolina rounded out the five-person committee that listened to Republicans’ ideas and frustrations.
    Those leaders heard from 50,000 rank-and-file members about how to respond to the nation’s shifting demographics.
    Priebus planned a full-scale rollout of their recommendations Monday, although the proposals – particularly those affecting the presidential primary calendar – are far from a done deal. They would have to win the approval of the 168-member RNC and then each state’s election chief would have to abide by the party’s proposed calendar.
    The report recommends reducing the number of presidential primary debates to approximately 10 to 12, with the first scheduled no earlier than Sept. 1, 2015. It calls for the primary calendar to begin with the traditional “carve out” states – such as Iowa and New Hampshire – before moving to a major reorganization, such as a “regional primary system” finished by mid-May.
    While there was much focus on the nuts and bolts of politics, the report also offers extensive recommendations for how Republicans communicate with voters.
    The report also calls for the GOP to take a harder line with corporations.
    “We have to blow the whistle at corporate malfeasance and attack corporate welfare,” it says. “We should speak out when CEOs receive tens of millions of dollars in retirement packages but middle-class workers have not had a meaningful raise in years.”
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    GOP backs immigration overhaul to woo Hispanics

    Catalina Camia, USA TODAY11:18a.m. EDT March 18, 2013

    GOP report says Hispanic voters believe the party's stance on immigration has become "litmus test."


    (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP)
    STORY HIGHLIGHTS


    • GOP conducted a post-election analysis to determine ways it can grow and win elections
    • President Obama and his Democratic Party won White House and gained Senate seats in 2012
    • Proposals call for shorter presidential primary season, fewer GOP debates



    The Republican Party is embracing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, in an effort to attract more Hispanic voters who overwhelmingly backed President Obama and Democrats in the last election.

    The support for an immigration overhaul is part of a $10 million outreach effort that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus formally unveiled Monday. The outreach will begin this year, well ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.
    The outreach proposal, which will include women and young people, is a direct result of a major post-election report aimed at showing how the GOP can reverse its poor showing at the ballot box in 2008 and 2012. In both campaigns, the Republican Party failed to take the White House and did not gain power in the Senate.

    Among the 219 recommendations in the report: Shortening the GOP presidential primary season and cutting in half the number of candidate debates to about 10 to 12 sessions.

    "When Republicans lost in November, it was a wake-up call," Priebus said in remarks at the National Press Club. "We want to build our party and we want to do it with bold strokes. ... We're done with business as usual."

    Obama won a second term on the strength of votes from women, minorities and young people. He took 71% of the Hispanic vote, 55% of women and 60% of young voters under 30, according to surveys of voters as they left polling places.

    "The RNC cannot and will not write off any demographic, community, or region of this country," Priebus said, as he explained that focus groups viewed the party as "narrow minded," "out of touch" and made up of "stuffy old men."

    The report states Republicans "must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform," without going into specific policy proposals. Doing so is "consistent with Republican economic policies that promote job growth and opportunity for all," the report says.
    "If we do not, our party's appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only," the report says.

    In the section devoted to reaching Hispanics, the RNC report is critical about the party's past rhetoric. It is an indirect rebuke at Mitt Romney, who championed self-deportation of undocumented immigrants already in the USA during his march to the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

    "If Hispanics think that we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies," the report states. "In essence, Hispanic voters tell us our party's position on immigration has become a litmus test, measuring whether we are meeting them with a welcome mat or a closed door."

    A bipartisan group of senators has released guidelines for an immigration overhaul, which would lead to a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States. The proposal first aims at tightening the borders and improving the way employers can verify the status of workers before a pathway to citizenship kicks in.
    The pathway to citizenship is the most controversial part of the Senate outline, since many House Republicans view such a proposal as amnesty for lawbreakers. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, heralded as one of the Republican Party's rising stars, is one of the Senate proposal's chief supporters.

    Priebus stressed repeatedly in his remarks that the party's goal is to recast its tone and change perceptions about Republicans. "It's about being decent," he said. "People don't deserve to be disrespected."

    Besides improving the party's messaging and changing its tactics to reach all voters, the RNC report also includes recommendations on updating the GOP's technology and data collection and the way it runs campaigns by using success stories from the states.

    On presidential primaries, Priebus said the party will develop guidelines for fewer debates so that the overall effect is to "help our eventual nominee." The RNC also plans to adopt a shorter primary season, one that will continue emphasizing the "first-in-the-nation" status of states such Iowa and New Hampshire. The goal, however, is to hold an earlier national convention so the nominee will have access to general election funds.

    Many Republicans believe Romney was hurt by the 20 primary debates, which were time consuming and spotlighted negative attacks between the candidates. The long primary season meant Romney had to wait until after the GOP national convention, held last August in Tampa, to tap into general election funds.

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    The Democrats have always gotten a high percent of the minorities, women and young people and always will. Sometimes the young people grow up, get a job, pay taxes and then switch to being a Republican. Also the Democrats are more united whereas the Republicans are divided between rinos and conservatives. The Republicans should concentrate on removing rinos, sticking to their conservative principles mainly less government imo.
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    GOP will have hands full with pitch to minority voters

    By Jim Cross
    Originally published: Mar 18, 2013 - 10:21 am
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    PHOENIX -- The Republican party's plan to attract minority voters isn't going to be effective, in the opinion of a Valley political analyst.

    KTAR political analyst Mike O'Neil said the $10 million outreach campaign is a drop in the bucket and likely won't work because the party remains fractured on immigration reform.

    O'Neil said some party members are hostile to the issue. Mitt Romney took less than 30 percent of the Hispanic vote in November's presidential election.

    "This feels like a futile effort until they decide on a policy level what they want to do. This won't be overcome with a six-month public relations campaign because their problems run far, far deeper."

    O'Neil said it could take decades for the GOP to build trust with minority voters, if ever.

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    RNC admits voters see GOP as 'scary' and 'out of touch'

    March 18, 2013
    Rick Moran
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    In what party chair Reince Priebus calls an "autopsy" of the 2012 election, the Republican National Committee has taken the first step in attempting to reform the party's infrastructure, as well as rebrand the party image to make it less white, less male, and more diverse.

    It's an ambitious plan to be sure. But can it work?

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    "There's no one reason we lost," Priebus said. "Our message was weak; our ground game was insufficient; we weren't inclusive; we were behind in both data and digital; our primary and debate process needed improvement. ... So, there's no one solution: There's a long list of them."

    The report devotes many pages to the need to better connect with minority, female and young voters. Comprehensive immigration reform is a critical first step, it says.

    "It doesn't matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy; if Hispanics think that we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies," it states. "In essence, Hispanic voters tell us our Party's position on immigration has become a litmus test, measuring whether we are meeting them with a welcome mat or a closed door."

    Post-election focus groups with voters drove home the party's shrinking demographic appeal, the report says.

    "Asked to describe Republicans, they said that the Party is 'scary,' 'narrow minded,' and 'out of touch' and that we were a Party of 'stuffy old men,'" it states.

    Though it steers clear of the gay marriage debate, the report also says Republicans need to be more tolerant of gays if it is to have any chance among younger voters. People younger than 30 cast 5 million more votes for Barack Obama than Romney, it says.

    "Already, there is a generational difference within the conservative movement about issues involving the treatment and the rights of gays -- and for many younger voters, these issues are a gateway into whether the Party is a place they want to be," it says.

    The report is long on lists of ailments, but shorter on specific fixes. There are recommendations for better outreach and more focused efforts, but little discussion about the policies and specifics that the party would sell while reaching out to different types of voters.

    Beyond immigration, it barely touches on policy. That was by design, according to the report, because it's not the RNC's purview. Still, policy is no small part of the GOP's internal debate now, which underscores the limitations of what a party committee can do.
    Why the leadership is convinced that immigration reform is the key to winning a larger slice of the Hispanic vote is beyond me. Polls show that GOP support for reform barely moves the needle. It may have a psychological impact but agreeing that there should be a path to citizenship for illegals is just as likely to anger as many law-abiding Hispanics as it attracts.

    I don't know what the answer is, but it isn't to be found in catering to the issues of minority groups. It's insulting to them and reveals that the GOP lacks principles.

    The worst of both worlds.

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