Ruiz to Latinas After Trump’s Hate-Filled Rally: ‘Vote Harris. Our Lives Depend on it.’
State Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Ruiz (D-29) has a response for Tony Hinchcliffe, Donald Trump’s warmup act at Madison Square Garden, who last night referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Tweeted Ruiz: “Clearly you never consulted Webster’s Dictionary for the definition of trash. In case you can’t read look in a mirror. Despierta Latinas… It will only get worse. Vote Kamala Harris because nuestras vidas depend on it.”
A veteran lawmaker, Ruiz first won her senate seat in 2007 and steadily worked her way up through the ranks, building a reputation as a no-nonsense children’s advocate as chair of the Senate Education Committee prior to become majority leader.
Ruiz routinely educates on the disparities in public education in New Jersey.
For a FULL condemnation by the Latino Caucus of Hinchcliffe’s remark, please go HERE.
STATEMENT OF SENATORS RUIZ AND POU ON YESTERDAY’S TRUMP RALLY
TRENTON, NJ: Senators M. Teresa Ruiz and Nellie Pou issue the following statement:
Yesterday’s Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden was a disgusting display of vulgarity and racism, attacking the diversity that makes this country beautiful and strong. The comments about our Latino community, and our Puerto Rican family in particular, were nothing short of horrific. The Latino community in the United States is vibrant and passionate, filled with human beings who have contributed as much to this country as anyone. We are doctors and nurses and musicians and teachers and public servants. We are also soldiers who have served valiantly and died in the name of this country. We have bled for the values that this country holds dear, values that Donald Trump and the Republican Party are working hard to systematically destroy. We are not garbage and the idea that a former (and aspiring) Commander in Chief waited until hours had passed and prominent Latinos around the world had condemned these ignorant statements before even attempting to try and downplay what was put forward in his name should speak volumes to all about the type of country we will have if we wake up on November 6th with Donald Trump as President.
New Jersey is the sixth most segregated school system in the nation. In 2018 the Latino Action Network filed a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey to address the segregation of New Jersey’s public schools. The lawsuit also argues that the state has failed to address the racial imbalance in schools. “Home-rule” is a contributing factor to the segregation. The NAACP and The United Methodist Church of Greater New Jersey are also plaintiffs included in the lawsuit.
Education is the Civil Rights issue of our time.
An untimely joke that is in very poor taste does not rise to the level of this lawsuit which, “landed like a gut punch to the state’s progressive reputation. Let us have equal outrage to this timely issue.
Vote Harris: Defund the police, no fracking, no drilling, taxpayer-paid transgender operations in prison, no border wall, citizenship for 20 million illegal immigrants, she supported bailing out rioters et al!
According to these people, you’d think Trump himself said the joke.
Latinos and Latinas are jumping on the Trump train! They see through this hustle! They realize that their lives were much better off under the Trump Presidency! Those Latinos and Latinas who DO support Trump are considered GARBAGE, by Biden/Harris!