Whether you agree/disagree with him... He's going to dominate the base with statments like this
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has never seen a “Hispanic panhandler” in Texas because Hispanics would find it “shameful to be begging on the streets,” he said during a “Q &A Session” with U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce CEO and President Javier Palomarez. Responding to a question about how to inform, mobilize, and attract Hispanic voters in 2016, the Republican presidential hopeful reasoned that the Hispanic community is a “fundamentally conservative one” because they “work their fingers to the bones.”
In my view, the Hispanic community is a fundamentally conservative one. If you look at the values that resonate in our community: they are faith, family, patriotism, hard work.
Some years ago, I was having lunch with a Hispanic entrepreneur in Austin. He asked me a question. He said, “When was the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?” And that’s a great question. You and I grew up in Texas. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Hispanic panhandler. And the reason is in our community it would be shameful to be begging on the streets.
Now if you want people to work their fingers to the bones — hard work — you’ll have Hispanic men and women lining up to work hard and provide for their families. Those are all conservative values. And I think the most potent ethos in the Hispanic community is what we believe in. It’s the shared value in our community.
[…] How do you connect with the Hispanic community? Some of it is that you go and connect with shared values, asking for their support. In Texas in 2012, I received 40 percent of the Hispanic vote at the exact same time that Mitt Romney was getting clobbered with 27 percent of the Hispanic vote nationwide.
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2015/04/29/3652943/ted-cruz-panhandler/
