Study: Discrimination persists for Hispanics running for office

“Congress has more Hispanic members than at any other time in history, but a new survey of top elected officials says many Latino candidates still face discrimination as they try to ascend the political ladder.

Democrat Tim Cruz, a former mayor of this burgeoning meatpacking city who is running for an open seat on the Kansas Board of Education, has had some experience with this. The last time he campaigned in his sprawling southwest Kansas district, his Republican challenger publicly accused the third-generation Kansan of being an illegal immigrant.”

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