Latino leaders lean left for … Hillary?

“As New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson began the first-ever presidential campaign by a Hispanic, Latino leaders faced a dilemma.

Is it acceptable, they wondered — especially at a time when Latinos are feeling attacked on the civil rights front — to skip this historic moment and endorse a candidate besides Richardson for the Democratic nomination?

The answer came swiftly when New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced early on that she had won the highly coveted endorsement of Raul Yzaguirre, the former president of the National Council of La Raza, a long-standing Latino advocacy group.”

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