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Fri May 29, 2015, 03:49 PM May 2015

Martin O'Malley Hires Former Director of Hispanic Media for Barack Obama

Alida Garcia @leedsgarcia
@GabiDomenzain's hire by O'Malley operation is a major win 4 #immigration advocates. Our issue will surely be front & center w/ her there.


Gabriela Domenzain, former director of Hispanic media for Obama when he garnered a record 71% of the Latino vote in 2012, is joining O’Malley’s campaign as the director of public engagement where she will have a hand in communications, policy, and political outreach, a campaign source said.

“In Maryland, you speak to Latinos and they call him the most pro-Latino governor of the United States,” Domenzain told BuzzFeed News. “In other states they don’t know him but they should.

Domenzain, was considered for the director of Hispanic media position in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to sources with knowledge, and said she believes Americans want new voices on the left, especially voices as progressive as O’Malley.

Domenzain ties her passion on immigration to O’Malley’s response to the surge of Central American undocumented minors across the border last summer, where she says national leaders like Clinton and Obama said the children should be sent back.

She was heartened however when O’Malley, speaking at a Democratic Governors Association press conference last summer, said the country should act like Americans and give children “fleeing death” refuge. “That brought the possibility of dignity back to the conversation and turned my head,” she said.


read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/omalley-hires-former-obama-hispanic-media-director-for-senio?utm_term=.xd2LbB82Rd#.rywoo6z19e

Gabriela Domenzain ?@GabiDomenzain 1h1 hour ago
Con mucha mucha emocion, I'm joining @GovernorOMalley's campaign for POTUS!!! via @BuzzFeedNews @Carrasquillo http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/omalley-hires-former-obama-hispanic-media-director-for-senio?utm_term=.xd2LbB82RdOOF!!
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Martin O'Malley Hires Former Director of Hispanic Media for Barack Obama (Original Post) bigtree May 2015 OP
Awesome, he makes good choices...hopefully he pulls a lot of the Obama folks snooper2 May 2015 #1
O'Malley seems to be on top of things... chillfactor May 2015 #2
"they call him the most pro-Latino governor of the United States' FSogol May 2015 #3
Excellent news. askew May 2015 #4
Yes, very awesome. n/t FSogol May 2015 #6
» bigtree May 2015 #5
 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
1. Awesome, he makes good choices...hopefully he pulls a lot of the Obama folks
Fri May 29, 2015, 03:57 PM
May 2015

Clinton can keep the insiders they have been using since the 90's

askew

(1,464 posts)
4. Excellent news.
Fri May 29, 2015, 05:19 PM
May 2015

He was definitely the most pro-immigration governor in the country and I like that they mentioned his using New Americans to refer to immigrants and how he treats the issue and people with dignity.

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