Let Public Places discriminate against our friends, the Gay Community, tall corporations jumped in right away and said to the governor dont sign that bill. They jumped in there immediately. Our Gay Community we love. The latinos are a lot more people. Where are our corporate buddies at now . We need them to talk to their friend in the Republican Congress and is a you need to vote for Immigration Reform right now. Ere not going to give up. My perspective is Congress Needs to vote on this and they need to do it soon. This is a Law Enforcement and security economic issue. His is about us. This is about america, about who we are as americans. Ive heard republicans say, this president is only going to enforce laws he wants to. My perspective is, congress has a job to do. How the president does his job does not mean they should not be doing theirs. They ought to be doing their jobs. [applause] and both branches ought to be working together. And i know how hard this is. We could not get a dem with a Republican Congress. But that is why we elected these people to go there, to tackle the most difficult issues we have in the country. And they should be accountable. Flex but you know, what your position is, its so interesting to me but you know, what your position is, its so interesting to me, because obviously there are those within the Republican Party who are just resisting. There is the radio crowd that is saying that you are rewarding people who have done illegal things. You are in a position of a civil war within the Republican Party over this issue. How do you see it playing out . I think in the end, my side will win stop will win. Or it will be the end of the party. But the end of the party . Flex yes the end of the party . Yes. Thats the way i see it. The truth is, hispanics are growing in force and if they feel like the Republican Party does not have anything for them, that republicans are not going to win the white house. They will lose control of the house and senate. His is an important issue. Some are marks from former out former attorney general alberto gonzalez. Lastly, a house subcommittee held a hearing on marijuana use and safety while driving. Members looked at several issues, including the challenge of creating federal standards for using recreational drugs. The hearing is an hour and 45 minutes. In 2016 unless you have some latino vote for republicans its difficult to see on the map thousand republicans could twin presidency. Its going to be a challenge. Thats not my area. Weve got you here on the hot seat so were turning up the heat. Ms. Wilson, what do you think about this idea unless the party deals with voter disenfranchisement issues, Immigration Reform, the republicans have a troubled future . I thats going to happen and if i may is a it wouldnt be a bad thing to me. Increasing voter turnout in 2014, can people like these elected officials here this afternoon use these issues to spur hispanic voter turnout . I think we have a lot of work to do. Number one we know education is a big issue right now. Because of the of the issues one were fighting right now. They dont teach civics in school anymore. So young people dont know why they should be voting in the first place. We wonder why they arent voting and its because they dont understand the importance of voting. We have to be invited to vote. If somebody doesnt invite you, you are not going to vote. I would is a to the Public Officials here we have a lot of power in this room. I was talking about how many young latinos are are going to be turning 18. We should have Voter Registration at every single high school. That should happen and we need to give kids credit to go out there and knock on doors to get out the vote. That was my experience. And latino leadership is knocking on doors. Thats when i came to the home of a family and saw the poverty they were living in. I think going door to door and giving kids School Credit to go out there. They can go into any neighborhood but knock on doors to remind people they have to vote. We have to make democracy work. We cannot have a democracy when we have over 50 of the people not voting. And these local elections are important, these School Board Elections are important. We want our kids to know the contribution of people of color, of the chinese. When we were at an election there and he said were at the Governors Mansion in virginia. This is the oldest Governors Mansion in the United States and it was built by thomas jefferson. I said no, it was built by his slaves. And this is the history that our kids have to know. All of the contributions of color made to this country and they dont know that. We can do it. We have the power right here in this room we can instill some of these practices to make sure people vote. Im a republican as you know and imet proud to be a republican for many reasons. Weve had some great Republican Leaders from the Hispanic Community. George bush was popular with the Hispanic Community. He was the right messenger quite frankly. Not that hispanics believed in all the policies but they believed he believed in them and understood thefment part of that is from being a governor of a border stafmente it hurts the Hispanic Community to have one so dominant party the other party is meaningless. You need to have two competing parties that dont take the Hispanic Community for granted. They ought to be competing for our vote. Its very important. Good point. But part of that and i want to conclude on this message on this question is about turnout because we want to see more people participating in the democratic process, the essential element of that is the vote. But when you look at it, lets go back to the last president ial election, 2012, 66 africanamerican turnout. 64 White American turnout. When you come to the Hispanic Community, 48 . We can do this with midterm elections as well. Why is it that you see in the mind set of the Latino Community a lack of this enthusiastic for voting that you see in other communities . I think and ive done this for the last 60 something years going door to door getting people to vote. A lot of times people dont know how to vote or are afraid they will do the wrong thing. They get these long ballots of names they dont know. Is a vote for you what you know. They dont get proper information about who to vote for and they dont want to do the wrong thing so they dont vote. Its important we have to go educate people how to vote. If they vote one time, they will continue to vote. And we can do this work but it takeses a lot of leg work. You are not going to do it on. You have to go into the neighborhoods. This is what my organization does is go door to door. In my community we have been able to activate over 10,000 voters just in our area. If we had more money we could go out into more communities. People vote once they understand procedure and process. They dont want to do the wrong thing and thats why they dont vote. They have to be invited to vote. Do you think if republicans day better job of speaking to common interest with the Latino Community you could inspire more latinos to vote . Absolutely. And i think the party gets that and they are working very hard to address it. But its a dual responsibility. I think citizens have a responsibility to care about these kind of things and come out and vote and get educated about what is required. Its also a responsibility of the candidates. They should be inspiring. Reaching out to the Hispanic Community there. Is a responsibility both with the electorate and the candidates running for office. 48 hat do you attribute the hispanic turnout to in 2012 . Why is that the lowest when you look at the racial groups in the country . I agree with the other panelists and a lot of people have to ask themselves what is in it for me and they dont understand what is in it for them. You have to do more for them. We put on Community Forums and let them know what the issues are and candidates there will be more interest. And the other problem is people still believe their vote doesnt count or they vote for a certain proposition and they get mad hen its overturned. I think its keeping people more infered and once they are more nfered they become more involved. They were going door to door and people didnt want to vote. They lost their homes. They lost their jobs. Some of their friends were deported so we had to pull them out and is a its important for you to vote. We did get them out to vote. But it was pulling teeth to get people out to vote. So proposition 30 in california, the reason we are now in the state of california because we passed proposition 30. We passed a law that millionaires have to pay 3 more n state taxes. So we were able to bring in over 6 billion into the state of california. Most of that went to education. How did we get that . Go door to the door to get people to vote for that. And the people we went to to get at margin of victory it were voters that dont always vote. The immigrants who have just recently become citizens and people who didnt vote before. It can happen but it takes an awful lot of work to make it appen. On the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act. I want to thank our panelists for helping us understand our role in a continuing effort to make democracy alive in america. Coming up in a few moments, a look at todays headlines on washington journal. Then we will have our newsmakers interview. After that, several segments from last weeks African Leaders summit in washington, d. C. Including a Panel Moderated by former president bill clinton. And president obamas closing comments. Coming up in 45 minutes, the latest developments in iraq and gaza with mark and spurred, ceo mark ginsberg. A. M. , a conversation publicniele brian on confidence in the socalled Good Government bills enacted by congress after watergate. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. President obama announcing yesterday that military operations interact could last for months. Calling for a rack to create a Coalition Government calling for iraq to create a new Coalition Government. In a new nbc news wall street journal poll out