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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (25126)	1/22/2008 2:29:40 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

I think he should be consistent. Do you think he supports bilingual ballots so as not to disenfranchise any hispanic citizen with voting rights that doesn't have total command of the english language? That, not the language of political ads, is where real disenfranchisement would occur. Fortunately, in its wisdom, Congress recently reauthorized, and the president signed, an extension of the Voting Rights Act, including the minority language provisions of that law.

To: Geoff Altman who wrote (25126)	1/22/2008 2:32:35 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

"SPRINGFIELD, Va., Dec. 27 — English First Political Victory Fund today endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for President of the United States. “Mitt Romney has been a veritable Rock of Gibraltar on official English,” said Jim Boulet, Jr., Executive Director of English First Political Victory Fund. “In 1971, Massachusetts became the first state to make bilingual education mandatory. Yet when Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he courageously endorsed a referendum calling for repeal of that failed policy. Both Romney and the children of Massachusetts won that year,” Boulet said. A former Massachusetts bilingual education teacher, Dr. Rosalie Porter, said at the time, “the cities with the heaviest enrollments of Latino children, the families that have had experience with bilingual programs, voted FOR the initiative — Boston, Holyoke, Springfield, Lawrence, Lowell.” scforromney.com