Rs want Hispanic vote, but don't vote for Hispanic interests

Republicans have gotten a lot of media mileage at campaign time about their efforts to reach out to minorities. In the presidential campaign, it was the Hispanic vote the Repubs were courting, with W even coming out with a Spanish sentence now and then.

But if Hispanics vote in their own interests, the Rs have a long ways to go.

The latest evidence of who Latinos' friends really are comes in a scorecard and report from the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a non-partisan coalition of 35 national Latino civil rights and policy organizations.

The ratings covered 18 votes in the last Congress on issues involving the workforce, economic mobility, civil rights, health and immigration.

Overall, Democrats averaged 95%, Republicans 34%.

In Wisconsin, all six Democrats in the delegation scored 100%. On the Republican side, Mark Green -- the guy who's running to be governor of all the people of Wisconsin -- was at the bottom of the heap with 17%, tied with F. Jim Sensenbrenner. Green's Fox Valley district has a growing Latino population, but apparently they are not on Green's radar screen.

Rep. Paul Ryan got 22% and Tom Petri led the Wisconsin Rs with 28%.