How much of the culture and life of Hispanics in Tampa Bay does the mainstream media miss?
They continue to miss the mark. They continue to miss that the Hispanic vote is going to be critical and pivotal in elections. Just this week I was trying to pitch mainstream newspapers on, look, pay attention to this Hispanic vote. Have you pulled the numbers [of registered Latino voters]? Have you done any polling? And I consistently get no, no and no. And they’re missing the boat on this vote. You recently sat in a room with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and about 40 Hispanic civic leaders. Tell me about that meeting. It was by far one of the most profound things I’ve done in my career. It was such a contentious primary, and it was very rare to see both of them kind of unplugged, in a room with her, it was 40 of her closest Hispanic advisors from across the country, many of whom … sat in a room a year and half prior to that rolling out a Hispanic strategy, watching Hispanic focus groups and really talking about how we were going to reach Hispanic voters and what’s the best mean
