Coalition Launches Historic Latino Voter Mobilization Campaign

Leaders of the nation’s largest and most established Latino organizations and Spanish-language media companies Wednesday launched Ya es Hora, ¡Ve y Vota! (It’s Time, Go Vote!), an unprecedented multi-media effort to significantly increase Latino voter registration and turnout in the 2008 presidential elections.

"The growth of the Latino electorate, coupled with the community’s ever-increasing political will, sets the stage for Latinos to deliver a powerful punch at the polls next year," said SEIU Officer and Mi Familia Vota Educational Fund (coalition partner) Treasurer Eliseo Medina. "Given the increasingly narrow margins for victory, especially in states in the southwest, Latino voters will play a particularly decisive role in shaping our political future."

Visit VeYVota.org for more on this non-partisan campaign, and read San Francisco Chronicle coverage.