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A former Democrat who worked for a teachers’ union has said the party “has chosen the unions over parents” and is now planning on voting Republican.
In an op-ed piece for Fox News, Valeria Gurr, a first-generation Chilean-American, has detailed her frustrations with the Democratic Party and the reasons why she’s left citing education as her priority.
“There’s a growing trend in America catching the attention of astute political observers and candidates alike: Hispanic voters are leaving the Democratic Party in droves. It’s a voting bloc many Democrats have relied on to win elections, so why is this change happening? There are no doubt many reasons, but it’s clear that education is among the topmotives,” Gurr wrote.
Gurr complained that many Democrats maintain that immigration is the only issue that the Hispanic-American voting bloc is concerned with when that is clearly not the case. She says that a “fair chance at a decent living” supersedes a whole host of other issues. more