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Press Release
LULAC Calls Upon the Senate to Confirm Alberto
Gonzales as U.S. Attorney General
LULAC asks members to set aside partisanship and focus on
Gonzales’ qualifications
February 3, 2005
Washington, DC
– The League of United Latin American
Citizens (LULAC) calls for Senate members to
confirm White House Counsel Al Gonzales during
today’s vote.
“The LULAC board
reaffirms its enthusiastic support of the
nomination of Alberto Gonzales to serve as
Attorney General and is calling upon the Senate
to confirm him as the nation’s first Latino to
head the U.S. Department of Justice,” said LULAC
National President Hector Flores. “Now is the
time to set aside politics and focus on
Gonzales’ tremendous qualifications for this
position,” added Flores.
The League of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC) is the oldest and largest Latino civil
rights organization in the United States. LULAC
advances the economic condition, educational
attainment, political influence, health, and
civil rights of Hispanic Americans through
community-based programs run by more than 700
LULAC councils nationwide.
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