{"id":5870,"date":"2016-01-16T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2016-01-18T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T22:57:06","slug":"anti-english-galeo-joins-other-activist-groups-to-push-for-foreign-language-ballots-theaters-lawsuit-where-its-obama-nominated-former-board-member-would-serve-as-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/anti-english-galeo-joins-other-activist-groups-to-push-for-foreign-language-ballots-theaters-lawsuit-where-its-obama-nominated-former-board-member-would-serve-as-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-English GALEO joins other activist groups to push for foreign language ballots – threatens lawsuit in same federal court its Obama-nominated former board member would serve as judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Led by the corporate-funded GALEO, activist, anti-English groups in Georgia are threatening a federal lawsuit against at least two Georgia counties if November ballots are not printed in a foreign language.<\/p>\n

GALEO has been active in pushing for Spanish language ballots for at least two years\u00a0<\/a>and lobbies in the Georgia Capito<\/a>l against English as Georgia\u2019s official language. A 1996 law designates English as the state\u2019s official language, but many government services are still provided in multiple foreign languages. The written exam for a Georgia drivers license is offered in eleven languages.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo county in Georgia offers ballots or voting materials in a language other than English. But the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) and New York-based Latino Justice have asked Gwinnett and Hall counties to provide Spanish ballots, voter guides, poll workers and website information, citing a provision of the federal Voting Rights Act\u201d reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A recently resigned GALEO board member and one-time treasurer and fund-raiser, Dax Lopez,\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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has been nominated for a federal judgeship in Georgia. Neither of Georgia\u2019s Republican senators have announced their decision on allowing the nomination to move forward.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta NPR affiliate, WABE News reports<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe organization’s (GALEO) executive director, Jerry Gonzalez, has written to Gwinnett and Hall counties, both with large Spanish-speaking communities, asking that bilingual voting materials be provided.<\/p>\n

“We have had to provide, at our own expense, language access to voters. However, it is the county’s responsibility to do that,” Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n

His organization is pointing to a provision in the Voting Rights Act that guarantees bilingual voting materials for Puerto Ricans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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GALEO executive director, “Angry Jerry” Gonzalez<\/p><\/div>\n

The AJC also reports that GALEO\u2019s executive director has threatened a lawsuit if Hall and Gwinnett counties do not cede to the demands.<\/p>\n

If GALEO and other groups pushing for foreign language ballots were to file a lawsuit against the Georgia county governments the case would go to the Northern District federal court where GALEO\u2019s former board member Lopez has been nominated to serve as judge.<\/a><\/p>\n

We cannot find Georgia media reports of this potential conflict.<\/p>\n

Breitbart<\/a> is covering the on the Lopez nomination controversy in Georgia\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Led by the corporate-funded GALEO, activist, anti-English groups in Georgia are threatening a federal lawsuit against at least two Georgia counties if November ballots are not printed in a foreign language. GALEO has been active in pushing for Spanish language ballots for at least two years\u00a0and lobbies in the Georgia Capitol against English as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}