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Title: 20-year-old selected as alternate delegate to RNC (dryfoot Cuban MitTard invader)
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Florida Today
URL Source: http://www.floridatoday.com/article ... elected-alternate-delegate-RNC
Published: Aug 27, 2012
Author: Paul Flemming
Post Date: 2012-08-27 19:46:17 by Hondo68
Keywords: Cuba as a 3-year-old, run for public office, on a makeshift boat
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TAMPA -- Alejandro Capote became a U.S. citizen on April 28, 2011. Ten months later he was selected as an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. That transition may be less remarkable than the journey that prompted it, the Florida State University junior’s 1998 escape from Castro’s Cuba as a 6-year-old. The then-3-year-old and his mother followed, more conventionally, his father. Capote’s father fled Castro’s Communist regime on a makeshift boat, was detained, sent to Guantanamo, then brought to the U.S., Capote said. His background drives him now, and also drives him to activism within the Republican Party. He’s an advocate for American exceptionalism, the idea that the United States is a better country than any other. His political hero is Ronald Reagan, who spoke of America as a shining city on a hill, an example to other nations. “It has been quite the experience becoming a citizen and then a short time later a delegate to the Republican convention,” Capote said. Jeff Howell, a Tallahassee attorney, treasurer for the Republican Party of Florida and an at-large delegate to the convention, said Capote is tireless, volunteering for Big Bend Republican candidates, serving as a precinct committeeman on the Leon Republican Executive Committee, traveling to surrounding counties to speak as an invited guest to GOP groups and is active in FSU’s College Republicans. “I was very active in College Republicans when I was at FSU and I never got elected an alternate delegate to a Republican convention,” Howell said of the aggressive campaign Capote waged to become a convention delegate. Capote put on a serious campaign, providing caucus members with printed literature, for the February election of delegates in Monticello. “I had a dream about it. I knew I had to run,” Capote said. Capote’s about more than dreams, though. “You can’t name a local campaign for Republicans that he hasn’t worked for,” Howell said. While he’s talking, he’s also persuading. “Some Republicans in the Panhandle believe we in the Republican Party have to come really hard on immigration. I believe we don’t have to. We are the party that believes in legal immigration. Capote, in his junior year at Miami Lakes Educational Center, ran in a six-candidate race to become student government president. “I talked to students. I listened to them, something a lot of politicians don’t do,” Capote said. He won. And he’ll certainly run for public office. “There is a need for younger people to be involved in the party,” the 20-year-old Capote said.
Poster Comment: Any Cuban whose inner-tube lands in Tampa, could become a Romney delegate. The storm is blowing in more Mittens delegates.
Alejandro Capote / Florida Capital Bureau
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