{"id":43464,"date":"2015-11-12T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/dominicanos-usa-registers-over-100000-voters\/"},"modified":"2015-11-12T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:00:05","slug":"dominicanos-usa-registra-a-mas-de-100000-votantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/dominicanos-usa-registra-a-mas-de-100000-votantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicanos USA registers over 100,000 voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 12, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0In a triumph for the Dominican-American community, Dominicanos <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> (DUSA) blew past its goal and announced it had registered more than 100,000 Dominican-Americans in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Rhode Island<\/span> in their first year of voter registration efforts as part of their &#8220;Road to 100k&#8221; campaign. &#8220;It puts our community on the political map in a huge way, it&#8217;s a home run,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Natalia Rosa<\/span>, DUSA Rhode Island State Director. &#8220;This is a remarkable milestone for Dominicanos <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span>,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-location\">Rhode Island<\/span> Secretary of State <span class=\"xn-person\">Nellie Gorbea<\/span>. &#8220;I applaud their efforts to engage more Rhode Islanders in the civic process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Onida Coward Mayers<\/span>, Director of Voter Assistance at the NYC Campaign Finance Board and supporter of DUSA&#8217;s efforts, echoed sentiments saying &#8220;this community-driven, cutting-edge campaign to mobilize citizens serves as a model to empower all underrepresented groups throughout our country to register and vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This news caps DUSA&#8217;s successful inaugural year as the nation&#8217;s first and only voter registration, mobilization, and education organization geared towards Dominican-American voters. &#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled with this momentous achievement on behalf of the Dominican-American community and all our community partners who helped make this a reality. A special thank you to all of you&#8221; remarked <span class=\"xn-person\">Eddie Cuesta<\/span>, DUSA&#8217;s <span class=\"xn-location\">New York State<\/span> Director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DUSA is answering this call to elevate the voice of Dominicans and we recognize that the work does not end with voter registration alone. We look forward to helping Dominican-Americans become the architects of their own futures and that of their families in this great country,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Manuel Matos<\/span>, attorney, community leader, and DUSA board member who serves as the group&#8217;s spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s incredible, the success of what Dominicanos <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> has done as a leader in the Latino community in such a short time, utilizing the first ever Dominican voter model,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Manuel Matos<\/span>, attorney, community leader, and DUSA board member who serves as the group&#8217;s spokesperson. &#8220;DUSA is answering this call to elevate the voice of Dominicans and we recognize that the work does not end with voter registration alone. We look forward to helping Dominican-Americans become the architects of their own futures and that of their families in this great country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dominicanosusa.org\/dominicanos-usa-registers-over-100000-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">About Dominicanos USA:<\/a> Dominicanos <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> is a 501C-3 non-profit and nonpartisan organization that seeks to empower, educate and mobilize Dominican American voters. We are the first ever Dominican-American Voter model to yield more than 75,000 registered voters in America. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 12, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0In a triumph for the Dominican-American community, Dominicanos <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> (DUSA) blew past its goal and announced it had registered more than 100,000 Dominican-Americans in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Rhode Island<\/span> in their first year of voter registration efforts as part of their &#8220;Road to 100k&#8221; campaign. &#8220;It puts our community on the political map in a huge way, it&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}