FORT WORTH -- A new group co-founded by former President George W. Bush's nephew held its first fundraiser Friday night in downtown Fort Worth.
Hispanic Republicans of Texas hopes to improve the party's relationship with the fastest-growing minority in the state and get more conservative Hispanics on the ballot.
The group is garnering statewide attention for the pedigree of prominent Hispanic Republicans backing it, including George P. Bush, who moved back to Fort Worth last month after going to Austin in 2008.
Bush co-founded the organization last year with Juan Hernandez, a Fort Worth Republican who served in former Mexican President Vicente Fox's Cabinet and later in Arizona Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign. Another co-founder is George Antuna Jr., director of economic development in Schertz, near San Antonio, and a former regional director to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
"In a state where many of the schools are now majority Hispanic, we think it's very important to get the word out that the Republican Party eagerly opens its arms to Hispanics," Hernandez said this week.
The group plans to work with the state Republican Party in recruiting Hispanic candidates, Hernandez said. The group's leadership believes that more conservative Hispanics would run for office if they received encouragement and financial backing, he said.
"We hope to extend ourselves as much as we can and as far as the money will go," Hernandez said.
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