Republicans celebrate Hispanic heritage, court Colorado’s crucial Latino vote

State Rep. Clarice Navarro, a Republican from Pueblo, celebrated National Hispanic Heritage Month with roughly 30 of her re-election campaign supporters at a happy-hour gathering at Lime in downtown Denver earlier this month, kicking off a conversation about ethnic policy and Republican outreach in swing-state Colorado, where the Latino population is now more than 21 percent.

“I’ll tell you, I remember my bootstrap moment,” Navarro told the smiling and nodding crowd of conservatives. “It was when I made the cheerleading squad in high school, and I was so happy, and I told my mom, my working, single mom, and she said, ‘Great but you’re going to have to buy your own uniform.’

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