Meet Felipe Gutierrez

Gutierrez with Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis

Felipe Gutierrez, legislative chair of CWA Local 6201, is reporting from the frontlines of the 2012 election. As the Texas-based community journalist for Voting Rights Watch 2012, a collaboration between The Nation and Colorlines.com, Gutierrez is the “eyes and ears on the ground in communities where voters are being threatened by intimidation, dubious purges, cut-offs to early voting, and voter ID schemes.”

In his first update today, Gutierrez writes about a national Latino leaders conference call on voter registration: 

The common response that the National Council of La Raza has received from Latinos is that they have never been approached to register. Voter participation hotline calls have jumped with voters wanting information on how to register. NCLR’s Clarissa Martinez-De-Castor mentioned it’s now time to move into the education face and get out the vote with these new registrants. More than 90,000 new applicants have come in from key states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, North Carolina, and Idaho.

Read updates from his fellow community journalists across the country here and be sure to follow this important project at www.colorlines.com.