Apparently, if you’re Hispanic and live in Pennsylvania, a job is yours for the asking.
I say this because the Republican governor of that state, Tom Corbett, recently that he couldn’t find a single Latino to work for him.
He even implored his constituents that “If you can find us one, please let me know.” He then got, well, a little defensive about his lack of ethnic outreach, snapping, “Do any of you [Hispanics] want to come to Harrisburg? See?”
Now there are about 800,000 Latinos in Pennsylvania, which is just under seven percent of the state’s population. Surely, there must be a few who could handle working with a cranky Republican.
Sure enough, after Corbett looked a little harder, he finally “remembered the one Latino in his administration.”
Well, that’s a relief. At least Hispanics aren’t totally shut out in one of our largest states. After all, there’s one Latina helping to run the place.
Still, if affirmative action were all that, one would think people of a brownish hue could just march right up to governor and say, “Here I am. Put me on the state payroll.”
I have my doubts about that. But who knows, maybe you should give it a shot. Talk about an easy interview.
