http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/10/members_within_hispanic.php
"Christine Quinn is going to lose the Hispanic vote because we're going to make sure of that," Frank Garcia, chairman of the New York State Coalition of Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, tells the Voice. "We don't feel that [she] takes the Hispanic vote very seriously right now."
Garcia and other Hispanic business leaders are upset over proposed revisions to the 2005 Local Law 129. The City Council Committee on Contracts held a hearing on the revisions yesterday -- at which Deputy Mayor of Operations Cas Halloway announced that the city's current goal to contract with Hispanic-owned construction companies would decrease from 9.06 percent to 4 percent under the new bill.
The law, which established the Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise, sets contracting goals for African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American and Caucasian female business owners in the areas of construction, goods, professional and standardized services. The M/WBE program was established to address disparities in the number of women and minorities contracted to do work for city agencies, but it has failed to achieve that goal."
