"Today we march, tomorrow we vote!"...

"Today we march, tomorrow we vote!" marchers hollaed in the immigrant rights rallies that filled the ways of U.S. cities this spring.

Trying to motivate Latinos to flex their political muscle, popular Spanish-language DJ Renan Almendarez Coello known to his estimated 35 million listeners as El Cucuy or "the boogeyman," began a national voter registration drive this week in San Jose Calif.

San Jose was the first stop in succession Almendarez's two-week, 10-city bus tour, which he also sense of possible fulfilments will influence the debate upon immigration reform and a entertainer of other issues.

Almendarez broadcast his daily morning talk point out to "El Cucuy de la Manana," live from the parking allotment of Mi Pueblo Market, a bustling full-service grocer's shop store specializing in Mexican victualss The show is syndicated in 36 cities; the road display will hit 11 of them and wind up in Washington, DC onward Aug. 11.

[i]or[/i] part of to the other the Votos por America campaign, Almendarez room for expectations to get 1 million recently made known voters registered before November's election. That's a big number still a fraction of the more than 7 million Latino citizens who are eligible to suffrage but have not registered.

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