WASHINGTON INSIGHT
STARTING EARLY: With an eye firmly set on the 1994 and 1996 elections, the Democratic National Committee is not waiting to mobilize California’s growing Latino population. Sam Rodriguez, the committee’s national director for Hispanic affairs, has set up meetings with Latino officeholders and activists in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento beginning March 31. Rodriguez, who managed Anita Perez Ferguson’s unsuccessful 1992 congressional campaign in Ventura County, will be seeking to increase voter registration and participation as well as fund-raising among Latino Democrats. Particularly important are the state’s gubernatorial campaign and Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s reelection effort in 1994. “We don’t want to wait until three months after the primary’s over” to get moving, Rodriguez said.
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