The veto of a bill that would have legalized homemade tamale sales ignited a backlash among some Latinos, underscoring their political importance.
Rosalba Lopez learned how to make tamales growing up in a small town near Cuernavaca, Mexico.
"This is my way of getting ahead. A way to pay my bills," the 50-year-old grandmother said in Spanish. Buying homemade tamales has become so popular, it's now part of mainstream culture, especially around Christmastime. Latinos and non-Latinos alike buy homemade tamales, whether from the local"tamale lady," a relative, a friend at work or a random vendor in a parking lot.
"This is affecting women more than men because it's usually the women that participate in this kind of informal economy and especially in the cooking realm," Coronado said."And so it's very unfortunate that that has happened. But I can see how some people would say, 'This is a direct assault on my community. I'm going to stick by , and it doesn't matter what my party thinks.
Arizona, once a reliable red state, has turned into a swing state in part because of the rise of Latino voters. The increase in Latino voting power was the result of voter drives launched after Republicans pushed through a series of laws aimed at driving undocumented immigrants out of the state. The crackdown was capped by the 2010 passage of SB 1070, the state's immigration enforcement law, which many Latinos viewed as racist.
The bill would have benefitted people who produce a wide range of perishable foods, but Republicans chose to focus on tamale makers, Aguilar said. Supporters of the bill even showed up at a rally at the capitol on the morning of the override vote with"Free the Tamale" posters showing Americans for Prosperity and The Libre Initiative logos printed next to a cartoon of a green tamale behind bars, Aguilar noted.
Avelar, who is Latino, said he grew up eating tamales bought from neighborhood tamale ladies while growing up in Kearney, a town in rural southeastern Arizona. "A lot of people that we talked to, both Republicans and Democrats, they got that immediately, and that's the frame in which they got it," Avelar said.
Hartley said she used to sell homemade tamales in the parking lot of a 24-hour convenience store near 15th Avenue and Indian School Road in Phoenix.She now owns her own licensed catering business called Happy Tamales. Instead of at home, she now makes her tamales in a commercial kitchen. She recently made 200 tamales for a golf tournament sponsored by the Mexican government to raise money for student scholarships.
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