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White House comes to Tampa for Hispanic outreach

Posted Feb 1, 2012 by William March

Updated Feb 2, 2012 at 12:11 PM

President Barack Obama’s attempts to connect with Hispanic voters, who were partly responsible for his election in 2008, will come to Tampa Friday.

The White House will hold an Hispanic Community Action Summit at the University of Tampa, including “senior administration officials,” to discuss issues with Hispanic community leaders, according to an invitation for the event.

It says the event, from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. at the University of Tampa’s Vaughn Center, is free and open to the public.

It will include business and community leaders to discuss issues important to the Hispanic community—“an innovative open space dialogue where participants work together to define the agenda and shape outcomes.”

Obama won Hispanic voters by a large margin in 2008 but has since lost ground among them, largely because of the poor economy.

The event is part of a series of such meetings in The Administration will hold Hispanic community action summits in Phoenix, Tucson, Elyria, Ohio; and San Antonio in the coming weeks.

Attendees will include Frank Sanchez of Tampa, undersecretary of commerce for international trade.