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Jeb Bush may be the Republican Partys solution to its deficit among Hispanic voters. But first Bush, who speaks Spanish, is married to a Mexican-American woman and has called illegal immigration an act of love, would have to survive the GOP primary.

How Bush runs as a compassionate and pragmatic-minded ally of the Hispanic community while convincing his partys vocal conservative base that comprehensive immigration reform is a worthy cause will be a central challenge of his increasingly likely campaign for the White House.

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After the 2012 election, which saw GOP nominee Mitt Romney receive just 27 percent of the fast-growing Hispanic vote, top Republicans worried their party could be locked out of the White House for a generation if it didnt improve its standing among minorities. In the previous presidential election, George W. Bush, a former Texas governor, picked up over 40 percent of the Hispanic vote.

Those close to Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor who announced Tuesday that hes actively exploring a presidential run, believe that, like his brother, hed tap into a deep vein of potential Hispanic support in a way few other would-be Republican 2016 hopefuls can. Bush received a majority of that communitys vote in his 1998 and 2002 campaigns for Floridas highest post.

I think Jeb would be a game-changer with Hispanics, said Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist in Florida and a Bush ally. You see, Jeb is not only completely bilingual, he is bi-cultural He has both the cultural sensitivity and a strong lifelong record on issues affecting Hispanics.

In an interview with a Florida TV station Tuesday, Bush expressed confidence that his stance on immigration wouldnt cost him.

You gotta protect the borders, enforce the law, be respectful of the rule of law, and at the same time, be able to encourage young, aspirational people to come to our country. Its a win-win, Bush said. I have no problems advancing that idea.

At a time when many in the GOP including some of Bushs potential primary rivals have adopted a harsh tone in addressing illegal immigration, many in the party regard Bush as a quiet voice who has succeeded in not offending Hispanics.

The tone that he uses, the way he conducts himself, helps him get his point across, said Republican Luis Fortuno, a former Puerto Rico governor. Its a trait he has an ability to put himself in the shoes of his audience.

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The First Amendment doesnt stop companies from cracking down on their employees speech. So your boss can ban you from using work e-mail to share funny cat gifs, or organize a bake sale, or mourn the passing of your favorite celebrity. But now your boss cant ban you from using work e-mail to organize a union.

In a party-line 3-2 decision (pdf), the National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday that employees who use company e-mail to do their jobs can also use it to organize to improve them. That includes trying to form a union as well as other forms of collective action at work. Under the new ruling, companies can still impose some restrictions on the kind of e-mails they allow on their servers (such as no gigantic attachments), and they can still keep tabs on their employees e-mail activities, though they cant single out union activism for scrutiny. But outside of rare exceptions, companies cant prohibit e-mailing your co-workers to try to transform your workplace.

That new decision overturns a precedent from just seven years ago, when Republicans who then had a majority on the labor board wrote (pdf) that it would be kosher to allow e-mail solicitations for the Salvation Army but not for a labor union. The consequences of that error are too serious to permit it to stand, the three Democrats who now hold a majority on the NLRB wrote. Neither the fact that e-mail exists in a virtual (rather than physical) space, nor the fact that it allows conversations to multiply and spread more quickly than face-to-face communication, reduces its centrality to employees discussions, including their [National Labor Relations Act] Section 7-protected discussions about terms and conditions of employment, they argued. If anything, e-mails effectiveness as a mechanism for quickly sharing information and views increases its importance to employee communication.

In siding with employees yesterday, the NLRB rebuffed arguments that allowing pro-union e-mails would increase the risk of computer viruses; that employees dont need to organize over work e-mail because they have Facebook (FB) and Twitter (TWTR); and that forcing companies to let their Internet servers be used to spread pro-union messages they disagree with would violate employers First Amendment rights. E-mail users typically understand that an e-mail message conveys the view of the sender, the majority wrote, not those of the e-mail account provider.

The NLRBs new approach to organizing over work e-mail accounts echoes a series of decisions in recent years that protect workers right to use Facebook and Twitter to talk about how to improve their jobs. For most other speech, companies have free rein to punish their employees for what they say online, even if they do it on their day off. Chatter about banding together and organizing is one of the only things companies are legally prevented from silencingeven if its something they would most like to choke off.

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