Ay, Macarena!: Latino Groups Attempt To Organize Inaugural Ball, Barack Obama’s All Like, “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You.”

Brent Wilkes, national president of League of United Latin American Citizens, is hoping to organize a Latino inaugural ball this January as an effort to: 1)thank Barack Obama for appointing Bill Richardson as Commerce Secretary, 2) encourage him to appoint more Latinos to prominent positions and 3) remind him that he OWES HIS PRESIDENCY TO US. Or something.

While there are a number of balls following the inauguration, the inaugural committee puts together between six and eight “official” balls attended by the President and his wife. Or, eventually, the President and her pet pug.

Brent Wilkes, however, seems to be getting nothing but the brush off from Obama’s inaugural committee regarding his request to put together a Latino ball, and does not appreciate the fact that they’re wasting his time:

“Our groups have offered to put together a gala for the inauguration, but then we were told there might be a possibility that we could be an official gala. And so we’re waiting to hear whether that’s going to happen.”

“We’re kind of in a holding pattern right now,” Wilkes said. “And all this time of course we’re losing the opportunity to put together a really quality event.”

While we, personally, don’t really think Barack Obama owes anyone anything, we do think it’d be a smart move, politically, for his committee to select at least one prominent Latino group to hose an official ball this January.

Which is why we’re proud to announce Guanabee’s Official Request To Host An Inaugural Ball. We’ll host it in our Queens apartment and serve tequila shots for Cindy and Ana, chinchilla shakes for Camilla, Cuba Libres for ourself and plenty of Guanabee Horchatas for all our guests.

A Latino inaugural ball? [Politico]