CA: Atty. general says GOP campaign linked to intimidating letter

Actually, it seems the Republicans are going after the Republican. Read all of the updates. Still more facts to come out on this one. Here is another update from the LA Times:

Republican congressional candidate Tan Nguyen acknowledged today that an employee in his campaign was involved in sending out a letter intended to suppress Latino voter turnout in Orange County in next month's election, but said he had no knowledge of it and that the employee has been fired.
The disclosure came one day after the state attorney general's office began focusing on Nguyen's campaign as the source of the letter. At the same time, Republican officials today distanced themselves from Nguyen, with several calling for him to bow out of his underdog campaign to unseat Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Garden Grove.
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The office manager, whose name was not released, had been working for Nguyen since the campaign office was opened. Nguyen said she had access to the database of Democratic voters that he purchased to send out mailers to 73,000 households. He said he did not know who wrote the letter, which was in Spanish.
In an interview today, Orange County GOP Chairman Scott Baugh said representatives of the Huntington Beach mail house that produced the letter told him that Nguyen was directly involved with the letter, calling and asking that it be sent out as soon as possible.
Today, a host of Republicans called on Nguyen to drop out of the race. Baugh, who called the letter "reprehensible and stupid," said the party's executive committee voted unanimously to ask Nguyen to withdraw from the race.

Thanks for the link. I had read that he was tough on immigration, but I had not checked out the rest of his website. Yesterday I read that 2 years ago he was running as a Democrat so I was skeptical of him. On his website I found, among other things, that he has the support of Tom Fuentes who is acting as a Sr. advisor on his campaign. Fuentes, a longime respected conservative in Orange County was recentlly forced out of the party's leadership position. This story gets weirder and weirder.

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