Posted on 10/19/2006 6:36:42 PM PDT by World_Events
10-19) 18:14 PDT Garden Grove, Calif. (AP) --
Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate who has acknowledged that his campaign sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters.
County Republican Chairman Scott Baugh told The Associated Press that the party's executive committee voted unanimously to ask candidate Tan D. Nguyen to pull out.
Nguyen's attorney said Thursday night his client has no intention of quitting. Earlier Thursday, Nguyen told The Associated Press he has fired a campaign staffer who may have been the source of the letter that falsely told Hispanics immigrants can go to jail if they try to vote.
"I did not do this. I did not approve of any letter," said Nguyen, the challenger to Democratic U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez. Nguyen is a Vietnamese immigrant whose opposition to illegal immigration figures heavily in his underdog campaign.
State and federal officials are investigating the mailing for possible violations of election law.
Baugh said that after speaking with the state attorney general's office and the private company that distributed the mailer, he believes Nguyen had direct knowledge of the letter.
The letter was written in Spanish and mailed to an estimated 14,000 Democratic voters in central Orange County. It warns, "You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time."
Immigrants who are adult naturalized citizens are eligible to vote.
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Our side pressures our own scumbags to withdraw. The other side would have made him the next DNC chairman after Dean is commited to the booby-hatch.
Screw the RNC and the OCRC--Full speed ahead, Mr. Nguyen!
Sanchez got elected by Illegal Aliens. Sending a letter that a Spanish speaker MIGHT be arrested [Oh, MY G-D--for a CRIME--That is Fraud, isn't it?] pakes in comparison.
Our side has not yet learned to fight for what they want.
Sounds like it's that gang of bigoted RINOs who ought to resign.
"Immigrants who are adult naturalized citizens are eligible to vote."
The US Government does not consider naturalized citizens as immigrants, they consider them citizens. Immigrants, therefore, are not citizens and therefore can't vote. The letter was correct. The Republicans of OC are acting like frightened children. Not many voters want to be led by frightened children.
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=129236,00.html
Couldn't be simpler.
Don't be too quick to diss the party:
http://primary2004.ss.ca.gov/Returns/sff/usrep/4600.htm
Hey, the Republican candidate is now getting much more attention than what he was originally getting. Even negative attention is more than no attention at all. If he decides to stay in this race to the end, then he may still end up receiving more votes than before this was brought to everyone's attention because this news also reminds people of how Rep. Sanchez ended up winning the seat over Bob Dornan a few years back with some votes by some illegal immigrants.
Then the US Government is a ass.
im·mi·grantFunction: noun
a : a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
This story is unbelievable, because obviously the letter was correct, it said that those who live here illegally, it was also a crime to vote, and also explained the deporting that might happen if crimes are committed by illegal immigrants.
The confusion was in the translation because it mixed the words immigrants with the phrase of those living here illegally.
The semantics calling illegal immigrants not illegal and simply immigrants has resulted in the calls for an investigation into a crime that never happened.
The fact that the republican party, and the press are calling these letters misguided simply because the word immigrants was used in the same sentence as “those living here illegally” and reading to mean that this letter was targeted to legal immigrants, arises from insanity .
Tad should have had the gnads to say that, indeed, he did warn illegals not to vote.
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