Posted on 10/22/2006 9:19:37 PM PDT by freedomdefender
In a press conference Sunday, Republican 47th District congressional candidate Tan Nguyen said he will not abandon his bid for a seat in Congress.
Agents raided Nguyen's campaign offices last week in connection with a probe into a letter sent to Hispanic voters claiming it is illegal for immigrants to vote.
Nguyen said he has done nothing illegal and did not send the letter.
A criminal investigation is under way, NBC4 reported.
An Orange County Republican party official called on Nguyen Thursday to withdraw from his race against Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Garden Grove, because of the letter.
Since when does legal immigrant = legal US citizen with the legal right to vote?
Make sure you differentiate from legal and illegal immigrants. An immigrant, if legal, is entitled to vote if naturalized. Illegal immigrants are not entitled to vote.
You are correct. Legal immigrants include those with permanent residency (popularly known as green-card holders), as well as work visa H1-B holders. Only immigrants that are naturalized citizens are entitled to vote.
You bet.
Legal naturalized immigrants have the right to vote. Legal permanent residents and others do not.
bookmark #32
Some immigrants are allowed to vote.
Some immigrants are allowed to vote.
Hopefully NBC is confused. The Secretary of State issued a statement Thursday, saying he would mail out letters reiterating the law. I posted something here, with links to the source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723642/posts?page=41#41
O.C. will consider trying to correct Nguyen mailer
Supervisors on Tuesday will take up the question of approving a letter to remedy misstatements.
By Mai Tran, Times Staff Writer
October 22, 2006
The Orange County Board of Supervisors will determine Tuesday whether county officials should send letters to 14,000 voters in response to a racially charged mailer distributed by congressional candidate Tan Nguyen, authorities said.
County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley had planned to appear Thursday with Secretary of State Bruce McPherson to announce that the letters would be sent to correct misstatements in Nguyen's mailer.
However, Kelley pulled out of the news conference after several supervisors argued that his office should not get involved, Supervisor Bill Campbell said Saturday.
"The board was in favor that the registrar of voters did not have an obligation and should not get into correcting political mail," Campbell said.
"People make extravagant claims, and the role of the registrar is not of enforcement. The secretary of state has the enforcement role; our role is to run elections as even-handed as possible and to count them as accurately as possible."
Thanks for the update!
Back-translations of translations rarely, if ever, match the original. Unfortunately for Tan Nguyen, the stupid politicians are grandstanding based on the changed words of the back-translation of the translation.
Maybe because he doesn't want Democrats to accuse him of using his office to help his reelection?
If they must send a letter, I hope they use English, since people evidently have trouble with the Spanish translations. Election laws are written in English only, and the law is not too different from the content of the Spanish letter regarding elegibility to vote.
It'll be interesting if it is in English to have it translated then back-translated and see how it changes the wording.
Generally, but not completely, correct. In some municipalities, resident aliens are allowed to vote in local elections. As far as I know, your statement is true as to federal and state elections. And, of course, the story here deals with such an election.
The letter never mentioned the word immigrant or implied immigration.
Border vernacular has a term but its pronunciation is an uneducated hybrid, TexMex, compounded by the difficulty for the English listener because the sound of the letter i in Spanish approaches an e in English. To a gringo, EEN-ME-GRAHDO sounds like M-ME-GRAHDO sounds like EEM-ME-GRAHDO.
Even in the US, a majority of the population does not know the difference between emigration and immigration. Expecting an even less educated population to know the difference between emigrado , used in the letter, and inmigrado, which the US press conveniently used as the translation, is unrealistic.
The problem appears to have arisen because a scholarly translator was employed instead of a street kid.
Braniff also told the press that the translator stood by their translation and use of "emigrado" for one who is NOT legal. He also said the translator's name had been given to state investigators.
So far, we have:
• Unnamed person who wrote the english version of the letter (connected to the campaign, but not the office manager)
• The unnamed office manager who gave the address database to the mailing house that was used to distribute the letters (Fired, but now asked to rejoin campaign)
• An unnamed LAPD officer who paid the mailing house for sending the letters (using an alias).
Never a dull moment!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.