Whitman, in Spanish, touts opposition to Arizona law (with video)

politico.com ^ | June 17, 2010 | Ben Smith

[Free ThinkerNY]

Meg Whitman, pivoting away from a primary that drove her much father to the right than she would have liked, will remind Hispanic Californians that she opposed Arizona's controversial immigration law in an ad slated to run on the Spanish-language broadcast of today's Mexico-France World Cup game.

"She respects our community," says the ad's narrator, according to a Spanish text provided to La Opinion's Pilar Marrero. "She's the Republican who opposed the Arizona law and opposed Proposition 187," say the ad, referring to the 1994 initiative -- later ruled unconstitutional -- to bar illegal immigrants from receiving public health care and education.

The ad marks a dramatic tack a way from a primary in which Whitman was at times visibly uncomfortable with her campaign's hard line, denying at one point -- mistakenly -- that her campaign was airing ads with images of a boarder fence.

Whitman is trying to undo damage done to the Republican Party among Hispanics that began in earnest with the fierce opposition to a broad immigration overhaul -- and the naturalization of many illegal immigrants -- that began in the middle of the last decade.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

William Buckley’s son voted for 0b0z0 also. And Peggy Noonan seemed to have a positive vibe toward him, from what I hear. I’m sure that there’s a lot of “voter’s remorse” going around right now.

[pollywog]

I thought I heard her in the debates say she was FOR the AZ law? Forget voting for her then!!! I cannot handle another four years of Arnold. Best just let the Dems have it!!!!!!!!! what a shame!

[Carry_Okie]

Ahnold has been terrible but I don’t remember rolling blackouts or buying massive amounts of power on the open market as part of a scam like Blackout Davis.

The same people as owned Bray Davis wrote Arnold's Environmental Plan.

A true conservative WILL NOT win in California. There are just not enough people in the conservative inland counties.

McClintock significantly out-polled Bustamante one on one.