Posted on 09/26/2010 1:07:23 PM PDT by no dems
For 13 years, Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez has commanded a good chunk of her southern California district with a reliable and strong bloc of votes from a large Hispanic population.
Now things are getting tough. Locked in a tight re-election campaign against a Vietnamese-American Republican, Sanchez, who was born in California to Mexican parents, said in an interview with Univision TV earlier this month that the "Vietnamese and the Republicans" in her district were "trying to take away" her House seat after "we have done so much for our community."
Her remarks ignited the blogosphere and talk radio and angered residents of Santa Ana, which she represents and which has one of the country's oldest and largest Vietnamese communities. Conservative commentators joined the fray when her words were reported in the Orange County Register this week, and her opponent, a state assemblyman named Van Tran, lashed back, calling her remarks "offensive and wrong."
Poor Loretta, she was left with nothing to do but apologize. "I used a poor choice of words that some people have taken as offensive, I apologize for those remarks." But she didn't apologize for calling him "very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.''
"She directly attacked me, slandered me," Tran said on Friday, demanding an apology. A lawyer who with his family left Saigon shortly before South Vietnam fell to the communists in 1975, Tran accused her of going on "a racial rampage" on Spanish-language TV. She was plainly playing the race card, making a play for the Hispanic vote by pitting Latinos against the smaller Vietnamese community.
When she said that the Vietnamese and the GOP were trying to "take away this seat," she clearly meant "our seat." Was she saying that Hispanics own that seat?
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Well, she’s a liberal - an apology is all that is required. Nothing more to see here, move along.
That's not true. The U.S. NEVER lost a battle!
“But she didn’t apologize for calling him “very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.’’”
She thinks Tran is anti-immigrant? He’s from VietNam! Does she not know what the word “immigrant” means? yikes!
**Their cousins did kinda beat us once.
That’s not true. The U.S. NEVER lost a battle!**
The Vietnam war was lost by ... John Kerry, Hanoi Jane Fonda, and WALTER CRONKITE
Not in combat, not in warfare. North Vietnam did break the treaties and invade, and conquer the South, almost 2 years after we left.
That is where our Viets here came from.
Why would she apologize? She sounded sincere.
She didn’t mean it? /s
She’s a racist and she put her racism on tape. Now she’s sorry she has been caught in a racist diatribe.
It’s so typical of Dems - they say hateful things then go the all ‘sorry, apologize’ route and fluff their hair and go on as though words don’t mean anything .... like what’s your problem? “Said I was sorry” .....
I’m no polling expert but I would think it would be worth a few. Hopefully there is more coverage locally than there is nationally.
If it’s already been said I apologize. SHE’S A RACIST!
NO and nowhere
It was also a referral to Asians. I was going to add Filipinos but they are Obama Kool Aid drinkers..not all though. It’s neat having the pleasure to hear their politcs in a martial arts dojo.
Where I train near Long Beach is where Benny Urquidez holds his kickboxing studio (try Jackie Chan’s white guy nemesis in some of his films). Down on Wilshire, probably the only known Japanese kenpo, legit studio Ive taken part of. The only objective of Kenpo is to annihilate you and no more of this take-down grappling fag nonsense.
Many of our Vietnamese and Laotian allies paid a dear price for helping us in SE Asia. The fortunate few made it to the U.S. They have seen Communism up close and personal and will never sign on to that here. They are still good allies of "We the People".
That's what I was thinking...
Place your bets folks: the people who went up against the VC and the NVA, or....the criminals who crawled under the fences and ran to where the welfare was the easiest
This is gonna be funny, bring popcorn
No, but they outlasted our resolve and won the war.
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