The GOP's Voice in a Hispanic Nominee - New Mexico

Wash. Post (Excerpts) ^ | Sunday, June 23, 2002 | Dale Russakoff

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New Mexico -- The candidate is Hispanic. His name is John Sanchez, and when he won a three-way GOP primary for governor earlier this month, he became only the second Hispanic in modern times to head a Republican ticket (the first was Florida's Bob Martinez in 1986).

"People accuse me of being a token, the great brown hope of the Republican Party," laughed Sanchez, 39, a roofing contractor and freshman legislator who became an overnight GOP star in 2000 when he ousted the state's longtime Democratic House speaker in his home district. "But I didn't run as a Hispanic. I ran as an American, a good New Mexican who happened to be a good Republican who -- oh by the way, I happen to be Hispanic."

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Ashland, Missouri

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Sanchez is a fine candidate who will be opposed by Clintonite 'rat Bill Richardson, a carpetbagger to New Mexico, who seems to have screwed up everything he has been involved with. He presided over the Energy Department at the time of the Los Alamos security fiascos, at the UN he worked on outplacing Monica from the White House for Clinton. Sanchez is a successful businessman, not a career political hack. Everyone should support him.

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There's also this guy named Escobar running in the 39th Disrtict in California. We need to get more conservaitve Hispanics running for office, IMHO.