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Bustamante defends student background
Conservatives see racism in separatist group
SFgate ^
| Friday, August 29, 2003
| John Wildermuth
Posted on 08/30/2003 12:13:23 PM PDT by demlosers
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:43:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is fighting off claims from conservative critics that he has links to a Latino campus organization that has called for returning California and the Southwest to Mexico.
Bustamante was a member of MEChA, a group with chapters on hundreds of college campuses, when he was a student at California State University Fresno in the 1970s. In recent days, callers to conservative talk radio stations have dubbed MEChA an anti-white hate group, dedicated to racial separatism.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bustamante; bustamecha; mecha; separatists
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To: ambrose
"So? The Ahnold Lovers on here say that a man's past does not matter. But then it suddenly matters with Cruz? "
Cruz has refused to renounce his association with the racist group. Arnold agrees that smoking dope is bad. There is no comparison.
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posted on
08/30/2003 2:16:14 PM PDT
by
Buck W.
To: B Knotts
"What we're seeing is all about the attack on illegal immigration and the driver's license bill for illegal immigrants," said Art Torres, chairman of the state Democratic Party. "It's obviously anti-Mexican and aimed at Cruz." It seems Art failed to notice the two 'illegals' in his own sentence.
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posted on
08/30/2003 2:22:44 PM PDT
by
blanknoone
(There are only 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
To: demlosers
MEChA seems to be a bunch of bigoted revolutionaries and idiots to me.
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posted on
08/30/2003 2:28:59 PM PDT
by
BenR2
((John 3:16: Still True Today.))
To: demlosers
Conservatives? You have to be kidding. Even my hispanic relatives are embarrassed by this bunch. And they aren't Republicans by any stretch.
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08/30/2003 3:57:37 PM PDT
by
OpusatFR
To: B Knotts
I didn't comment as to whether I think it was racist or not. I think that it is.
I said his constituency doesn't care.
And I am right.
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08/30/2003 4:27:49 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
To: Uncle Hal
What is so funny to me is that if this organization has it's way - all of California will become Mexican territory. I cannot imagine the liberals being happy about that .. and yet they try to make out it's the "conservatives" who are concerned about it. Amazing!!
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08/30/2003 6:49:13 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
( America - "The Greatest Nation on the Face of the Earth")
To: demlosers
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