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Dane, the broad brush and hysteria are yours... again.

No Sabey, the hysteria comes from you and Fitz. No one has argued against the fact that Sanchez won a primary with a very low turnout spending $18 million of his own money. He should have gotten 90% of the vote. He didn't.

JMO, but you all have a knee jerk reaction(which the demo's and the press exploit) when faced with a candidate with a Spanish surname.

JMO, but you all have a knee jerk reaction (which the demo's and the press exploit) when faced with a candidate with a Spanish surname.

Yes, what a narrow brush.
The Democrats just hate statements like yours here.

That is so dumb----no one minds if someone like Henry Bonilla campaigns because he isn't a racist panderer like Sanchez. It's not the name ----it's the type of politics:

Dan Morales, the tenacious former attorney general, is Mr. Sanchez's main rival in today's primary. Mr. Morales, a critic of affirmative action who is still hoping to pull a major upset, has accused Mr. Sanchez of acting as if he were running for governor of Mexico, comparing him to a Mexican patron who feels entitled to buy the election because he already owns everything else.

The unprecedented Texas showdown between the two Hispanic candidates has been a slugfest, filled with charges of ethical and ethnic shortcomings, and presenting different models of Mexican-American assimilation. Mr. Sanchez insisted that one of their two debates be in Spanish. Mr. Morales accused Mr. Sanchez of using race and language to drive a wedge between Texans. "This is Texas and in Texas we speak English as our primary language," he said. During the Spanish-language debate, Mr. Morales, like some defiant hostage unwilling to be cowed by his captors, insisted on translating his own answers into English.

From http://www.tonysanchez.com/news/pressclips/March02/031202b.htm (his own webpage)

It's fairly obvious over the last 10-12 days, that immigration reform, policy and philosophy is not the issue for the increasingly recognizable obsessives here. It's not immigration, it's the immigrants. It's not security concerns, it's not economic injury ... it's cultural encroachment they so abhor and fear. There's no underlying virtue or foundation of respect to start any debate with them. They don't like Mexicans. Legal or illegal. They want them out. I want these creeps out.