Posted on 01/21/2014 9:47:11 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
California Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly took to CNN's Spanish-language airwaves recently to deny accusations that a campaign ad he shot with Cuban-Venezuelan actress Maria Conchita Alonso is racist.
The candidate, who is also a state assemblyman, touted his Filipina wife as evidence that he's not prejudiced.
"If I am a racist, I'm not a very good one," Donnelly said Thursday on CNN en Español's "Directo USA" show. "I must have gone to the wrong school where you learn how to be a racist because I married a woman with dark skin. As a matter of fact, her skin's darker than Maria Conchita's."
Alonso agreed, saying, "Tim is married to a Filipina. His daughter-in-law is Mexican. He is not a racist and neither am I, as we are now being accused."
The three-minute video, released January 13 on YouTube, has come under fire by some Latinos and Latino groups.
In the video, Alonso cradles a small, sweater-clad lapdog she calls Tequila as she translates, and oftentimes reinterprets, Donnelly's views on a wide range of issues.
At one point, Alonso makes a somewhat crude allusion to Donnelly's boldness.
In the ad, Donnelly says, "I want a gun in every Californians gun safe. I want the government out of our business and our bedroom. I want to bring the film industry back where she belongs, Hollywood." To which Alonso responds, "Los tiene bien grandes y esta enojado" meaning, "He has really big ones, and he's angry."
The candidate said the exchanges are meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but to some Latinos, who have taken to Twitter to express their outrage, the spot comes across as bizarre and ridiculous and as a stereotypical attempt to connect with Latino voters.
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Thanks. I wonder if you will go as far as I did? This week, we go visit The Island Garden City of Samal.
progressive cancer is stronger than skin color in people that think that skin color means everything in the world.
I think the ad is “bizarre and ridiculous.” If anyone wants to call me any names over that, fine.
I agree... This is just more GOP stupidity.
Maybe we’re just not the target audience. There could be California voters who say, “Angry man who’s proud of his testicles? That’s my Governor!”
I live in CA, it ain't bizarre here.
Is that his wife?
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