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?
(Excerpt) Read more at politicsdaily.com ...
Although we won in the field, we ultimately lost the war as our resolve failed and we did not support South Viet Nam as our promises and our interests required. Our allies turned refugee tend to be both socially conservative and ideological hostile to the Left. They are also willing to work and fight to defend their new country and its principles — which, in a flip way, was my point.
It’s hilarious that Sanchez’s campaign office is in the same shopping center as a popular Vietnamese coffee house. She’s probably gotten a lot of dirty looks lately, maybe even an unhappy piece of mail or two slipped through the slot in the door.
I hope she loses by a big margin and moves back to Palos Verdes with her husband.
I have liked the SE Asian refugees whom I have known over the years. The communists exacted terrible retribution on our former allies. Many were killed outright, while others were gradually worked and staved to death in prison camps. The current communist regime in Viet Nam is corrupt and brutal but finds itself increasingly aligned with the US against China.
I have great respect for both Vietnamese and Laotians who are U.S. citizens. Have never met a leftie amoung them.
Most Cubans are the same way, but there are a few lefties amoung them.
I particulary have respect for the Hmong and the soldiers who fought with Vang Pao in Laos (plain of jars).
Exactly. Even the North Vietnamese admit we beat them on the battlefield; their point is that isn’t where the war was won or lost.
I do the "lump thing"....categorize them all as chinamen. My wife hates me for that, but I'll live with it.
Good points.
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.Thanks no dems.
I wonder if she actually lives in the district. When she first ran there was a controversy because she and her husband had a beautiful house in the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the luxury community Palos Verdes Estates way outside her district. I think she claimed that she and her husband were living in a small apartment not their huge home. They’ve now got a small condo in the district which she claims as her full time residence when she’s not in D.C. If it happened and is still going on it’s a serious crime here in California. When she was running the first time for some reason the media wasn’t interested in the story.
We have one city council person and his wife having multiple charges brought up against them for this very thing. He had a house in the district which looked abandoned for many years(yard all weeds and dead grass; windows covered with tacky worn drapes; lacked proper paint and other obvious maintenance on outside, no cars ever parked in drive, etc.) and a beautiful 2 story gated house in a historic area outside his district with a well maintained lawn and toys in yard. He tried to have the area where bigger house was located added to his district. That was blocked. Someone blew the whistle. He claimed he wasn’t living in the house in the district because it had been broken into by a homeless person over the weekend and trashed so badly he couldn’t live in it. If someone can prove Lorretta spends more time when she’s in California in the sprawling PV Estate home it could be embarrassing for her assuming the media covers it. The Dog Trainer as Paterico refers to the LA Times really didn’t cover her comment (it was buried in an article in the inside portions of the paper. Not where they’d have put it if she were a Republican and it only appeared 1 time. You can read the LA Times article to see if it’s what would be written if she were a Republican: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/25/local/la-me-0925-sanchez-vietnamese-20100925
I can imagine the racist garbage she spewed on Spanish TV to "her people"........ While behaving a lot more civilized when speaking English to general audiences
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