Loretta Sanchez’ Hispanic extraction is a matter of convenience. When she lost her first run at a public office as a Republican and using her married name, Brixley, she lost. Two years later, she ran using her maiden name and as a Republican and won. Last week, on the Spanish language television network, she told voters in her district;<\/p>\n
The Vietnamese and the Republicans are \u2014 with intensity \u2014 trying to take away this seat, this seat for which we have already done so much for our community. [Taking] this seat from us and [giving] it to this Van Tran, who’s very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She might as well have said the Viet Cong were attacking us.<\/p>\n
Everything boils down to race. This country has always been a melting pot and Loretta Sanchez, by making her election race about “us vs. them” is polarizing her district. I guess she hoped that if she said that on Spanish-language TV, no one would find out about her racism.<\/p>\n
Suppose John McCain had told the American public that the Blacks were trying to take over the White House in 2008. What kind of reaction would that have caused?<\/p>\n
Van Tran, her opponent said in the Los Angeles Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n
“This is a mischaracterization that there is an alleged wedge between the Vietnamese and Latino community,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sanchez is a racist and doesn’t deserve her position in Congress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"