By John W. Lillpop
There is nothing quite as amusing as watching a liberal politician who has parlayed alleged racism into undeserved votes for more than a decade suddenly forced on the defensive over her own overt racism.
Such is the case with Democrat Loretta Brixey, who changed her surname to Sanchez upon learning that there were considerably more Hispanics than previously thought in the 46th District of Orange County which she was trying to wrest from Republican incumbent and Caucasian Bob Dornan in 1996.
Ultimately, Brixley’s name change, good enough to garner at least 1,000 votes from illegal aliens, catapulted the Democrat into the U.S. House of Representatives where she has misrepresented the good people of her district ever since.
However, that was then ,this is now.
Now we have the self-righteous, but knot headed, Loretta Sanchez issuing a parsed-word apology for her outburst against her Vietnamese opponent, a good man and Republican, named Van Tran.
As reported, in part, at Reference 1:
“SANTA ANA – Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez said Friday that her now-famous remark about "Vietnamese" trying to take her seat had been misinterpreted but apologized if it caused any offense.
“She did not, however, apologize for calling her Republican challenger Van Tran – himself an immigrant from Vietnam – anti-immigrant. Instead, she accused him of using her words to "take a cheap political shot
“Sanchez told an interviewer earlier this month on Spanish-language television that "the Vietnamese and the Republicans" were trying to wrest control of her seat in Congress. She described Tran in the same interview as "very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic."
"I used a poor choice of words that some people have taken as offensive," Sanchez said during a small press conference late Friday afternoon. "Let me say as clearly as I can that if, through my inarticulate use of the language, I offended anyone, I apologize for those remarks."
Given the throat-cutting, no holds barred, intensity of the 2010 elections, one can readily understand how a “poor choice of words” could inadvertently slip into one’s rhetoric, especially through the friendly microphones of a Spanish-language TV broadcast.
But denigrating one for being Vietnamese AND Republican?
That is way over the line, even for a Pelosi Democrat!
http://www.ocregister.com/news/sanchez-268143-tran-vietnamese.html
