Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez appears to disparage American Indians
Source: sacramento bee
Two days after entering the race for the U.S. Senate, Rep. Loretta Sanchez met with an Indian American group on Saturday and mimicked a racial stereotype of American Indians.
In a video shown to The Sacramento Bee and posted online shortly after, Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, describes a pending meeting she had with an East Indian.
I am going to his office, thinking that I am going to meet with a, she said, holding her hand in front of her mouth and making an echo sound. Right? ... because he said Indian American.
In 2000, as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention, she raised eyebrows by scheduling a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion. Al Gore, then the Democratic nominee for president, joined party leaders in complaining about the optics, and Sanchezs slot as a featured speaker was revoked.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article21200154.html
i didn't even know she had gotten into the race. i'm supporting Kamala HArris.
still_one
(92,116 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)children's cowboys-and-indian TV shows and movies in the fifties.
She was insulting Native Americans, while describing a meeting with people from India (surprised she didn't do the "forehead dot" and accent mimicry).
Ugh. Bad scene. Not what we do as a party. Not sure how she walks that back.
U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez was criticized after making a remark about American Indians that Attorney General Kamala Harris criticized.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article21200154.html#storylink=cpy
still_one
(92,116 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)JI7
(89,244 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)She didn't give it the full "Pow Wow, The Indian Boy" treatment, but there was no mistaking what she was doing.
She's not ready for the upper chamber...!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)already heard all the apologies. Not only that but she will not only damage their vote in CA but throughout the US.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Her success is by no means assured.
Her judgment failed her in this instance, certainly.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)NBachers
(17,098 posts)A case could be made for Lorretta Shanchez' long history and experience in Congress.
A case could also be made for Harris remaining open to accept an Attorney General slot in a Clinton or Sanders administration. I'd hate to see her yanked out of the Senate to be AG.
JI7
(89,244 posts)if she(or rather when) she becomes senator the only job she will leave the senate for will be president or maybe vp.
I could see her taking a seat on the Supreme Court if nominated. That would be a lifetime job.
MADem
(135,425 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)The Video is here....
JI7
(89,244 posts)elizabeth warren and emily's list has also endorsed Harris. if not Harris then Newsom would probably have got into the race and he would also probably beat sanchez.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)What the hell could Sanchez have been thinking?
Also, does she have a past history of cluelessness about things like this?
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)their school buses over and incite their children to attack them back in the South Side of Oklahoma City, about 1971. You couldn't get a Repub elected there - they got shot at.
She would fit right in with those lying two-faced ass clowns. Some folks never change.
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)The sad part is the probably sincerely thinks she didn't say anything bad, she was just joking around, etc.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)when the cameras aren't rolling.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Vietnamese descent a few years back. I know she has a sister who also served in Congress, and I didn't remember which one had made those comments.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)then her candidacy is doomed.
I had respect for Loretta Sánchez because she slayed Bob Dornan but coming from union roots, she has become an embarrassment.
Kamala Harris will win the primary like a bulldozer against a weed.
That didn't take long.
alp227
(32,015 posts)bigtree
(85,986 posts)Loretta Sanchez apologizes
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katherinemiller/this-one-really-happened
In this crazy and exciting rush of meetings yesterday, I said something offensive, and for that I sincerely apologize, Sanchez told hundreds of delegates Sunday on the closing morning of the state Democratic Party convention in Anaheim.
Sanchez said she was proud of her record defending the rights of Native Americans.
They know my record, she said. They know how much I have spent, the time that I have spent with them at their tribal councils, listening to them, advocating for them. They know that I have always had their backs.
And they know what many of you dont know that like so many Mexican Americans, I am proudly Native American on my mothers side.
...hmm. Probably not enough. Perhaps he should say why she believes it's inappropriate and inexcusable.
Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)of the race. Once you start making comments like that you don't deserve to even run for senate let alone dog catcher. It shocks me that as a minority she would make fun of another minority.