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9. Bullshit: Nobody Shouted "English Only" at Dolores Huerta
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 04:39 AM
Feb 2016



http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35343-nobody-shouted-qenglish-onlyq-at-dolores-huerta

'She is mistaken, however, when she claims that supporters of Bernie Sanders shouted “English only.” One person in that room uttered the words “English only,” and it was the precinct chair, who said: “We are going to go with English only, I’m sorry.”

The room did get loud, but there was no objection to there being an interpreter; the objection was to having a Clinton surrogate on the stage. In the video above, you can hear “No” and “Neutral” being shouted. Nobody was chanting “English only.”

In an interview in The Washington Post, Huerta said, “The Bernie organizers were shouting, ‘No, no, no.’ Then a Bernie person stood up and said, ‘No, we need to have it, I can also do translation’ or whatever. The person who ran the caucus said, ‘Well, we won’t have a translator.’ The sad thing about this is that some of the organizers were shouting, ‘English only! English only!’ The Bernie organizers.”

Most of her statement is accurate, but the most serious allegation she made is not true. For the record, I shot the video and was centrally located in the room.

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