Immigrant Remarks By Ehrlich Still Burn: Local Leaders Want an Apology

[Freddie Stubbs]

By Darragh Johnson and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 12, 2004; Page B01


Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s remarks last week dismissing multiculturalism as "crap" and "bunk" echoed across the state yesterday, as Democratic and Latino leaders demanded an apology and Ehrlich defended his comments as "utter common sense."

In Montgomery County, the County Council unanimously passed a resolution expressing "deep concern" over the governor's "ill-chosen remarks" and suggested "the phrase 'I'm sorry' as appropriate to the occasion."

In Baltimore, Mayor Martin O'Malley (D) addressed the issue -- in Spanish -- during his weekly radio address, saying, "Few of us would be here if our non-English-speaking relatives hadn't struggled for a few years -- or decades -- to learn English."

In Takoma Park, a half-dozen state and local Latino leaders and about 50 immigrant advocates gathered to decry Ehrlich's "far right" remarks and call for more resources to teach immigrants English.

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[Bertha Venation]

1. Tom Toles on Ehrlich today:

[sus]

2. haha! that's great!

I thought Schaefer's comments were far worse.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. Perhaps, but

The state Comptroller is a much more low-profile office, so people are not as concerned about what he says.

[sus]

4. yeah but...

it's Donald Schaefer!

He's more interesting than Ehrlich. He gets nuttier every year. The downward spiral started when he endorsed Bush in '92.

[Zuni]

6. He really has become a crackpot, hasn't he?

The best was when he started talking about interstate ciggarette smuggling being a major revenue source for Al Quaeda.
I thought that was sure to bring the men in white coats to finally drag him off.

[Zuni]

7. It is just another one of his senile rants

It is not like anyone takes himn seriously anymore. The guy is visibly nuts.

[Frances]

5. I will be very happy when Shaefer fades away

Shaefer was the Dem governor before Paris Glending & Sahefer hated Glending (sp?) so much that Shaefer did nothing to support Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Glending's Lt. Gov.) when she ran against Ehrlich. I don't think Shaefer officially endorsed Ehrlich, but it was clear that Ehrlich was his choice, as I recall.