(repug) Radio ad featuring accent upsetting Dems, Valleyites

[donsu]

http://www.themonitor.com/NewsPub/News/Stories/2003/08/15/10610020422.shtml

McALLEN — Local Democratic leaders are upset about a new radio spot that is running on at least one area radio station attacking State Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen.
Hinojosa is among the 11 Democrat senators holed up in and Albuquerque, N.M., hotel to break quorum in the State Senate and prevent passage of a congressional redistricting plan that would slice up Rio Grande Valley congressional representation.
The ad, paid for by the Texas Republican Party, questions Hinojosa’s voting record.

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The radio spot features two unidentified actors — one female, the other an older male — speaking in cartoonish, thickly Mexican-accented English.
“That’s the mentality that the Republicans have of our part of the state,” said Juan Maldonado, chairman of the statewide Tejano Democrats organization. “They think we’re still sleeping under a cactus with a big sombrero and don’t know how to speak English.”

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“They’re looking down at us,” Leo said. “At least Chuy is not hiding how he is feeling. Let’s not be cowards, come out and show your face. Don’t hide behind those ‘Mexican’ actors in the commercial.”
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more trouble in Texas

[tsipple]

1. Way to Go, Texas GOP!

Go on, keep right on playing the race card. Democrats will gladly take New Mexico's electoral votes in 2004.

[judgegina]

2. Oh those rascally racist Texas Republicans...

I expect any day now that they will be posting a "White's Only" sign outside of the Senate chamber.

[liberalhistorian]

3. They might as well do it and make it formal,

they've done it in all but name anyway! Repukes are so stupid when they slip and let their true bigotry show!

[peacetalksforall]

4. Repukes live in the past

Hollywood used to portray all Spanish speaking people based on what they knew from trips to Tijuana.

Repukes live in the past in other ways - decades of the same stealth operatives. Decades of trickle down deficits.

Their leaders went back to the past to form the rule that they are pushing for the world. Some nazism, communism, military dictatorship, kingdom-surfdom, monarchial, imperialistic, barbarism.

Their leaders went back to the past to form the rule that they are pushing for the world. Some nazism, communism, military dictatorship, kingdom-surfdom, monarchial, imperialistic, barbarism.

[MuseRider]

5. How stupid are these people?

It sounds like they are as clueless abut Texans as they are about Iraqis. Jesus, have they ever looked outside of themselves?

[Gingergal]

6. Next, TX repukes will get KKK to have TV spots in the

Valley and in Houston and Dallas. Wouldn't that be fun? They are such clueless people. Maybe they will finally get the Dems to turn out and vote and kick out the repugs!! There are more registered Dems than Repukes in Texas but they just don't vote.