The title of the piece (
not on the opinion page), "For Rep. Sanchez, a hot-tomato label means a hot potato", irked me, but the building of the caricature throughout the piece is downright offensive.
Sorry, but I
sorta really love a lawmaker who crams an interview into a quick-change for a local event, time being a precious commodity and all. It's downright classless for this woman reporter to have made mention of that AT ALL.
Was this a glimpse of Loretta Sanchez, siren, a politician known for her strenuous workout regimen and fondness for come-hither heels? Or was this Loretta Sanchez, harried congresswoman, too wrapped up in important national issues to take a break in the name of modesty?
You'd think Rep Sanchez had taken her breasts for a walk in front of Hannity on Fox News! The reporter notes twice that Sanchez has been viewed as "one of Congress' 'babes'." -And of course, the lazy storyteller's best friends, Messrs. Some and Other, were of service
A close talker with a penchant for patting arms and gripping shoulders, Sanchez has a style that some label friendly and others flirtatious.
Understand, ladies?: Stand well away and keep your hands to yourselves.
In the coming months, Sanchez will be tested on whether her reputation will be more coquette or congresswoman. Entrenched in the House majority for the first time, she is allied with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and sits on two of the most prominent committees: Armed Services and Homeland Security, being the second-ranking Democrat on the latter.
NO. In the coming months, Sanchez will be tested on whether
she does what her constituents sent her to Washington to do, you Victorian throw-back!
Even when relating activities that recommend Sanchez, the writer can't resist playing to the theme she's created-
On a recent Saturday, after she shook hands at the Tet Festival, Sanchez again donned the red knit suit and headed to the Veterans Affairs hospital in Long Beach before attending a formal event in her district. As Sanchez chatted with a patient about his mother's enchiladas and planted a kiss on his forehead, a hospital staffer whispered that the congresswoman shows up far more often than other politicians.
Sanchez also helped another patient dial his cellphone later teased a doctor "you're Vietnamese? Why aren't you at the Tet Festival?"
In the lobby, punctuating each word with a gesture, she said she couldn't grasp the policy wonks in Congress dreading time among the kind of constituents who relish her candor and unpredictability.
"They say I'm a legislator. She crinkled her nose for emphasis. "Well, I'm a politician and a legislator."
That must have been how she defeated her Republican challenger - the patented Democratic Woman's Nose Crinkle.
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