By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--September 25, 2010
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“SANTA ANA – Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez said Friday that her now-famous remark about "Vietnamese" trying to take her seat had been misinterpreted but apologized if it caused any offense. “She did not, however, apologize for calling her Republican challenger Van Tran – himself an immigrant from Vietnam – anti-immigrant. Instead, she accused him of using her words to "take a cheap political shot “Sanchez told an interviewer earlier this month on Spanish-language television that "the Vietnamese and the Republicans" were trying to wrest control of her seat in Congress. She described Tran in the same interview as "very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic." "I used a poor choice of words that some people have taken as offensive," Sanchez said during a small press conference late Friday afternoon. "Let me say as clearly as I can that if, through my inarticulate use of the language, I offended anyone, I apologize for those remarks."Given the throat-cutting, no holds barred, intensity of the 2010 elections, one can readily understand how a “poor choice of words” could inadvertently slip into one’s rhetoric, especially through the friendly microphones of a Spanish-language, biased TV broadcast. But denigrating one for being Vietnamese AND Republican? That is way over the line, even for a Pelosi Democrat!
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.