Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez appears to disparage American Indians

[JI7]

Source: sacramento bee

Two days after entering the race for the U.S. Senate, Rep. Loretta Sanchez met with an Indian American group on Saturday and mimicked a racial stereotype of American Indians.

In a video shown to The Sacramento Bee and posted online shortly after, Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, describes a pending meeting she had with an East Indian.

“I am going to his office, thinking that I am going to meet with a,” she said, holding her hand in front of her mouth and making an echo sound. “Right? ... because he said Indian American.

In 2000, as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention, she raised eyebrows by scheduling a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion. Al Gore, then the Democratic nominee for president, joined party leaders in complaining about the optics, and Sanchez’s slot as a featured speaker was revoked.



Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article21200154.html

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i didn't even know she had gotten into the race. i'm supporting Kamala HArris.

[still_one]

1. Native Americans, no?

[MADem]

3. Sounds like she was doing the woo-woo "war whoop" popular on

children's cowboys-and-indian TV shows and movies in the fifties.

She was insulting Native Americans, while describing a meeting with people from India (surprised she didn't do the "forehead dot" and accent mimicry).

Ugh. Bad scene. Not what we do as a party. Not sure how she walks that back.

At California Democratic Party convention, Senate candidate makes whooping gesture Attorney General Kamala Harris calls it ‘shocking’ Sanchez would not say if gesture was an appropriate one
U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez was criticized after making a remark about American Indians that Attorney General Kamala Harris criticized.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article21200154.html#storylink=cpy

[still_one]

4. She can't, at least to Native Americans

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. Exactly

[JI7]

7. yes, that's what she did , i saw the video of it

[MADem]

21. It's at the link.

She didn't give it the full "Pow Wow, The Indian Boy" treatment, but there was no mistaking what she was doing.

She's not ready for the upper chamber...!

[jwirr]

17. Hopefully she will not be nominated. Native Americans vote pretty solid Democrat. And they have

already heard all the apologies. Not only that but she will not only damage their vote in CA but throughout the US.

[MADem]

22. There's still a primary to get through, yet.

Her success is by no means assured.

Her judgment failed her in this instance, certainly.

[jwirr]

26. That is a good thing.

[jtuck004]

10. Yes. Racist in a business suit. Ought to lose any position, be fired like any bad cop. n/t

[NBachers]

2. I just found out about it today. I donate to Sanchez' campaigns; I'll probably be voting for Harris

A case could be made for Lorretta Shanchez' long history and experience in Congress.

A case could also be made for Harris remaining open to accept an Attorney General slot in a Clinton or Sanders administration. I'd hate to see her yanked out of the Senate to be AG.

[JI7]

6. the senate is a better step towards the presidency than attorney general

if she(or rather when) she becomes senator the only job she will leave the senate for will be president or maybe vp.

[Mr_King]

27. SCOTUS

I could see her taking a seat on the Supreme Court if nominated. That would be a lifetime job.

[MADem]

23. Good sketch of the issues--very valid analysis. +1. nt

[LovingA2andMI]

5. IDK....the tape is not going to do her any favors

The Video is here....

[JI7]

8. and i don't think she had much of a chance against Harris already

elizabeth warren and emily's list has also endorsed Harris. if not Harris then Newsom would probably have got into the race and he would also probably beat sanchez.

[Hoppy]

15. What a dipshit

[Ken Burch]

9. You'd think a Chicana politician would know better than to mock other poc.

What the hell could Sanchez have been thinking?

Also, does she have a past history of cluelessness about things like this?

[jtuck004]

11. Reminds me of the good Democrats of Oklahoma City who showed up to attack black kids, turn

their school buses over and incite their children to attack them back in the South Side of Oklahoma City, about 1971. You couldn't get a Repub elected there - they got shot at.

She would fit right in with those lying two-faced ass clowns. Some folks never change.

[joshcryer]

12. Yikes.

The sad part is the probably sincerely thinks she didn't say anything bad, she was just joking around, etc.

[mwrguy]

13. She's gone after Asians before, too. I wonder what she has to say about African Americans

when the cameras aren't rolling.

[bullwinkle428]

16. I thought I had recalled something about her attacking a candidate of

Vietnamese descent a few years back. I know she has a sister who also served in Congress, and I didn't remember which one had made those comments.

[cosmicone]

14. If that is the best she can do against Kamala Harris who is Indian-American

then her candidacy is doomed.

I had respect for Loretta Sánchez because she slayed Bob Dornan but coming from union roots, she has become an embarrassment.

Kamala Harris will win the primary like a bulldozer against a weed.

[mahina]

18. Buh-bye.

That didn't take long.

[alp227]

20. this has got to be her "macaca" moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_%28U.S._politician%29#.22Macaca.22_controversy

[bigtree]

24. Loretta Sanchez apologizes

Katherine Miller ?@katherinemiller 7m7 minutes ago
Loretta Sanchez apologizes
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katherinemiller/this-one-really-happened …

“In this crazy and exciting rush of meetings yesterday, I said something offensive, and for that I sincerely apologize,” Sanchez told hundreds of delegates Sunday on the closing morning of the state Democratic Party convention in Anaheim.

Sanchez said she was proud of her record defending the rights of Native Americans.

“They know my record,” she said. “They know how much I have spent, the time that I have spent with them at their tribal councils, listening to them, advocating for them. They know that I have always had their backs.

“And they know what many of you don’t know — that like so many Mexican Americans, I am proudly Native American on my mother’s side.”

...hmm. Probably not enough. Perhaps he should say why she believes it's inappropriate and inexcusable.

[Judi Lynn]

25. She has never seemed to be someone who can think before speaking. It's a problem with her. n/t

[red dog 1]

28. I still plan to vote for Kamala Harris,

but then, there's this:
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-loretta-sanchez-war-cry-video-kamala-harris-fundraiser-20150517-story.html

[davidpdx]

29. I'm not a registered voter in California, but based on her comments she should drop out

of the race. Once you start making comments like that you don't deserve to even run for senate let alone dog catcher. It shocks me that as a minority she would make fun of another minority.