CA-SEN: Loretta Sanchez implies Obama endorsed Kamala Harris because they are both black

[RandySF]

Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez said in an interview with a Spanish-language television station that she believes President Obama may have endorsed rival Kamala Harris in California’s U.S. Senate race because they are both black, injecting a dose of racial politics into a historic contest that in November will elect the state’s first African American or Latino senator.

Sanchez made the comment during a taped interview for public affairs show “Conexión” that aired Friday on Univision 19 in Sacramento. The remarks follow a blistering statement Sanchez issued after the endorsement earlier this week, accusing the president of being part of the nation’s “entrenched political establishment.”

In the interview, the congresswoman noted that Obama and Harris have been longtime friends, but said that race was also a factor in his endorsement:

“I think they have, what he said they have, is a friendship of many years. She is African American, as is he. They know each other through meetings,” Sanchez said in Spanish during the interview.


http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-senate-loretta-sanchez-kamala-harris-president-obama-endorsement-20160722-snap-story.html

[CrowCityDem]

1. More evidence that progressives are no better when things don't go their way.

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[Bluenorthwest]

3. Sanchez is a moderate Democrat, not even a member of the progressive caucus.

She's responsible for what she said, not other Democrats, moderates nor members of her ethnic group, ya know? She's a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrats but they are not responsible, she is.

[CrowCityDem]

7. I just mean that we talk about ourselves being better than that, but we rarely prove to be.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Ah. And yet again, it's about her, not us. We did not say this. She did.

Collective guilt stinks. She owns this.

[Journeyman]

2. There's a familiar drum. She beat it before, 2010, against the "Vietnamese" who were after her seat…

http://www.politico.com/story/2010/09/sanchez-vietnamese-after-my-seat-042673

[SharonClark]

14. Sanchez is an embarrassment

[glennward]

4. Makes sense to me. nt

[JI7]

5. loretta sanchez on native americans

https://m.youtube.com/results?q=loretta%20sanchez%20indian&sm=1

[fun n serious]

12. Wow! That's awful!

[Expecting Rain]

6. I hate the "Top Two" system we have here in CA

That (due to the implosion of the GOP) is going to often pit Democrats against Democrats in the General.

This system destroys the whole rationale of having a partisan party primary, and lets Republican's have too big a voice in choosing the more centrist Democrat in a General (instead of the Democratic pick facing a Republican.

Inter-party General elections can get nasty, and tearing at the coalition is not a good thing.

We should work to repeal this system!

[bravenak]

8. I see she admits they have a years long friendship... She shoulda left it at that cause that's why.

[Cha]

15. Yeah, really no need to state the obvious.

[Thrill]

9. Wow that's really not fair

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[Hekate]

10. Big mistake, Loretta. I expect better of you.

[RandySF]

13. She needs Tepublican votes.

[Starry Messenger]

16. Vote Kamala.

Sanchez is an embarrassment.

[oasis]

17. I was thrilled when Sanchez unseated right winger Bob Dornan

20+ years ago. That said, she needs to stay put.

[Txbluedog]

18. I thought Kamala Harris was Indian (SE Asian)

[Southerncomfy]

19. Not entirely... Her father is Jamaican

https://ballotpedia.org/Kamala_Harris

Harris was born in California's East Bay. She is the daughter of a Tamil mother, Dr. Shyamala Harris, a breast cancer specialist who came to the United States from India in 1960 to study at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Jamaican American father, a Stanford University economics professor.