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Related: About this forumPete Hoekstra's (R-Loserville) racist ad against Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan)
The man is a total ass in the first place. This doesn't surprise me. West Michigan is known as a hotbed of far righties, so it probably enhances his standing there.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097098/Superbowl-2012-Republicans-face-backlash-racist-ad-Asian-girl-struggling-speak-English.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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Pete Hoekstra's (R-Loserville) racist ad against Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) (Original Post)
Denninmi
Feb 2012
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CurtEastPoint
(18,649 posts)1. It strikes me as being childish and stupid.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)2. That's all he got? Childish name-calling, and xenophobia?
What a guy.
If it wasn't for federal government spending, Michigan's economy would be totally annihilated instead of just dire.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)3. well, that was lame...
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)4. Racist. n/t