The Daily Background
| Incredibly stupid Republican candidate pulls incredibly stupid dirty trick
by Arlen Parsa
From the deep files of when stupid Republican dirty tricks backfire:
Republicans in southern California asked one of their party’s congressional candidates to quit his race because his office sent out a letter telling Hispanics it was illegal for immigrants to vote.
It is, of course, not illegal at all for immigrants to vote. My dad (now a US citizen, but an immigrant nonetheless) votes every cycle. Stupid-stupid-stupid dirty trick. Now it’s backfiring, and Republicans are calling for him to bow out of the race.
The Republican candidate, Tan Nguyen is gonna lose anyways though to incumbent Loretta Sanchez (who is hispanic herself). The dirty letter, aimed at lowering (legal) hispanic turnout (hispanic people often vote Democratic) claimed that immigrants could be arrested and put in jail if they dared to vote.
What’s even stupider is that the Republican candidate, Nguyen, is actually a Vietnamese immigrant himself. If this little dirty letter his campaign sent out was actually factual, he wouldn’t be able to vote for himself on election day.
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