Yesterday the OC Weekly’s Navel Gazing blog had yet another good post up about Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’s hypocrisy in not co-sponsoring the DREAM Act. This also ties into yesterday’s brief post about her obvious ethnic pandering, except this time, Loretta is going to bat for youth activists in Vietnam, while seemingly ignoring the pleas of the DREAM Activists in her own district. This part from the Navel Gazing blog post pretty much sums it up for me and also gets to the essence of some of the struggles I have blogged about with young people like Walter Lara:
“Loretta, honey, how can you passionately chastise a “disregard for basic, civil, political and religious liberties,” in Vietnam when these students in your own district, who have supported you for years, (not to mention the former illegal Latinos who voted for you after the 1986 amnesty), are being denied basic civil liberties and treated like law-breaking scoundrels despite their status as good, law-abiding college students?”
Trying to win points with the Vietnamese community is fine, as it is an important part of her district, but ignoring the pleas of the DREAM Activists to co-sponsor this bi-partisan bill that would benefit many young people in her district is cruel.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Anna // Jul 9, 2009 at 10:54 am
Why should she sponsor a bill that doesn’t have the votes to pass and that would probably jeopardize her seat or any opportunity for higher office?
Why should the rest of us lose representation over illegal immigration? We have already lost Hilda Solis’s seat.
Let somebody from a less diverse district sponsor it.
2 Michaelr // Jul 9, 2009 at 11:47 am
Low-Low doesn’t support any political legislation, nor even takes the time to support any political issues favorably to the Latinos community anyway. So why support her? Are you so blind, deaf, and dumb to not see that? Why support a political entity who isn’t fully involved in the business of state? Loretta Sanchez has proved time and time again that she has absolutely no concern for the welfare and social advancement of the Latino community. Henry B. Gonzalez…she isn’t. And never will be.
3 Anna // Jul 9, 2009 at 12:42 pm
That’s up to the voters in HER district to decide.
You guys have an unhealthy obsession with this woman.
4 El Cholo // Jul 9, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Unhealthy…Oooo, dare I say it…Anna showing limited written restraint. Your quantity over quality mentality doesn’t produce successful enlightened societies. Why fill Congress with an abundance of Third World mentalities? Aren’t there enough murders, social injustices, indentured servants, and superficial values to go around in the world? What culture wants to emulate Mexico and the rest of Latin America anyway? That’s what 93.5% of the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus is. You take Raul Grijalva out of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and you’re left with a dysfunctional group of corrupt, self-serving, ignorant U.S. politicians who only know how to miss votes on the Hill, ask stupid questions to the C.I.A., and juice their expenses. We’re in a fight to the death for social/political parity, and you’re only concerned with how many lowlifes/thieves/coconuts we can send to Washington?
5 BettyM // Jul 9, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I am in agreement with Michaelr…”she has absolutely no concern for the welfare and social advancement of the Latino community”.
6 theKaiser // Jul 9, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Loretta Sanchez is only interested in the Latino community when election time rolls around. After that happens, she reverts to singing the praises of Luciano Pavarotti, and chatting with Hillary Clinton about the possibility of an ambassadorship posting to Italy. The Vietnamese community gets more attention than the Latino community, but that’s nothing really to brag about either. We are the red headed stepchild of this public thief.
7 DoctorH // Jul 12, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Loretta Sanchez is the most inept and rather obviously disconnected Congressional Representative on the Hill. Say what you want about all those GOP representatives that parade themselves on FOX and make all those idiotic comments, but Low-Low is quite a piece of work. Those of you who see her as a political role model or even a community leader are terribly confused on what actually defines political role models and community leaders. You do not want to emulate Loretta Sanchez. You do not want to bring a schizophrenic compulsive liar into a public forum to represent a political community. That is what Low-Low is. She is simply a white-washed version of Rosario Marin. And that’s a compliment to Loretta, since Rosario Marin is very transparent in her uses of corrupt and sleazy approaches to political solutions. Loretta simply chooses to do nothing rather than protect the interests of her constituents, more or less occupying space on Capitol Hill rather than contribute to the business of state. It’s nice that finally some observers in the Latino political community are on to her game. We were all convinced that public education has done a horrible injustice in educating Latino children and preparing them for the reality of being able to recognize bone fide political leadership. Hopefully this group that monitors inept Latino politicians reaches more ears.
8 Professor Y // Jul 14, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Loretta isn’t even representing the best interest of her district. Here unemployed, under-educated, uneducated constituents suffer at the hands of the neo-conservative majority in her district while she parties. Lets be honest we are ALL suffering at the hands of her behavior. She is an embarrassment from our district in Capitol Hill. No one wants to meet with her. No one asks for her opinion. Her political clout isn’t worth the motorcycle she rented for her 2008 Christmas card. Meet her at a public event she won’t answer any questions about her policies. Hopefully it won’t take the larger Latino community much longer to understand who and what she is and vote her out. Otherwise we will suffer more outrageous Christmas cards and more than likely watch Van Tran win her seat.
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