{"id":7191,"date":"2010-09-24T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T18:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2010-09-24T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T18:11:22","slug":"hispanic-dem-plays-identity-politics-with-vietnamese-republican-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7191\/hispanic-dem-plays-identity-politics-with-vietnamese-republican-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Dem Plays Identity Politics with Vietnamese Republican Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when then-candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7NDdwNDGf38\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Brown made reminded David Gergen<\/a> that the U.S. Senate seat he was contesting didn\u2019t belong to the Kennedy family or the Democrat Party, but the people of Massachusetts?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here we go again.\u00a0 This time it\u2019s Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) complaining that the Vietnamese-Americans supporting Republican Van Tran\u2019s candidacy are really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0910\/42673.html \" target=\"_blank\">trying to deny the Hispanic community<\/a> its rightful claim to congressional representation.\u00a0 Only in the Democrat Party can identity politics be used as a justification to elevate one ethnicity over another.\u00a0 After all, the logical implication of Sanchez\u2019s statement is that the Vietnamese in the district are not entitled to having one of their own in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell if Sanchez\u2019s district in Orange County, CA \u2013 once a bastion of conservatism \u2013 can rid the people\u2019s house of this kind of ethnic superiority complex; allowing America can get back to debating real issues, not cosmetic ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when then-candidate Scott Brown made reminded David Gergen that the U.S. Senate seat he was contesting didn\u2019t belong to the Kennedy family or the Democrat Party, but the people of Massachusetts? Well, here we go again.\u00a0 This time it\u2019s Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) complaining that the Vietnamese-Americans supporting Republican Van Tran\u2019s candidacy are really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1880,1883,1881,725,1882],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-david-gergen","tag-identity-politics","tag-loretta-sanchez","tag-scott-brown","tag-van-tran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7192,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}