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Angle Courts Latinos…20 Years too late

After 20 years of hostility toward Hispanics, Sharron Angle’s make over begins!

Las Vegas --- As a desperate Sharron Angle tries to breathe life into her flailing campaign, she is now hoping that a Spanish-language bumper sticker will solve all her problems in Nevada's Hispanic community.  But she's going to need a lot more than that to erase 20 years of extreme positions on issues of importance to the Hispanic community including jobs, education and comprehensive immigration reform.

Quick, call the DC handlers, this is going to be a makeover of epic proportions!

A story by the Associated Press today contrasted Angle’s abysmal record with Reid’s long-standing relationship with Nevada’s Latinos and his fight for the issues that matter to them. The story comes a day after Angle received the endorsement of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, one of the most disliked figures in the Hispanic community (Nevada law enforcement already endorsed Reid, so she had to go out-of-state). In a futile attempt to try to make Angle appear reasonable on Latino issues, one of her DC handlers today said Angle is very interested in courting the Latino vote. Her only problem?  Well, where to start?

  • Last month, Angle headlined an event for a radical doctors group that claims immigrants spread leprosy.
  • Angle opposes the Millennium Scholarship because legal residents could benefit;
  • KLAS reported that Angle has blacked out Nevada’s Hispanic media, including during a media event where she pledged to change the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution using the loaded and xenophobic language “anchor babies.” 
  • She will be forced to explain why she believes  “it's not my job to create jobs" and that unemployed Nevadans are "spoiled" to a community that has been hit harder by unemployment than just about any other.
  • Angle said that as a child she performed manual labor in the service industry, which she described as jobs that “Americans won't do.”

 That's just the beginning.  In what could only be described as the ultimate hypocrisy, Angle is begging for votes from the very same people she wants to disenfranchise. In 2006, Angle told a conservative radio host she opposed having election materials in Spanish and has been a rabid proponent of English-only legislation.  

“Well, I’m an English only person, and I don’t believe that just because it’s a federal law that we’re bound to it,” Angle said.

...BUT, WAIT FOR IT...

Today, Angle told the AP that she plans to air ads in Spanish.

“Sen. Reid has a long legislative record on issues important to the Hispanic community. He works every day to create jobs, strengthen our classrooms, and ensure that every Nevadan has an opportunity to make it in America," said Reid campaign spokesman Jose Dante Parra. “Sharron Angle, in what can only be described as an act of desperation, has now decided that in order to win she needs a group she has used as a punching bag for so long. Let the DC handler makeover begin!"

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