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StumblePublished Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 | 11:33 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 | 3:28 p.m.
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Updated at 3:26 p.m.
A Republican campaign ad urging Latinos not to vote was yanked from the airwaves Tuesday amid an outcry from Democrats that it was a dirty trick against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in his hotly contested race against Republican Sharron Angle.
Reid sought to link the ad to Angle as the ad drew a harsh rebuke from President Barack Obama, Hispanic leaders and candidates from both parties in Nevada. Angle's opponents also pounced on the tea party favorite for her comments to Hispanic high school students that "some of you look a little more Asian to me."
"Listen to her latest, running ads on Hispanic television telling people not to vote," Reid said. "She is trying to keep people from voting." - The Associated Press
Published at 11:33 a.m.
Republican candidate for governor Brian Sandoval blasted an ad that tells Hispanic voters to stay home.
Sandoval, looking to become the state's first Hispanic governor, issued a statement calling for the ad to be taken down.
Latinos for Reform, headed by a conservative activist, is airing the Spanish-language ad telling voters to register their unhappiness with Democrats' inaction on immigration reform by not voting.
Sandoval, in a statement, called the ad outrageous.
“The television ad imploring Hispanics not to vote should be taken down immediately," he said. "No voter should have their right to vote suppressed or denied.”
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, running for re-election against Sharron Angle, sees Hispanics as a key base of support in his tight election. Sandoval is running against Harry Reid's son, Rory Reid, for governor.
Robert Deposada, a conservative political consultant, told Politico that the ad is "a sincere effort to express Hispanic frustration with the Democrats failure to deliver on immigration reform."
The Nevada State Democratic Party has called on Angle to also disavow the ad.
Hispanics should follow the lead of Governor Brian Sandoval...
Sandoval is a total hypocrite and will do anything to get elected. The legal mind that worked to over-ride the 60% requirement to raise taxes, now is anti-tax. His tax plan? Push the tax increases over to local government. Increased taxes? "I didn't do it, they did."
He runs from his heritage when it hurts him, and embraces it when it helps him.
Is he going to be at the tea party bigot rally at "Stoney's" with Sheriff Joe Arpaio this evening?
I've never seen Sandoval's birth certificate, why doesn't he post it on the net like Obama?
Well at least he will never be President, because the teaparty bigots that he now embraces won't vote for him in the Republican primary.
Isn't Sandoval for driver's licenses for illegals????
I guess this discussion topic has changed from "Take down Hispanic voter suppression ad" to bash Brian Sandoval at all costs...
Good for Sandoval. Voter suppression is a vile evil no matter who it benefits.
The AP wire has stories saying the ad is being pulled.
I just wonder what percentage of these hispanics are even legally registered to vote ? ? ? ?
Harry Reid has a strong record in defense of minorities. There was no immigration reform because the republicans smelled blood after the Arizona law, and pulled from the table to leave democrats holding the potato. Not to worry, why hispanics may not know what the democrats will do to help them, they have a pretty clear idea of what the republicans promise to do to hurt them, including treating those of us, here legally, as second class citizens. HISPANICS GO VOTE NOW MORE THAN EVER. I'm already signed up to get on the bus.
The return of Majority Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Senator Boxer (D-CA) to Washington means expedited--MASS AMNESTY--for the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in the first session of Congress. Democrats have voted to join --YOUR--Social Security and pension with illegal alien workers. According to the non-profit think-tank The Heritage Foundation, the cost will be $2.6 TRILLION DOLLARS to taxpayers. We are already taxed for illegal alien children education, for their health care and a overrun prison population. How much more does the Democrats want from us in taxes; immigration airline junkets from all across the globe, so they don't have criminally steal into America anymore? GOOGLE--more facts and answers on the Internet, then you decide your future. Taxpayers in Nevada and California have been whiplashed by higher taxes on a State level, to subsidize illegal immigrant. Acknowledge that Nevada and California have huge unemployment and billions of dollars in damaging state deficits. Remember we already have a $13 TRILLION DOLLAR US GOVERNMENT DEFICIT. Help fight corruption in Congress by joining THE TEA PARTY.
Gubernatorial Jerry Brown has identified himself as a Pro-Amnesty elected official, unlike Meg Whitman who is against any Path to Citizenship, Amnesty and cutting off welfare and cash payments to illegal aliens. Be observant and watch for violations of our voting laws by illegal aliens. A massive voter fraud in Houston, TX, proves the deceiving momentum of registrations by the Liberal fringe and extremists. American citizens must work together to require proof of citizenship to register to vote and require a photo identification card when casting a ballot. Citizens must demand such a plan to defend the integrity of General elections and secure the civil rights of voters. It's for sure that Election officials will be watching vigilantly and inspecting carefully absentee ballots for violations of the law, specifically in border states with millions of illegal aliens.
Hey MRED...you are a bonehead.. so you think the ad should continue or do you think Sandoval is an illegal allien? Either way you are WRONG !!
After reading some of these commentators attacks on Sandoval, I am convinced that it is nearly impossible for some people to remove their partisan blinders.
If Sandoval remained silent about the ad, these same commentators would be chastising him for insulting his heritage with pandering. When he does the right thing and comes out against the ad (even when the likely targets of the ad will vote for Rory), the above commentators chastise him for pandering and hypocrisy.
Sad.
About 12% of Nevada's electorate is Hispanic and Harry Reid has made it clear that his strategy is to turn out the Hispanic vote for him and he is willing to do anything to get it.