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Published Friday, July 30, 2010 | 1:09 p.m.
Updated Friday, July 30, 2010 | 1:13 p.m.
In the face of the firestorm created by its news director asserting gubernatorial hopeful Brian Sandoval said his kids don’t look Hispanic, the Spanish-language station is standing by the story put out by its news director in a column and one witnessed by several staffers. But I have learned more about the circumstances under which Sandoval made the remark and why, perhaps, Univision will not release the video (besides it being work product). The station, though, apparently is considering posting the video.
Here’s the update:
Sandoval made the remark to an anchor/reporter, with several witnesses from the station right there, as the cameraman was shooting background footage (B-roll) for the interview. I am told, however, there is no audio on the video. I was originally told by someone who saw the video that the remark was there -- and, technically it may be -- but it can't be heard. (Any good lip readers out there?!)
But the reporter who did the interview and several other staffers told the news director about the conversation shortly afterward, which explains how it appeared in her column for El Tiempo. It is that column where the remark first appeared – and its vitriolic (and inappropriate for a news executive) attack on Sandoval surely has caused fits for the Univision higher-ups. Indeed, the staffers and the reporter/anchor have been asked by higher-ups and all told the same or similar stories as to what Sandoval said.
So as I suspected, the remark appears to be an offhand comment offered in a more relaxed setting than the formal interview, perhaps accounting for Sandoval’s failure to remember it, as he has claimed. But even saying his kids would not be profiled under the Arizona law because of how they look is a very careless thing to say, reminiscent of his infamous offhand remark under questioning by the Review-Journal editorial board (during his run for attorney general) about defending a hypothetical state law forcing Jews to wear Stars of David. But just as that silly answer doesn’t make him anti-Semitic, nor does this one about his kids’ appearance make him ashamed of his Hispanic appearance.
But it does provide much fodder for a Rory Reid campaign that needed a game-changer. Whether this is it or not -- despite the explosion of Rory news releases and national attention - is quite another story. Sandoval clearly is uncomfortable with the illegal immigration issue and the focus on the Arizona law, so at the very least this can be used to motivate Hispanics to vote for Reid.
More on this in my Sunday column in the Sun.
Mr Ralston,
What does this entire story have to do with getting the 14.5% of Nevadans who are unemployed back to work?
Thank you for helping distract voters from the real issues.
Making education a main theme of the campaign is silly for both candidates. It will take along time for educational improvements to help the Nevada economy. Highly educated people will head for the Pacific coast and the Northeast, where they live now.
Property tax revenue is about to drop even more and both candidates won't say where they are going to get the money to upgrade education and balance the budget.
Riveting.
I love how no one cares about education. "It will take too long to fix the economy". News flash: low education standards and a dismal talent pool are what is keeping new industries out of Nevada. Why come here and hire Nevadans when you can go somewhere with better employee candidates? Fix education and fix the economy. Don't believe me? Look at the best economies nation wide right now, and look at what colleges are there, and the high school graduation rate.
I agree. Education is a major factor in the current economy. As a manager, I will not hire anyone with less than a high school diploma, and that pool of candidates is shrinking every year. When did it become the norm to cut school funding and not pay for our services?
Sandoval is just another Gibbons. A republican puppet, looking to see how conservative he can be.
NevadaDad,
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, SIR!
A Puppet. With the Hand of Sig up his...maneuvering, you know.. the strings.
I guess Sandy's comment on his kids compares favorably to Harry's "light skinned Negro" comment.
I don't think he meant anything other than what he said.
Geez John,,,get real. Apparently you don't realize how much of an idiot you are making of yourself with all of this garbage. First, who cares what he said, and secondly, sounds like you're having to say "oops"...don't have the evidence I said we had, so it's time for Plan B. No audio, but "they all said". Give me a break.
Someone should look into Sandoval's record as a federal judge. He let motions sit for over a year because he didn't want to rule the way he knew he had to according to the law. In fact, he left motions sitting like that when he left the judgeship. He is a lazy, selfish parasite, just like Gibbons.
Just the other day, Dems and libs were whining about gotcha politics.
This is so stupid to report on but Ralston has no problems going this low for he has gone much lower before.
Ralston, what has this to do with anything? Is this another of your attemps to bash the Republican canidate? When the Sun hired you was it a term of employment that you practice bias commentary or does it just come naturally.
I believe that Reid and Sandoval are worthless candidates. If either one of them are elected you can kiss your state good bye. I do not know how someone can vote for Sandoval when he said he believes his kids do not look Hispanic and first said he favors the immigration laws in Arizona now he is back tracking and saying he does not remember. This guy is a real flake. Not to mention all of the other garbage (spookyrepublicans.com). I believe Sandoval was appointed a judgeship by Reid sr? What a mess. Reid jr. (reidallaboutit.com?) can't even run your clark county successfully and he created your fire fighter mess. Both of these candidates are wrong for your state. There has to be others running to save your state rather than screw it up more.
Education? Even when this state had money the secondary education system here was ranked at the bottom in comparison to other states. It truly is one of the poorest education programs in the country. Now you want to make it an issue?
I yanked my kid out of the secondary education system here because he was failing. They laughed at the high school he went to; like it is histerical that parent could teach their kid to learn more than they would learn at their school. I home schooled my son, and now he is a sophomore in college. He passed all of the state proficiency exams on the first try.
The one thing this economy does, is force our education program spend money wisely. Year round money burning schools were soley for the convenience of parents, and burned money faster than a wildfire.
I see no point in hiring teachers who have no experience, or financially supporting one of the highest failing rates in the country. This school system can't even teach the kids to pass the state proficiency exams.
When kids here go to school in Las Vegas, they are doing everything but learning. It is a social club and baby sitting service for lazy parents, whom don't even take an interest in their child's education.
Until they fix this weak program why dump money into a broken, worthless education system? Oh, I get it, the babysitting service is more expensive than the public school system.
I know some teachers are going to be offended, but try arguing, the numbers don't lie. To the parents: if your so worried about your child's education, then home school them!
Imagine if I told you a story where 200,000 (the unemployed) people drowned, and then I touted myself as saving 2,600 (teachers, lousy at that) of them. My name is Harry Reid and I let 197,400(the remaining unemployed) people drown in the state of NV. Get used to it. This is what a liberal spending economy is like. It will be this way until several elections have passed and people wake up.
Government does not create economically feasable jobs. Their cost for one job is hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. The private sector is where jobs need to be created. Tax and spend has NEVER worked. If the school system had run efficiently and waste free in the past, there would be plenty of money. Unfortunately, it didn't, and now we have a lot of kids going to school here, whose parents don't even pay taxes.
The transcontinental railroad, the Erie Canal, the Panama Canal, water projects, the Hoover Dam, the Interstate highway system, the nuclear test site, the mining act, Nellis, Fallon, Tonopah military bases..BASIC titanium plant, the Aviation industry in Southern California... Nevada like the USA, was built on government tax and spend.
Las Vegas would not even be on the map if it wasn't for the government dumping money here and in Southern California, where tourists and new residents come from. The libertarian loonies don't no what they are talking about.
Even the cochlear implant in Limbaugh's head was developed with government tax and spend, out at NASA and the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Sandoval's fair-skinned suburban children may never be targets of Arizona's new immigration law, but many darker-skinned working class Latinos feel that they and their children are.
Some Latinos may be upset with Sandoval for appearing not to show empathy to their situation, especially since they feel he comes from their community.
As someone like myself who is half Hispanic, Sandoval's heritage or color is irrelevant. All I see is that his policies are the same as Governor Gibbons, and that is enough for me not to vote for him.
The immigration attorneys and media keep the propaganda going. Do you always have to have id? No, last time I checked law enforcement can use you name, dob, and last four of your social. The problem is, you have to be legaly here to have a valid id in the United States. If Harry and his boys wanted to solve alot of these probelms (education, health-care, employment) create a national id system for hiring, education and health care.
nvgov- right on- until people are working again-this economy will continue to slide, despite all these politicians telling us things are getting better- where? we can give 500 million dollars to Pakistan so their spy service can train the Taliban to kill brave young Americans- while Americans are suffering here- nothing wrong with this picture