She just announced her campaign on Thursday, and she's running against popular California Attorney General Kamala Harris. You'd think she'd be slightly more circumspect.
But you know, Democrats are America's longstanding party of racist hatred, so no one should be surprised here.
At the Sacramento Bee, "Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez appears to disparage American Indians."
And Kamala Harris wastes no time in pouncing on Sanchez's racist faux pas, at LAT, "Kamala Harris calls Loretta Sanchez's Native American 'war cry' shocking":
Some of the dynamics likely to animate the U.S. Senate campaign in the months ahead were evident at the state Democratic Party convention in Anaheim on Saturday.. More, "Loretta Sanchez's public image a factor in Senate race":
Immediately after state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris held an afternoon news conference, she was asked by reporters to respond to a joke that U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez had made about the difference between Indian Americans and Native Americans.
Sanchez had tapped her hand to her mouth in an imitation of a Native American "war cry," a reporter said, causing Harris' eyebrows to lift.
Outside, Sanchez's Mambos and Margaritas event was getting underway, but the festive mood was undercut somewhat when she was asked about the joke.
"I got a call from somebody ..., and he said I want to talk to you about having help from the Indian community, and I thought he meant the American Indian community, in the sense of the Native American Indian community," Sanchez explained.
One reporter asked her if the "war cry" gesture was appropriate.
"Well, I think Native Americans have an incredibly great history, and a great presence in our country, and many of them are supporting our election," Sanchez said before turning her back on him.
One of the first questions facing Rep. Loretta Sanchez in her newly announced U.S. Senate bid is whether the kind of attention she has won while in Congress could weigh down her campaign."Eccentricities."
On occasion, the Orange County Democrat has made fellow party members wince.
In 2000, Sanchez embarrassed party leaders and presidential nominee Al Gore by scheduling a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion during the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
Joe Andrew, then party chairman, told Sanchez in a public letter that Democrats and women’s groups found the planned gathering at the Holmby Hills estate of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner to be “neither appropriate nor reflective of our party’s values.”
At Gore’s behest, the party took away Sanchez’s convention speaking slot. Before long, Sanchez backed down and moved her sold-out event to B.B. King's Blues Club at Universal Studios' CityWalk.
Sanchez has also made headlines with cheeky Christmas cards. For years, they featured Gretzky, her white cat. One card showed Sanchez, wearing pink flannel pajamas, snuggling in bed with Gretzky. Another showed the congresswoman in a tank top on a motorcycle, with Gretzky perched on the handlebars.
Sanchez’s public image has left some party strategists skeptical of her prospects in a race against state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, the top Democrat in the contest so far.
“There’s a genuine hunger for a history-making Latino candidate in this race, but Loretta Sanchez is probably not the answer to that hunger,” said Democratic strategist Roy Behr, a former campaign advisor to Sen. Barbara Boxer.
“One could call her actions eccentric, or courageously charting her own path, or bad political judgment. But they’re not actions that enhance someone’s ability to run a credible Senate campaign. They won’t help with donors. They won’t help with other elected leaders,” Behr said.
Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, differed, suggesting that Sanchez fit California’s tradition of sometimes defying political conventions. He recalled the election of semanticist S.I. Hayakawa to the U.S. Senate in 1976 and of Hollywood dancer and actor George Murphy in 1964.
“You need to capture the public’s imagination, and I think her eccentricities will really help her,” said Guerra, who nonetheless described Harris as the favorite...
Right. Racist eccentricities, which is standard for the racist Democrat Party.
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