May 6, 2001
I CANNOT BELIEVE THE DEGREE OF STUPIDITY. EVERY LATINO IN L.A. I ASKED IF THEY WERE GOING TO VOTE FOR VILLARAIGOSA, THEY ONLY KNEW HIM BY NAME BUT THEY NEVER FELT CLOSE TO HIM. YOU SPENT ALL YOUR RESOURCES TRYING TO COURT THE WHITE ANGLO VOTE THINKING YOU HAD THE LATINOS IN THE BACK POCKET. YOU MADE THE SAME MISTAKE AS AL GORE AND THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN --ONE WOULD THINK YOU HAD LEARNED. YOU DESERVE TO LOOSE! I REBUKE YOU, ANTONIO, YOU AND THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY --MORONS! AFTER BEING A DEMOCRAT FOR 40 YRS. I'M SWITCHING PARTIES; I JUST CAN STAND IT ANY MORE. YOU DISGRACED THE LATINO COMMUNITY.
Humberto ...
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Dear Humberto,
Last Saturday night, I attended a Graduation party in Southcentral L.A. at the house of a friend of my Latina wife who she knows from Mexico. Out of about 100 Hispanic people in attendance including a large number of "undocumented," I was the only "Anglo." I broke my promise to my wife that I would not talk politics when I heard two Hispanic men talking about how they were going to vote for Hahn. This attracted other Latino American citizens into the conversation and they too were all going to vote for Hahn. One of the men told me that he broke family tradition and became a Republican. I had heard that the percentages of American born and naturalized and educated Latino U.S. citizens vote more conservative than thought. And now I believe it.
Villaraigosa doesn't represent Americans like these men and women I met at the party. He represents illegal aliens, Mexican Nationalists, and what I call the Paizano voters. No doubt the leftist press will inject racism as the reason Villaraigosa lost. But they're wrong -- it is because of his politics (by no stretch of the imaginagion am I saying that Hahn's politics are good). Villaraigosa became arrogantly confident because he was in the California Assembly and for two years, Speaker. He got to the assembly because a Latino district voted for him. But he didn't reckon with a mixed Los Angeles vote because Los Angeles isn't yet a concentration of "Paizano" voters. He would have had a better chance running for congress than for mayor. That is why, in addition to scrutinizing other Los Angeles politicians, I will keep grinding on Villaraigosa to prevent him from gaining a foothold in some other State or U.S. position.
Sincerely,
Hal Netkin
