{"id":12631,"date":"2010-10-01T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:04:07","slug":"eric-hogue-there-is-more-than-one-latino-assembly-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/01\/eric-hogue-there-is-more-than-one-latino-assembly-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Hogue: There Is More than One Latino Assembly Member?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is really classic GOP. Insensitivity bordering on the farcical, connecting dots that aren&#8217;t really there and a whole lot more. &nbsp;Really good stuff. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s the story, apparently an aide to Asm. Hector De La Torre had some documentation problems. &nbsp;Mr. Hogue, who is something of a nativist from his perch in Sacramento minor radio personality land, decides that this is a great opportunity to bash Jerry Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, because Asm. De La Torre has endorsed Jerry for the governorship. So, you know, every Democrat&#8217;s problems are Jerry&#8217;s problems now. &nbsp;But it gets better. &nbsp;Hogue tries to increase the connection by showing that De La Torre was quoted on Brown&#8217;s website. &nbsp;The only problem? &nbsp;It was actually Asm. Kevin De Leon who was quoted. &nbsp;Hogue has since changed the site, so here&#8217;s a screen grab that I took:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=Hogue1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/Hogue1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hogue 1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I said, <a href=\"http:\/\/hoguenews.com\/?p=12190\">the post is still up<\/a>, but it has now been changed. Unfortunately, they didn&#8217;t really clean up after themselves, and now it just doesn&#8217;t even make sense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assemblyman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrybrown.org\/node\/811\">De La Torre is quoted <\/a>&nbsp;is listed&nbsp;on Jerry Brown&#8217;s campaign website:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Southern California Latino leaders today joined together to announce their support for Jerry Brown&#8217;s campaign for Governor and decry Republican Meg Whitman&#8217;s anti-Latino positions and deceptive campaign tactics.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess when you are trying to spin this hard, sometimes you are going to confuse yourself. Or maybe to Hogue &#8220;Hector de La Torre&#8221; = &#8220;Kevin De Leon&#8221;? &nbsp;Who knows, but this immigration story just continues to control the media narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Over the flip, find a screen grab with more of the post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=Hogue2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/Hogue2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hogue 2\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really classic GOP. Insensitivity bordering on the farcical, connecting dots that aren&#8217;t really there and a whole lot more. &nbsp;Really good stuff. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s the story, apparently an aide to Asm. Hector De La Torre had some documentation problems. &nbsp;Mr. Hogue, who is something of a nativist from his perch in Sacramento minor radio personality land, decides that this is a great opportunity to bash Jerry Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, because Asm. De La Torre has endorsed Jerry for the governorship. So, you know, every Democrat&#8217;s problems are Jerry&#8217;s problems now. &nbsp;But it gets better. &nbsp;Hogue tries to increase the connection by showing that De La Torre was quoted on Brown&#8217;s website. &nbsp;The only problem? &nbsp;It was actually Asm. Kevin De Leon who was quoted. &nbsp;Hogue has since changed the site, so here&#8217;s a screen grab that I took:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=Hogue1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/Hogue1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hogue 1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I said, <a href=\"http:\/\/hoguenews.com\/?p=12190\">the post is still up<\/a>, but it has now been changed. Unfortunately, they didn&#8217;t really clean up after themselves, and now it just doesn&#8217;t even make sense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assemblyman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrybrown.org\/node\/811\">De La Torre is quoted <\/a>&nbsp;is listed&nbsp;on Jerry Brown&#8217;s campaign website:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Southern California Latino leaders today joined together to announce their support for Jerry Brown&#8217;s campaign for Governor and decry Republican Meg Whitman&#8217;s anti-Latino positions and deceptive campaign tactics.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess when you are trying to spin this hard, sometimes you are going to confuse yourself. Or maybe to Hogue &#8220;Hector de La Torre&#8221; = &#8220;Kevin De Leon&#8221;? &nbsp;Who knows, but this immigration story just continues to control the media narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Over the flip, find a screen grab with more of the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[415,9346,135,4467],"class_list":["post-12631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-9346","tag-135","tag-4467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3hJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}