Raw Story:
The campaign of Republican Congressional hopeful Tan Nguyen, hoping to unseat Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), is the focus of an investigation by the state attorney general into a mailing designed to suppress Latino voter turnout, RAW STORY has learned.
The letters, obtained by RAW STORY earlier this week, were sent to approximately 14,000 Democratic voters in California's Orange County, and warned recipients that “if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time.”
However, that warning is not entirely true.
Read, "mostly lies." Immigrants can vote if they're naturalized citizens. Children of illegal immigrants born in the US are citizens.
According to the L.A. Times, "...the letter's assertion that the state had developed a computer system that would make it easy to track down immigrants and illegal residents is also false."
Nguyen denies being behind the letter, which is exactly what anyone who sent it would do, judging by the reaction to it.
State and local Republicans and Democrats have come down hard on the letter. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger described it as “a hate crime” and the chairman of the Orange County Republican Party called on the originator of the mail, if it is ruled to be a crime, to be prosecuted.
Some dirty tricks are so egregious and transparent that there's no way they can pan out.
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