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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon Young, "It was a poor choice of words." & "meant no disrespect,"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/29/don-young-migrant-slur-republican-reaction/2035161/WASHINGTON GOP Rep. Don Young of Alaska apologized Friday for using a racial slur to describe migrant farmworkers after being denounced by top Republicans for "offensive" language as the party tries to boost its standing with Hispanics.
"I apologize for the insensitive term," Young, a House member since 1973, said in a statement. "There was no malice in my heart or intent to offend; it was a poor choice of words."
In an interview this week with an Alaska radio station, Young used the word "wetbacks" and said the term had been commonly used when he was growing up on a ranch in central California. He issued a statement late Thursday saying he had "meant no disrespect," but the reaction throughout the day had been heated from both parties particularly from his own Republican leadership.
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Don Young, "It was a poor choice of words." & "meant no disrespect," (Original Post)
Botany
Mar 2013
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datasuspect
(26,591 posts)1. dear rep young
chinga tu madre, pinche cabron.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)2. I see the GOP's newer, better outreach program is in full swing!
I wonder where this fits in with Preibus's election post-mortem.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)3. He said "that word should be left behind in the 20th century". So saying it in 1999 was OK???
(or 2000 for us nerds, because we know the millennium actually started in 2001)
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)4. This 'accident' tells you where this word sits in his vocabulary toolbox. nt
Just an accident just like Rick Santorum's calling Obama a Government N****r.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)6. They give themselves away so easily
And they think they're quite clever.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)7. Stupid bastard.
I am unsympathetic.