Senator Harry Reid is taking some political shots from conservative Hispanics after a comment he made on the immigration reform debate.
The Nevada Democrat is quoted in the Las Vegas Review Journal as saying, "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.. Ok. Do i need to say more?."
He reportedly made the remark in a room packed with Hispanic voters while voicing his frustration with Republicans over immigration reform.
Wednesday, the President of the Hispanic leadership responded.
Mario H. Lopez wrote, "Harry Reid has offered little to the Hispanic community except government dependency radical job-destroying economic policies and direct attacks on our values. [He] even voted for poison pill amendments to kill immigration reform in 2007. Harry Reid wanting to anoint himself as some sort of authority on what it means to be Hispanic is the height of arrogance."
Senator Reid release the following statement:
"Sen. Reid has long enjoyed the support of many Hispanic Republicans in Nevada and he appreciates that support. Sen. Reid's contention was simply that he doesn't understand how anyone, Hispanic or otherwise, would vote for Republican candidates because they oppose saving teachers' jobs, oppose job-creating tax incentives for small businesses, oppose investments in job-creating clean energy projects, and oppose the help for struggling, unemployed Nevadans to put food on the table and stay in their homes.
Nevadans are suffering in this economy. Senator Reid was rightly pointing out that Republicans like Sharron Angle who oppose job-creating measures and unemployment benefits, oppose emergency aid to save 1200 Nevada teachers, and who want to wipe out critical programs like Social Security and Medicare, are part of the problem, not part of the solution."
- Senator Harry Reid
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