{"id":4573,"date":"2009-08-17T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-17T01:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T01:08:00","slug":"She-s-Baaaccckkk-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"She’s Baaaccckkk!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember beautiful Betty Brown<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Republican State Representative, Betty Brown of Terrell, announced her bid to run for re-election to House District 4,<\/strong> indicating she has no worries about being a high priority target of a large, national based Asian-American organization known as the Asian Political Leadership Fund.
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You’ll recall that the twelve year incumbent made news by demonstrating her, and her Party’s level of intolerance during Voter Suppression Committee hearings this past spring, by interrupting Ramey Ko <\/strong>and his testimony with this bigoted remark:<\/p>\n

"Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese – I understand it’s a rather difficult language – do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?"
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According to Capitol Inside<\/strong>, the Asian Political Leadership Fund<\/strong> intends to launch television advertising against the intolerant Republican utilizing the following script:<\/p>\n

"The world should see Texas as a big, modern, important state with the twelfth largest economy on earth.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, some of our politicians still seem pretty small.<\/p>\n

Betty Brown – she made national news when she said U.S. citizens with Asian names should give up their birthright in order to vote.<\/p>\n

If Texas is going to play a bigger role on the world stage, shouldn’t our leaders be bigger, too?"
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Matt Glazer rightfully pointed out in April of this year that Asian-Americans<\/strong> are a growing population in Texas. Clearly the remarks by ultra-conservative Brown have drawn the community’s ire–and rightfully so. Brown has indicated that she intends to keep Voter Suppression as one of her top issues in her platform for re-election as a Republican in 2010—that, and say "no" all the time versus proposing constructive, forward-thinking legislation to solve problems of every day Texans. <\/p>\n

The question is who will the Asian Political Leadership Fund<\/strong> actively back? In 2008, Brown easily won re-election to a sixth term in defeating former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Victor Morales. Where Brown ran into deep trouble was in the Republican Primary, where she squeaked by with only 52.5% of the vote. Will this national Asian-American organization back a Republican challenger or hold their gun powder for a general election?<\/strong> My bet is that the Leadership Fund<\/strong> will do whatever it takes, primary or general, to knock the intolerant Terrell Republican off the ballot. <\/p>\n

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