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AP: Sanchez says she ‘did not intend to offend anyone’

The Associated Press
Posted: 09/24/2010

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez says she didn’t intend to offend anyone when she told a reporter in a Spanish-language interview that “the Vietnamese” and Republicans were trying to take her seat in Congress.

Sanchez said Friday she “used a poor choice of words that some people have taken as offensive” in an interview with Jorge Ramos on Univision’s Sunday morning show, “Al Punto.” She said she apologizes if she offended anyone with her remarks.

She also referred to her opponent, Republican Assemblyman Van Tran, as “very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic,” in the interview. The Orange County Register reported Thursday that Tran had asked for an apology.

His campaign manager said Sanchez’s comment on national television was an attack against immigrants and the Vietnamese community.

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