Sandoval: "My children don't look Hispanic."
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:07 pm
A few muted words supposedly on a tape in the vaults of a Spanish television network have given Rory Reid's campaign for Nevada governor an unexpected and badly needed jolt.
Reid, chairman of the Clark County Commission, Nevada's largest county, has seized on a claim that his Republican opponent, Brian Sandoval, made a crass comment about his support for the Arizona immigration law during an interview with Univision.
Asked how he'd feel if his children were stopped and asked for their papers, Sandoval was quoted as saying: "My children don't look Hispanic."
The quote was first published by Univision News Director Adriana Arevalo in a column critical of Sandoval, who is Hispanic. The offense was allegedly made during an interview with a Univision reporter at the network's Las Vegas studio.
Sandoval has said he doesn't recall uttering those words, and Univision has clamped down on the material. At first, the company told Nevada-based political reporter John Ralston that it is work product. It then claimed there was no audio on the tape.
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Reid, chairman of the Clark County Commission, Nevada's largest county, has seized on a claim that his Republican opponent, Brian Sandoval, made a crass comment about his support for the Arizona immigration law during an interview with Univision.
Asked how he'd feel if his children were stopped and asked for their papers, Sandoval was quoted as saying: "My children don't look Hispanic."
The quote was first published by Univision News Director Adriana Arevalo in a column critical of Sandoval, who is Hispanic. The offense was allegedly made during an interview with a Univision reporter at the network's Las Vegas studio.
Sandoval has said he doesn't recall uttering those words, and Univision has clamped down on the material. At first, the company told Nevada-based political reporter John Ralston that it is work product. It then claimed there was no audio on the tape.
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