VivirLatino

Greetings from the great state of California, where some members of a certain infamous county’s GOP think it’s okay to threaten people over mail and scare them away from the polls. They aren’t getting away with it, though.

It seems that a Vietnamese immigrant running for Congress (check out the awesome photo of him after the jump, courtesy of his website) on the Republican ticket in Orange County thought that sending anti-immigrant hate mail to Latino voters would be a productive way to sway the polls his way:

State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said.

“We have identified where we believe the mailing list was obtained,” said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

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