[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 24, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7737]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           LET ELECTION IN 46TH DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA STAND

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, I know a little something about snatching 
victory from the jaws of defeat. All over this country, so-called folks 
in the know counted me out. And in the 46th District of California the 
same thing happened. Nobody gave Loretta Sanchez a chance of beating 
the infamous Bob Dornan. But she won in an election fair and square. 
But stung by the fact that he lost to a woman, he has not given up the 
fight. One would think he would just declare his intention to run in 
the next election, but no, not this Bob Dornan. And no, not this 
Republican Party. They have conducted a well-organized witch-hunt that 
is insulting to America's values. They have targeted every Hispanic 
voter as if they did not have the right to vote. And the Republican 
leadership has sided with Dornan over the people of the 46th District. 
Could it be that they think that Hispanic voters do not count?
  The Republicans would have us believe that they have changed, that 
they have mellowed. Unless they stop the race baiting now, they will 
prove themselves to be what we always suspected all along.

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