Kasich tries to praise Latinos -- and ends up talking about tipping the hotel maid

[Mass]

Last edited Fri Sep 18, 2015, 10:46 AM - Edit history (1)

This is the articulate and sensible version of the GOP ?

So, he cannot find a woman of power to put on the $10 bill (Mother Theresa, seriously?), and now the only way he sees Latinos is as help in the hospitality industry? And that is the moderate GOP according to pundits.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-09172015-htmlstory.html

At a luncheon hosted at a posh Orange County golf club by a local political action committee, Kasich heap praise upon Latinos -- a crucial voting bloc, with 28 million expected to be eligible to vote in the 2016 election -- for family values and work ethic, but then appeared to indirectly conflate Latinos and service-industry workers.

"A lot of them do jobs that they're willing to do and, uh, that's why in the hotel you leave a little tip," said Kasich before a small group inside the Shady Canyon Golf Club, nestled in a gated Irvine neighborhood.

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Kasich went on to tell a story about his stay at a hotel in Los Angeles in recent days.

"This lady wrote me in my hotel there in L.A. She wrote this note. It said, 'I really want you to know that I care about your stay.' Is that just the greatest thing?" he said. "So, you know, we can learn a lot and she's Hispanic, 'cause I didn't know it at the time, but I met her in the hallway -- asked her if I could get a little more soap,” said a chuckling Kasich.

[beac]

1. He's the sensible one like Jeb! is the smart Bush brother.

[Fla Dem]

2. What floors me are these people are just so out of touch.

He thought that telling his little story about the Hispanic hotel worker would endear him to the Hispanic community? He only spoke with her because he needed a bar of soap. What in God's name did he learn from her in that fleeting moment? "You leave them a "little tip"! How condescending.

[Fred Sanders]

3. In a Lilly-white gated golf club community, yeah, he can get away with it...bet they ate it up.

The racists are not all hillbillies, some of the hillbillies have gotten themselves fancy lifestyles and deep pockets for politicians to pander to with heavy helpings of mutual white privilege they all see slipping away.

[azmom]

4. Esta Pendejo. N/t