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GOP gov hopeful Medina to advertise en español
Republican Debra Medina says she’ll be the first candidate in the 2010 governor’s race with Spanish-language TV ads.
In the 30- and 60-second spots, which she says will start airing Saturday on Univision in the Rio Grande Valley, Corpus Christi and Laredo, Medina tells viewers that she’s like them: a proud Texan.
In the ads (see below), an announcer says that Medina “shares our values about the importance of family, hard work and faith. She also understands that the money we work so hard to earn should be for us and not for more taxes.”
The announcer calls Medina “alguien como nosotros” — “someone like us.”
Medina, who doesn’t sound at all like a native Spanish speaker, says: “Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” The ad then shows Medina with her husband and two children.
Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian, she told my colleague Gardner Selby last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture,” she wrote.
But before she explained that, she told Selby, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”
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By PicklesS
November 4, 2009 8:15 PM | Link to this
These four counties where this ad is running produced less than 12,000 votes in the last GOP gubernatorial primary. And of those 12,000, how many were spanish speaking?
Oh, maybe THREE.
Poor Debbie. Poor big, dumb Debbie.