Lost in the translation.(Devil in the Details)
American Prospect, The, October, 2003
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION by the possibility that the millions the Republicans have invested in the California recall will result in the replacement of Democrat Gray Davis by Democrat Cruz Bustamante, the rightwing spin machine has kicked into overdrive, pushing the notion that the painfully moderate Bustamante is, in fact, the leader of a Chicano supremacist movement plotting the secession of the southwestern United States and its reunification with Mexico.
To reach this conclusion, one has to ignore Bustamante's entire record of public service and focus instead on his membership ...
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