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Xavier Becerra: now almost 1 year and a half a million dollars later neutral observers are saying what everyone in this House has been…

On the recordSeptember 24, 1997
now almost 1 year and a half a million dollars later neutral observers are saying what everyone in this House has been saying for the longest of times. The people of the 46th Congressional District in California voted Bob Dornan out of office, and they voted the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] in. Yet the Republican leadership continues to waste taxpayer dollars funding Bob Dornan's election witch hunt against the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] and his customary tirades. Now we hear that the Republican leadership has a scheme to reject the vote of the people of the 46th Congressional District and to take away the job that the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] earned from the voters. The leadership on the Republican side will allege that there were too many questionable votes in the 984-vote victory of the gentlewoman from California. Who was the target of this so-called questionable voting campaign? Hispanics. Who was the target of the harassment in this investigation? Hispanic voters. It is the people of America who vote people into office; it is the people of America who vote people out. It is not witch hunts that are paid for and financed by taxpayers at the expense of those people who vote and do so. Bob Dornan does not have the right to do this at taxpayer expense. ____________________
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Xavier Becerra
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the Republican leadership's challenge to the election of Ms. Sanchez in California's 46th Congressional District.

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