MN-02: GOP Staffer Caught On Camera Yelling About "Jap" Cars

[RamboLiberal]

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/sep/20/mn_02_kline_staffer_caught_on_camera_using_racial_slur

Oh, dear -- another GOPer has been caught on video spewing racial slurs. Who's the latest? The political director for GOP Rep. John Kline has been filmed bellowing about "Jap" cars. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has just reported that the political director, former state Rep. Mike Osskopp, was filmed by Dem activists outside an event on Sunday with Dem John Murtha, who was in the state to campaign for Coleen Rowley, the Dem challenger to Kline. The tape -- which subsequently popped up on the Inside Minnesota Politics blog -- showed Osskopp giving people a hard time for arriving in foreign-made cars. "Another Jap car," Osskopp screamed. Osskopp -- whose sister in law, as it happens, is Japanese-American -- later apologized.

[htuttle]

1. Nowdays, "Jap" cars are very likely to be built in the US...

...while "US" cars are likely to be built in Mexico.

[Greeby]

2. If anyone wants to send some support to Coleen Rowley

http://www.coleenrowley.com/ :patriot:

[hurricaneric]

3. Cons are routinely racist and biggoted.

I have this infatuatio with Yahoo! discussion boards and this kind of filth regularly eases its way into Republican posts.

[flying_wahini]

4. i'm always surprised that they don't know any better,

you would think that they wouldn't be such racists and bigots but they can't
help themselves, i guess they have been thinking that way for so long - just like
diarrhea of the mouth, or perhaps it is
more like a poisoned soul.
anyway, they don't care how it sounds

:banghead:

[OregonDem]

5. So..are they going to hold an ethnic rally?

n/t

[dflprincess]

6. I heard from someone who was at that rally

that Kline's supporters were also yelling "Traitors" at the people going into the rally.

Inside the rally, the crowd was asked how many attending were veterans and at least half the people there raised their hands.

John Kline is a former Marine whose claim to fame is that he carried the nuclear codes for Reagan. He is, no surprise, a big supporter of Bush and his war. He has a 0% rating from Disabled American Veterans.

[samsingh]

7. more repug values