Spanish-language newspapers in Nevada agree: Nevada GOP U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle is not their friend.
“In all of our existence as a publication we have never supported one candidate over another. But the language and strong images against our community expressed by Mrs. Angle obligates us to defend our people,” the newspaper Prensa Latina Las Vegas said, in translation.
Spanish-language newspapers in Nevada have made it clear Angle is not the candidate the Latino community should be voting for. They criticize Angle for supposedly wanting to eliminate Social Security, opposition to the DREAM Act and support for Arizona’s strict new immigration law. In contrast, they claim that her opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is a friend of Nevada’s Latino community.
“Sharron Angle ignores us, she doesn’t want to meet with us and she doesn’t want anything to do with us,” Hernando Amaya, editor of El Tiempo Las Vegas, told The Daily Caller. “[Harry Reid] has always been here, he comes on the weekends when he isn’t in session and spends time with the community. He is someone who has always supported the Hispanic community.”
Editor of La Prensa Latina, Armando Nevárez, told TheDC that Angle has taken a “radical position” against Hispanics in Nevada and claims the Republican candidate supports profiling not only illegal immigrants but all immigrants.
Reid is also targeting Latino voters by airing ads on Latino radio stations, saying, “If Sharron Angle wins, our kids lose.” The ads also criticize Angle for being unsupportive of the Hispanic community.
Angle’s campaign did not return a request for comment. She currently holds a narrow lead over Reid according to the Real Clear Politics average.