New York Republican Mike Lawler questioned the citizenship status of a Latino county official at a public meeting.
“I assume you’re a citizen. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you are.”
José Alvarado, the vice chair of Westchester County’s Board of Legislators, is a US citizen. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-mike-lawler-questions-citizenship-status-latino-official-rcna192750
@tusk81 Lawler was the guy who used blackface for his 2006 Michael Jackson Halloween costume.
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lawler-blackface-congress-election-d4c0a6d80844c48b0860892c1ffa0037
U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler said he was sorry after the New York Times obtained photos of him wearing blackface about two decades ago at a college Halloween costume party where he dressed as Michael Jackson. The images emerged Thursday as Lawler, a first-term Republican, is locked in a competitive reelection bid for his congressional seat in New York’s Hudson Valley. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lawler described himself as a Jackson super fan who was attempting to pay homage to the pop star. Blackface minstrelsy took hold in New York City in the 1830s and became popular among post-Civil War whites, though it was regarded as offensive from the beginning of its use.
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