Why is the press trying to erase GOP congressional winner Young Kim from all the 'Year of the Woman' hoopla? americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/w…
The Associated Press reports that as of yesterday at 12:05 p.m., and with 100% of the ballots counted, Kim beat her competitor, Gil Cisneros, 51.3% to 48.7%, taking 76,956 votes to her opponent's 73,077.
The York Times reports the same. That pretty well gave CBS time to include her.
Nope, no coverage. As the Stalinists did it, she's a "non-person."
Nope, no coverage. As the Stalinists did it, she's a "non-person."
And that's rather disgusting. Most Republicans don't play the identity politics game, and that includes the conservative Kim, given that she won the election based on her ideas, not her femininity let alone race.
Note that she didn't even win in a Korean- or even Asian-majority district. She won in California's District 39, which has as many Latinos as it does Asians, each group amounting to about one quarter of her electorate.
Vacated by GOP congressman Ed Royce, it includes Orange County, LA County and San Bernardino County, with lots and lots of immigrants from all over (the kind who set up businesses, buy homes, and make their kids do their homework) as well as Reagan country conservatives.
Her opponent, by contrast, was a well-known machine pol of the Highway 710 corridor's "Latino mafia," who moved to the district only last year, presumably to run for the seat.
He was best known as the guy who somehow won a $266 million "Megamillions" lottery in 2010, and was a creature of the Sacramento power structure with its "illegals first" philosophy. He had both political clout and a lot of bucks, and he'd been around.
You can see why people wouldn't want to vote for him, even outside his being a Democrat.
Other narratives Kim has blown apart is that Orange County is going blue because of Asian immigrants. No, and no, on both fronts.
This isn't the only press coverage that seeks to downplay what Kim has accomplished. The @LATimes reports that 51.3%-48.7% victory might just be too narrow to count as a victory,
