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In a conference call with reporters today, Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra said the ad is only “insensitive to Debbie Stabenow and her spending.”
The Michigan chapter of the group Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote called the spot “very disturbing” and said the campaign “chose to use harmful negative stereotypes that intrinsically encourage anti-Asian sentiment.”
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins