Hispanics, Matney in tiff over radio show comments in Dakota City, Nebraska

Posted on: September 7th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Politics ]
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She said that when asked on-air if there should be some Latinos on the task force, Matney replied that they probably wouldn’t want to be on it because they “tend to be militant and tend to take the side of illegal immigrants.

“A week after Dakota County ” Attorney (i guess like a DA but for the town) “Edward Matney was heard on KSCJ radio’s morning talk show “Open Line” discussing his plan to form a county task force to tackle the problems of gangs, graffiti and drugs, which he said increase with illegal immigrant populations, he had an issue of his own.

Seven people, most of them leaders in the local Hispanic business community and all of them U.S. citizens or possessing permanent resident status, were outside Matney’s office demanding to see him as a group. They included Norma DeLaO, Tony Gomez, Adriana Dungan, Lupita Lopez, Sonia Villalpando, Abril Garcia, all of Dakota County, and Teresa Wolff of Woodbury County.”

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