Voting Rights Chief Apologizes for Comments about Minorities - (made at this year’s National Latino Congreso)

Posted on: October 29th, 2007
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“Voting rights section chief John Tanner has apologized for saying earlier this month that “minorities don’t become elderly the way white people do: They die first.”

The apology went out to a number of attendees of the National Latino Congreso, where Tanner made the remarks. You can see one of them, to the president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, here. The letter is dated Friday, October 26, a week after Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) publicly called for Tanner to be fired based on those remarks.”*

*From: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com
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