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Cock-A-Doodle-Nativo!

I'm glad to see that Nativo Lopez has some sense of shame. As word spreads across the Internet about his advocacy of cock-fighting, Nativo has responded by scrubbing any references to the bloodthirsty sport from the website of his organization MAPA:

Though it’s difficult to question the logic of a person/weather system who believes that laws regarding a “sport” where small animals outfitted with tiny razors fight to the death amount to “atrocities,” the fact is that MAPA may have already retrenched from its earlier, Lopez-inspired position of support. Apparently Arellano and Jubal’s pieces made it around the Internet. Now the MAPA website, which once called SB156 “unnecessary” and “mean-spirited,” does not mention cockfighting at all.

Michael Fumento On Nativo Lopez

Michael Fumento is one of the best conservative columnists in the business, the true heir to Warren T. Brookes as a professional, fact-checking, thoroughly-researching opinion journalist.

Yesterday he trained his sights on a favorite topic, Nativo Lopez, who makes the terms "shameless race-baiting" seem like an understatement.

Latino Race Baiting

Geoff Metcalf relays the tragic tale of Nativo Lopez, race-baiter extraordinaire.

"What A Racist Thing To Say!...Oh Wait, You're Liberal. No Problem."

Here is an excellent article by Bill Saracino in California Political Review Online on Democrat's coddling racists like Nativo Lopez. The hypocrisy of the Left knows no bounds.

Nativo Lopez And Cockfighting

File this under "W" for way weird:

Nativo Lopez: On His Way To Being The Don King Of Cock Fighting?

When I first saw Gustavo's item on Nativo's secret love of cockfighting, I thought it was a casual comment by Senor Larry. Some Googling revealed that Nativo Lopez really, really, really loves cockfighting and his MAPA is working hand in glove with California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl (APG).

At Cockfightsonline.com -- yes, there is such a site -- someone named "Tornado" described the action at the 2004 California APG annual convention last November:

We then welcomed Nativo Lopez, National President of MAPA(Mexican American Political Association) at which time he took over the floor and he too also discussed our current situation, and what it would take to join our efforts and grow our numbers and fight hand in hand against all of the attrocities commited against us. I thought it was very promising, and I encourage everyone that can to join their organization for the betterment of our sport, and legal representation, you don't have to be Mexican American to join. I'm sure we will be hearing more about this in the near future...

Since that time, Nativo Lopez has forged a close alliance with fighting cock breeders and aficionados.  In February 2005, he was rallying the forces of cock-fighting in Oklahoma:

Nativo Lopez, President of the Mexican American Political Association ,(MAPA) will be a featured speaker at our National Rally Wednesday February the 4th at 11 A.M. in the southlawn of the Oklahoma City Capitol. He represents a group of over 5 million latinos and is based in California. Mapa will soon start a chapter in Oklahoma, linking all the Latino voters across the United States into one.

You can read the rest at OC Blog.

I knew politics makes for strange bedfellows, but this is Twilight Zone strange.

Who's Living In A Glass House, Ms. Kuehl?

The Club for Growth doesn't get involved in social issues, but I thought comments by the insufferable Sen. Sheila Kuehl in today's LA Times were worthy of public scorn.

The story focused on the four undecided Assemblyman who will decide the fate of Assemblyman Mark Leno's bill legalizing same-sex marriage. One of those waverers is OC Democrat Tom Umberg, who earlier this year admitted to carrying on at least one extra-marital affair.

The oh-so-sensitive Ms. Kuehl commented thus:

Gay rights advocates say they will put up a primary challenge to Umberg if he does not support the measure. Advocates also say that Umberg is not in a strong position to join with those arguing to "preserve the sanctity of traditional marriage," given that he admitted earlier this year to an extramarital affair.

"I try not to be too personal in my assessment," Kuehl said, "but certainly people who live in glass houses shouldn't deny other people houses."

Gee, do you think Kuehl will apply that same to standard to all those pro-same-sex-marriage legislators who justify their positions by extolling the virtues of marriage? Or is it only those extol marriage in the course of opposing gay marriage who qualify as hypocrites according to the Kuehl standard.

Like you said, Senator: people who live in glass houses...

Grinding The Racial Ax

OC Blog is the premier blog in my county of residence (Orange County). It recently had a couple of posts that re-acquainted me with racial rabble-rouser Nativo Lopez, whom I assumed had faded into political oblivion following his recall from the Santa Ana Unified School Board and an internal squabble over who controlled the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional empire, such as it is (and I suppose groups such as that have a value to people such as Lopez, as a source of income that allows them to engage in full-time racial rabble-rousing).

In any case, I should know hucksters like Lopez never fade away, and apparently he has according to these columns by estimable commentators like Hugh Hewitt, Ward Connerly, and Michael Fumento.

Update: OC Blog links to another Lopez blast. It seems he's trying to shake Ameriquest for -- get this -- $1 billion dollars.