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Former Clinton Secretary of Transportation & Energy Federico Peña was stumping for Rep. Betsy Markey in the Denver area. As Ms. Markey looked on, Sec. Peña told the crowd:
You know we’ve seen in this country historically, when strange things happen because people get carried away with the media, and they get carried away with myths, and they get carried away with fear. We saw what happened to Asian Americans in this country, very very long ago with the Asian exclusion laws, and everybody thought that was the right thing to do. And then during WWII, we put Japanese Americans in camps all over the county, thought it was the right thing to do. Everybody got carried away with the emotion of the day. We thought they were somehow, you know, terrorists… And we see this happen in other countries, I won’t give you the history. And that’s happening in our country today.
Upon finishing his speech with the Obama campaign Spanish catch-phrase, Sí se puede, Peña embraces Candidate Markey, who is clearly unfazed by the former Clinton cabinet member’s patently offensive historical comparison.
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