{"id":6340,"date":"2010-10-01T01:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T06:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6340"},"modified":"2010-10-01T01:43:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T06:43:16","slug":"the_home_stretc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/the_home_stretc\/","title":{"rendered":"The home stretch for Manan"},"content":{"rendered":"

My cousin Manan, who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 6th<\/span> District of Pennsylvania<\/a>, is in the home stretch. Every dollar counts<\/a> at this point in his bid to upset the Republican incumbent Jim Gerlach.<\/p>\n\n

This is the same Jim Gerlach who began race baiting earlier in the campaign:<\/p>\n\n

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Trivedi, who has already raised more than $390,00 dollars as a traditional candidate, in part by tapping a wealthy network of politically-minded Indian Americans in Pennsylvania, is now facing off against Republican incumbent Jim Gerlach (pictured above). Recently, Gerlach launched attacks against Trivedi, saying that he “doesn’t share our values.”<\/p>\n

And whose values are those? One guess.\n

When concerns were raised that the Gerlach campaign’s statement could be perceived as playing on Trivedi’s ethnic differences compared to the average Pennsylvanian voter’s (85% of Pennsylvania’s residents are White), Gerlach dismissively said, “The only one who has played the race card here is him, by going to Indian-American groups to raise money.”\n

Wait, what?\n

The logic being used by Gerlach is that Trivedi shouldn’t lobby Indian-American groups, because (somehow) this is racist<\/span><\/font>. [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

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p>And this is the same Gerlach who is making the number one issue in his Pennsylvania district…the New York City Mosque. You know, because Manan has brown skin so why not make that the central issue?<\/p>\n\n

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The headline of the news release was: “Despite Inquiries, Trivedi Silent for Over a Week on Mosque Issue.”\n

Mr. Trivedi is Hindu. “That’s what I put on my dog tags when I was in the Navy,” he often says. But supporters of Mr. Trivedi said the news release about the mosque was intended to suggest that Mr. Trivedi was Muslim, an assertion that the Gerlach campaign denied. [NYTimes<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

So this is it. If you ever intended to donate your time as a volunteer<\/a> or make a monetary contribution<\/a>, now is the time as it is the end of the quarter filing deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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