[Calif.] GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari attacks affirmative action

[alp227]

Source: Oakland Tribune

BERKELEY -- The recent legislative effort to restore affirmative action in public university admissions "should've been called the 'There are too many Asians at Berkeley' bill," Republican candidate for governor Neel Kashkari told several hundred Cal students Wednesday.

Democrats "will never come out and say to you there are too many Asians at Berkeley, but that's what the bill was all about," Kashkari said of Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, recently shelved by Sacramento lawmakers after an outcry from many Chinese-American parents, who fear affirmative action would make it harder for their children to get into top schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA.

The comments came as Kashkari, an asset manager from Laguna Beach and former U.S. Treasury Department official, pitched his platform -- including the K-12 and higher education plan he unveiled a day earlier -- to students in a UC Berkeley political science seminar.

Kashkari, an Indo-American, continues a busy schedule of campaign visits around the state, even as he trails Republican rival Tim Donnelly and Gov. Jerry Brown while lacking enough money to stage anything more than a carefully targeted ad blitz in the race's final weeks.

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[JI7]

1. this asshole is running for governor ? i guess this is good news

"he trails Republican rival Tim Donnelly and Gov. Jerry Brown while lacking enough money to stage anything more than a carefully targeted ad blitz in the race's final weeks."

and unlike other republican indian americans like jindal and haley this guy has not converted to christianity . i can't see republicans nominating a hindu.

also, he is from ohio so i don't know why he is running in california. i think he just moved to california like a year ago.

[alp227]

2. Tim Donnelly, a transphobic Tea Party nut, would be better news.

Sorry there just aren't enough crazy right wing voters in CA to outnumber the progressives and moderates who will go for Jerry.

[JI7]

4. i assumed he was running in ohio

and thought the jerry brown was someone else with the same name.

but now that i know it's california i feel better because none of the republicans have any chance against Brown so this doesn't worry me at all.

[tofuandbeer]

3. It's going to be entertaining watching the GOP blame the drought on Brown.

[mackerel]

5. To be fair most Asian's, Democrat or Republican, are against Affirmative Action in California.

(I hadn't heard the term Indo-American before. Most of my Indian friends consider themselves Asian.)

[OnyxCollie]

6. CashCarry needs to go back to the wilderness, again. nt

[vlakitti]

7. Last I read, Mr.Neel Kashkari was getting like 4% of the state vote.

My neighbor's cat could probably get as many votes as Mr. Kashkari and she hasn't opened her mouth on "entrepreneurship" or other fundamentalist Republican cliches.

Meanwhile, the real California Republicans are flocking to some anti-Mexican gun-nut bigot with a talent for kill-'em-all rhetoric. Seriously.

Also meanwhile, allegedly-Democratic Governor Jerry Brown is pursuing a real jerk screw-the-poor politics but as he is frequently capable of seeming halfway sane, he'll get reelected.

And the San Francisco Chronicle is salivating over the neo-liberal Brown so the rich won't have their nights disturbed, so that's all right.

[lostincalifornia]

8. no surprise from can and carry, he is a typical wall street republican who wants to deregulate

everything