Texas Mayor in Hot Water After Calling Latino Lawmakers a ‘Bunch of Mexicans’
- Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:49pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Robert Cluck, the mayor of Arlington, TX, might have accidentally stuck his boot in his mouth recently when, in idle conversation with a local council member, he referred to that member’s constituents as “a bunch of Mexicans.” The Huffington Post caught this bizarre story:
The Texas mayor approached city council member Robert Rivera outside his office on Feb. 7 in the presence of other city staff to question whether Rivera planned on attending an evening city council meeting, according to FOX 4 Local News.[...]
Cluck questioned whether Rivera — the only Hispanic council member — would be skipping the council meeting, to which Rivera explained that he would be attending the “Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Meeting” instead.
The mayor allegedly responded by saying, “Oh, a bunch of Mexicans.”
At this point, according to the complaint, [David Crow, the president of Arlington Professional Firefighters] said, “I don’t think you can say that.”
Interestingly, even though Rivera was the person the remark was addressed to, he did not file the complaint. Nor is it known who did, beyond the fact that they’re an employee of the City Council. A video report from Dallas-Fort Worth’s Fox 4 shows that Rivera, in fact, doesn’t seem to care about the comment, which Mayor Cluck says he can’t even recall saying:
Video provided by MyFoxDFW.
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Comments (138)
ssbstspd
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:49pmWOW. You cant even call them by who they are. I get called irish all the time. PC is crazy. What are we to call them ?
Report Post »“ mexican American illegal migrant worker” or sorry not Pc enogh
“ mexican American dual statist migrant worker in progress of world citezenship ”
? that would take 2 hours to say. I always thought Texas was better then this, but i guess not. PC has taken over big time everywhere.
mils
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:37pm“Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Meeting”???? WHAT THE HECK IS THAT???? Obviously they have chosen to isolate themselves…
Report Post »When other ethnic groups came over here..Italians, Irish…they felt blessed to be here..they didn’t try to change America into the hell hole they had left behind…MEXICANS/LATINOS ARE DIFFERENT.. They appear to come to this country and do their best to turn America into their own mud hole..in general..
“Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Meeting”???? Do they have a Black Elected and APpointed Officials Meeting??.
..How about an AMERICAN ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIAL MEETING?
Just so much BS
heyjim55
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 7:45pmYou can call them Liberal victim number 2 or just number 2. For example look there‘s a bunch of number 2’s down there. That way no connection is made about their race as far hispanic, mexican, latino or beaner.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:40pmI don‘t see why you can’t say that. They can call white Americans anything they want.
Our REAL problem “IS” that NO ONE wants to be civil these days. I don’t mind calling a spade a spade. Facts are facts. But when we can’t even communicate on a one on one basis with mutual respect, we have lost control of society.
Our politicians are leading this “uncivil” discourse. Leadership “IS” a difficult burden for those who struggle with the skill. Those who possess the skill and embrace the burden with relish are the best leaders. We have NONE, today.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:20pm@mils
“When other ethnic groups came over here..Italians, Irish…they felt blessed to be here..they didn’t try to change America into the hell hole they had left behind”
Yeah, I‘m sure they felt so grateful when they came here and were told that they weren’t welcome in shops or in certain neighborhoods because of their ethnicity. The main complaint people had about them? That they wouldn’t assimilate. Sound familiar?
“No Irish Need Apply” and “No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish’. There was a time when you would see these signs in the windows of businesses.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:04pm@VanceUppercut Understood. However, I think the point is that there was no Irish Caucus, Irish Elected and Appointed Officials Meeting, or Irish Republican Convention. They fought to be recognized as Americans. Period.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:33pmI have a feeling that the complaint was filed by that David Crow (who I would be willing to bet is one of those liberal wackos). What the mayor needs to do is start clamping down and charging ANY mexican who says that they are mexican-American, every single time that they use that word. I would also monitor that David Crow’s language, remember everything like I made my brain a tape recorder. If anyone doesn’t like being called what they are then they can quit crying for special attention because they are that.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 3:28amFor all you people that don’t know any better: a Latino is someone of Hispanic heritage. A Latino can be of any race or combination of races: White/Caucasian, Black/African American, Asian, Native American, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander American, or two or more races. They can ORIGINATE from 21 countries including this one. Those countries are on three continents including Europe. Many Latinos (Spaniard/Americans) have roots in this country that predate the Mayflower. They have a bit of a chip on their shoulder for people calling them Mexicans.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:26amYou left out ‘wet back’ and several other derogatory terms…………….LOL
Very good comments………….
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:13amthey would be mexicans or of mexican orgin.
Report Post »tbconrad
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:28amNo I think it was the word “bunch” indicating bunch of bananas, thus saying that the Mexicans were monkeys. If he had said “group” he might have been able to swim by… woops did I say swim as in a bunch of Mexicans swimming across the river to enter the country illegally? Oh crap I guess we should just shut up like the liberals would like us to do. Yup when I DIE!!!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:53amlatino…. do they speak latin……
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:13amThere is no such thing alive, that is a real ‘Latino”. The root of this word is [Latin]…are these idiots latin? Do they speak…LATIN? I know only two(2) words of Latin: adsume=helo; and salway=goodby…so…salway!! fake people. I was in “Latin” class in highschool for about one(1) week…learned 2-words…then dropped-out for a “study-hall”. In Latin class they were supposed to learn how to speak latin…very hard…but, not to learn their original writing/printing(1/2 of a Duh!). The people whom spoke Latin did not even live where “they-latinos” live-now.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:01amIf they put Mexican before American then GO HOME
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 3:57pm@RabidPatriot Latino is someone with Hispanic, Italian, French, or Portuguese heritage, e.g.
Report Post »descendant of white southern Europeans. The fact that other races or ethnicities have adopted the word doesn’t matter. American blacks, though having English last names and speaking English, are not Anglo-Saxon or British, or descendant from them. Indigenous people from Latin countries, though having Spanish last names and speaking Spanish, are not Hispanic or Latin. The word Latino today has been corrupted to include a variety of persons, as you have stated, though the word never originally pertained to them. Of course, Latino today also refers to those people living in Latin Nations south of the US border, ergo, anyone born in those countries are known as Latinos. Unlike America, some of these Latin people, who settled the Americas, mixed with other races and ethnicities, wherefore the confusion today.
RabidPatriot
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:14pmThe Portuguese and Brazilian people are not officially considered Latino because they speak Portuguese. Originally, it was a speaker of any Latin based romance language and a member of the Roman Catholic Church. The religious aspect was the main reason for the creation of the term to separate them from Protestants.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:45pmYou cannot call negros…negros,,,and you cannot call mexcans…….mexicans. However….in America…just don‘t call’em all late for supper. That is raaaaaacist.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 7:10pmOOPS!!!! I ruined the beans. Maybe if I refry them, nobody will notice!!!
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:34pmYep, Cluck was wrong. He has to pay the price for that. I don’t support that. (Unless I’m wrong and those latinos are actually Mexican citizens and not US citizens, but that wouldn’t be something I would assume.)
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:40pmYawn.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:49amDouble yawn.
Report Post »ConservativeChristianB1954
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:34pmWhatever happened to the phrase “Sticks and Stones?“ ”Booo hooooo, you called me a name, I’m gonna tell my mommy”. The left in this country are like a bunch of young kids. OOPS, now I will be in trouble for talking about young kids. People our of work, gas prices high, deficit is growing larger every day and all these idiots can do is act like children.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 7:11pmOne of the things the enemy uses is to be offended. It is a defense tactic that i dont back off of. If I see a Mexican, I call him a Mexican. I have been known to scream at a Mexican talking spainish trash (cuss words in spanish) in a Walmart…I dont care who I pis@ off. I am not in life to win a popularity contest..
Report Post »Evil_Empire
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:24am“I have been known to scream at a Mexican … in a Walmart.” Wow, classy.
Report Post »TexanBelle
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:31pmWell if you can’t chant USA,USA ,USA at a game in San Antonio , Texas without OFFENDING your own team. What do you expect the mayor to think about this guys constituents? Many are probably Mexicans who came with their families years ago illegally and their parents don’t have a clue what they are doing to OUR USA and confusing the rest of us!..
Report Post »waspanglosaxon
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:31pmJust another excuse for the PC/BS crowd (a.k.a. the Lunatic Left) to ‘lick grease’.
Report Post »nocalifornia
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:28pmNow if he called the “mexicans” spicks then I would understand the outcry but he called “mexicans” mexicans, so what is the issue? I get called an Italian all the time and no one is filling a complaint!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 7:14pmYou should be “Wopped” up side the head..( just kidding. Anything for a laugh)
Report Post »bitter clinger
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:27pmI belive “mexicans” is the proper term for Mexican citizens even when they are in the US.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:24pmholder is suing texas over voter id law
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:51pmHolder was involved with the congressional investigation of Waco TX, along with Joe Biden, the raid that the ATF led under Bill Clinton. Clinton later passed the Assault Weapons Ban (prohibiting semi-auto rifles). During Clinton’s administration free school zones were created, and a few other gun control laws were passed. Guess who‘s in Obama’s administration today? Biden, Holder, and Hilary Clinton. The same old crew. Hilary Clinton is now on a crusade with the UN to sign a Small Arms International Treaty to help disarm “terrorists”. However, the DHS and Napolitiano have labeled US Citizens, civilians, “domestic terrorists”. Biden called TEA partiers “domestic terrorists”. Pelosi called us Conservatives “extremists” and “Nazis”. Holder was the one supervising the ATF during the Fast and Furious gun scandal. Prior to that exposure, Hilary Clinton and Obama were blaming Americans for the illegal gun trafficking in Mexico. After the scandal came to light they hushed up.
And now we have a “LATINO Elected and Appointed Officials Meeting” and they think there isn’t any voter fraud going on? Last time I checked, America isn’t a Latin nation.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:55pmFor those interested:
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmOBNnz9Wms
The Truth About The Ruby Ridge Massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr94ELW701Q
AND let me remind you. Some folks that were in power during Clinton’s term, are still in power today, under Obama…
Wake up folks…
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:56pm*free school zones – gun free school zones
Report Post »Espada
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:23pm“Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Meeting”
Obviously attended by a bunch of Chinese ?
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:22pmwhat invasion?
was 8 to 12million back in 1986
take a wide guess how many now.
admiralty law, common law and the sovereign
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwZhU6uv9sA
Itsjusttim
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:19pmWell as that one Bible scripture says: you don‘t let someone in your house who doesn’t have your doctrine. That’s another reason America is toast because America is full of idiots.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:22pmOnly in America will you find that most of the people are more nice to complete strangers than their own children or family members. What a bunch of freaking morons who don’t really love their nation.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:25pmDo you seriously believe that praying to God is going to save America? How so, when you say and don’t do? Do you know that thinking very deeply and logically, very hard in the highest regions of your mind is actually praying?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:33pmCase in point when Jesus cast the demon out of the young boy who was brought to Jesus by his father, and the boy was convulsing while foaming at the mouth. And the disciples asked Jesus why themselves could not cast out the demon, and Jesus said because it requires prayer to make “His” come out. Jesus didn’t cast out a demon like in the movies, the boy was behaving like a beast, and Jesus caused the boy to suppress the beast-side, which brought out “His” (“His”, is after the lord) own.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:38pmBecause you skin and bones is a vessel, and if you don’t speak, and you don’t see, and if you don’t hear, then it means your spirit is not coming out to show itself outside your skin and bones, and therefore your spirit is a deaf, mute spirit.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:46pmTherefore when you know the truth but will not speak, when you see the truth and will not tell it, when you partake in abomination gladly, when you do anything that is not of “His” you are as if you have a demon.
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:57pmHello ELIASIM
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:06pm“Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Meeting”= A bunch of Irish and Koreans for sure
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:18pmsame old. same old. PC BS.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:17pmwe are being invaded and we are still talking pc bs wordplay.
admiralty law, common law and the sovereign
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwZhU6uv9sA
markgl
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:14pmI really don’t think it was in harm. Especially if he said it to the guy directly. Maybe they have the kind of banter back and forth to one another or maybe he’s a jerk. We don‘t know that and I guess we’re going to find out because someone didn’t like what he said.
Report Post »LATIN DANCER
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:13pmThey love the Mexican flag, celebrate 5 de mayo,repudiate American laws and they want Texas, Arizona and Calfornia to become Mexico……..so what’s wrong with the bunch of Mexicans…?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 7:25pmI believe the correct phrase is “a pod of mexicans”.
Report Post »Seymour
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:28pmOkay….Progressive Beaners, perhaps and I’m latino.
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:05pmAnd the problem is….?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:18pmThey ARE Mexicans .. but “grin gos” are not allowed to say so .. yet they will demand everything be in Spanish and celebrate Mexican everything.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:24pm@CatB
Report Post »They’re all Mexicans? How do you know that? I know conservatives don’t like learning anything about the rest of the world (or about anything at all for that matter, because learning is for snobs), but Hispanics in The U.S. come from many countries, most of which you’ve probably never heard of.
petev1717
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:04pmIf that‘s what they are then that’s what they are send them all back to Mexico!
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:58pmYou mean, a man cannot say “a bunch of Mexicans” ???
Can a man say “a bunch of Americans” ?
How about “ a bunch of Russians” ?
Help me understand, please.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:17pmHow about “ a bunch of Old Truckers ”
10-4 good buddy and keep the dirty side down ..lol
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:18pmlet me help you understand
Report Post »you can’t call them a “brunch”
the right words are
group
heard
flock
pack
fill in anyother word that fits
Old Truckers
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:14pmPolarized America,
That’s where I came from, “a bunch of old truckers”, a trucking family from 1914 to 2005, when my Dad died.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 7:52pmTruckers made this country great, i have a lot of respect for them …….carry on
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:15amYou call them athlete’s. They are the best, Runners, Jumpers, Climbers and Swimmers on our southern border. Give credit were credit is due. GOD BLESS AMERICA and INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:55pmSo what’s the issue here??
Report Post »lordjosh
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:53pmSo what? What is the complaint?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:52pmif the sombrero fits…..
Report Post »JBIII
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:20pmWell played…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:41pmLIKE!
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Report Post »Thors Hammer
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:52pmSo? They are what they are. Many of the inhabitants in TX refuse to recognize USA authority, but they’re all for allegiance to Mexico; so yes, they are a “Bunch of Mexicans”.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:52pmI know the area they are talkiing about. Most likely they ARE mexicans!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:51pm“WetBacks” is much Better!
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:27pmyes ,all are ‘wetbacks’, but not all are ‘mexican’.
Report Post »95%are “mexican” the rest are m‘u’lims.
strats
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:10pmI love mexican food, oh my!
Report Post »If you come into the country legally, I won‘t feel like I’m breaking the law by patronizing your business.
You have great food, Mexicans. Deal with the paperwork so that I don’t feel sad for you.
yiska8
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:47pm@youdidthis
Report Post »And the Muslims came through Mexico or got here on a student visa. And I hope you didn’t mean all us Spanish surnamed Americans are wetbacks if we come from Mexican descent. I’m not ashamed of it, but I love to sting ignorant gringos when they least expect it. They often deserve it. I’m against illegal immigration and the Dream Act crap, and I believe you come here to be 100% American, but the funny thing is that people who make fun of “Mexicans” at least down here in the South of Texas, marry, one, hire one, and definitely have partaken of their fair share of tamales. Just looking at this Ft. Worth mayor, I bet after making this comment, he had three orders puffy tacos and bean and cheese nachos for dinner and maybe a couple of Dos XX’s. Ha!!