Easier for Americans to Deal With?!

My pledge mom from college sent me a link to a post this afternoon from Think Progress. I am outraged.

Here is the post below posted by Amanda Terkel (actual article is also linked):

On Tuesday, State Rep. Betty Brown (R) caused a firestorm during House testimony on voter identification legislation when she said that Asian-Americans should change their names because they’re too hard to pronounce:

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told [Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey] Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

Yesterday, Brown continued to resist calls to apologize. Her spokesman said that Democrats “want this to just be about race.”

I know I should not do the name calling, but what an ignorant bitch. This lady needs to be removed from office. An apology from her would not ease my mind, but the fact that she won't even issue one makes me so upset.

[image via chron.com]