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08/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Bustamante Won't Renounce Ties to Chicano Student Group"

BUSTAMENTE STILL DIGS MECHA: California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, hoping to be the next governor of California, has refused to denounce MEChA (we blogged a link to Tacitus asking about it here).

Instead, Bustamante, who is running to be governor of California, praised the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, or MEChA, and said he still supports it.

"The students who are in MEChA today are just like the students when I was there, pretty much they are trying to get an education," Bustamante said during a press conference in which the first three questions related to his ties to the group.

"I think the actuality of what takes place in those organizations is to provide student leadership. For me, and many, many others, we were running for student government. That's how I got here today."

As the article points out, many believe that MEChA are no less racist than the Ku Klux Klan...and yet the media doesn't talk about it. Oh well, why do that when you can keep talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger's father.

Read on.