{"id":1438546,"date":"2022-04-14T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438546"},"modified":"2022-04-14T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:00:31","slug":"ccp-linked-california-democrat-condemned-for-racist-comments-toward-republican-rep-michelle-steels-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-linked-california-democrat-condemned-for-racist-comments-toward-republican-rep-michelle-steels-accent\/","title":{"rendered":"CCP-Linked California Democrat Condemned for &#039;Racist&#039; Comments Toward Republican Rep. Michelle Steel\u2019s Accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fccp-linked-california-democrat-condemned-for-racist-comments-toward-republican-rep-michelle-steels-accent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA), a\u00a0Korean-American congresswoman, hammered her\u00a0Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked\u00a0Democrat opponent, Jay Chen, for saying\u00a0\u201cracist\u201d comments towards her accent\u00a0during a\u00a0meet and greet at a Jewish\u00a0synagogue last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat, running to unseat Steel in California\u2019s 45th Congressional District, was caught on video, first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/california-dem-appears-mock-rep-steel-accent-interpreter\">reported<\/a> by Fox News, commenting on the incumbent\u2019s accent. While at a\u00a0meet and greet on April 7 at\u00a0B\u2019nai Tzedek synagogue in Fountain Valley, California,\u00a0Chen said,\u00a0\u201cYeah, so she just had another town hall the other day. And, umm, it\u2019s tough. Like, we\u2019ve transcribed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou kind of need an interpreter to figure out exactly what she\u2019s saying,\u201d the CCP-linked Democrat went on to say, receiving laughter from the crowd. \u201cThe more she speaks, the better for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC), which has made investments in the Asian Pacific Americans community by opening across the country by opening community center, hammered Chen for his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats are proving once again that unless you fit their narrative and agree with them, you are fair game for racist attacks,\u201d a spokesperson from the Republican National Committee said to Breitbart News. \u201cCongresswoman Michelle Steel is an inspiration to the Asian Pacific American community and is proof that the American Dream is real. Jay Chen\u2019s despicable comments are totally out of line, and he should apologize for using such racist language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0spokesperson for\u00a0Steel\u2019s campaign condemned the \u201cracist\u201d comments in a statement to Fox News and demanded an\u00a0apology from the Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is a country built on immigrants,\u201d the spokesperson told Fox. \u201cSteel is a first-generation Korean American who speaks English as her third language, and these despicable, racist comments from Jay Chen have absolutely no place in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18326954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1235697834.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18326954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1235697834.png\" alt=\"US Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) attends a press conference about the response to an oil spill in the Pacific Ocean in Huntington Beach, California on October 4, 2021. - A huge oil spill was killing wildlife and threatening California&#039;s beaches on October 4, 2021, in what officials said amounted to an \" environmental catastrophe \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) attends a press conference about the response to an oil spill in the Pacific Ocean in Huntington Beach, California, on October 4, 2021. (PATRICK T. FALLON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cChen owes everyone an explanation, particularly following recent reports he continues backing the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Confucius Institutes in our educational system,\u201d the\u00a0spokesperson said, which refers to a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-ca-dem-who-invited-the-ccp-into-his-local-classrooms\/\">report<\/a> by the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon\u00a0in\u00a0February, claiming Chen helped bring the Confucius Classroom program to\u00a0Hacienda La Puente school\u00a0district.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Free Beacon revealed that Chen \u201cspearheaded\u201d the effort to bring a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)\u00a0sponsored\u00a0educational program into his\u00a0community\u2019s classroom when he was a school board member in 2010.\u00a0The program, funded and run by the CCP\u2019s Ministry of Education, brings \u201cteachers and curriculum materials to teach their students Chinese language and culture,\u201d similar to the\u00a0Confucius Institutes on college campuses,\u00a0the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>However, the effort was considered unsuccessful when the district rejected the CCP-backed funding for\u00a0teachers and curriculum materials\u00a0following pushback from\u00a0local parents in 2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2011\/02\/14\/opponents-of-confucius-classroom-launch-recall-effort-in-hacienda-la-puente-unified\/\">according<\/a> to the\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Daily News<\/i>. Despite the objection, the Democrat still defended his option saying\u00a0he didn\u2019t \u201csee anything sinister about using books from China\u201d given that \u201cpractically everything we use is made in China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under former President Donald Trump, the\u00a0Confucius Institutes were <a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/designation-of-the-confucius-institute-u-s-center-as-a-foreign-mission-of-the-prc\/index.html\">designated<\/a> by the State Department as a \u201cwell-funded propaganda effort\u201d from the CCP and\u00a0recognized for\u00a0\u201cadvancing Beijing\u2019s global propaganda and malign influence campaign on U.S. campuses and K-12 classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, this is not the first time the Democrat, endorsed by\u00a0Planned Parenthood, NewDem Action Fund, and the California Democratic Party, made tasteless comments toward Steel.<\/p>\n<p>Fox noted that Chen has also made other comments towards the\u00a0Republican incumbent during an Indivisible Zoom call in late March. During the call, he called\u00a0Steel\u00a0\u201cincoherent\u201d while claiming that \u201call she does is rely on Republican talking points fed by her husband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, English is the congresswoman\u2019s\u00a0third language after\u00a0Korean and Japanese.\u00a0Steel, one of the first Korean-American women elected to Congress, said in November 2020, after\u00a0defeating former Rep. Harley Rouda (D-CA), that her accent is a part of her and that she\u00a0\u201cstands for the American Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 midterm also is not Chen\u2019s first time running for Congress. The CCP-linked Democrat had an\u00a0unsuccessful run in 2012 when he challenged\u00a0then-Republican incumbent Rep. Ed Royce and lost by\u00a040,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>@JacobMBliss<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA), a\u00a0Korean-American congresswoman, hammered her\u00a0Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked\u00a0Democrat opponent, Jay Chen, for saying\u00a0\u201cracist\u201d comments towards her accent\u00a0during a\u00a0meet and greet at a Jewish\u00a0synagogue last week. The Democrat,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}