Hoekstra

• A coalition of black ministers in Detroit called Monday for U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra to apologize for his Super Bowl ad featuring a young Asian woman speaking broken English to describe the impact of the Democratic incumbents economic policies.
(AP - msnbc.com)
• Mitt Romneys recent comments on China, while craven and nonsensical, are hardly surprising: China is to the 2012 campaign what George Bush was to 2008 (i.e., something to run against).
(Bloomberg)
• Actually, there is such a thing as bad publicity. It's the kind Pete Hoekstra is getting right now. Call them the Google Circles of Hell.
(Washington Post)
• GRAND RAPIDS – Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra tried to define Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow with the "Spenditnow" surname in a Super Bowl ad that has raised a furor over racial insensitivities and stereotyping of Asians.
(MLive.com)
• An political advertisement that ran on Michigan T.V. during the Super Bowl is stirring up a racial controversy this morning. Pete Hoekstra, a former Republican U.S.
(US News and World Report)
• Pete Hoekstra, Senate candidate and tweeting disaster Twitter Pete, aired a campaign ad during the Super Bowl targeted at his happily married opponent, Debbie Stabenow.
(Gawker)
• Maybe everyone else in politics-land knew this, but I was interested to learn: - The brains behind the ad belonged to Fred Davis, shown in a picture from his bio at his companys site.
(Atlantic Online)
• Hoekstra has a conservative voting record, consistent with the conservative nature of the 2nd congressional district. However, he opposes amending the Constitution to prohibit flag desecration.
(Worldnews.com)
• LANSING, Mich. — A coalition of black ministers in Detroit called Monday for U.S.
(Seattle Times)
• In what has become a sad, bipartisan exercise, an increasing number of campaigns are using xenophobic Chinese stereotypes in advertisements to try to gin up nativist sentiment among voters. During the 2010 campaign, then-Rep.
(Think Progress)