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8. It's emphasizing the senator's "otherness"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:06 PM

Jun 21

i.e., not being a yokel like Shady Vance. He chose the name, as I mentioned in another post, not to recall a criminal from nearly a quarter century ago but to emphasis that Sen. Padilla is not a WASP by calling him by one of the more common Spanish names.

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