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Latina Actress Blacklisted for Supporting Republican Candidate

Posted on | January 18, 2014 | 60 Comments

If I had ever heard of Maria Conchita Alonzo before now, I don’t remember it, but I know I’ll never forget her after this:

A famed actress is facing backlash in San Francisco’s Latino community, after she voiced support for a conservative candidate for California governor.
Maria Conchita Alonso starred in a campaign ad for Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of San Bernardino County, a Tea Party favorite who is seeking the Republican nomination. . . .
“Politicians and big government are killing our prosperity, pushing welfare costs through the roof and driving our schools into the ground,” Donnelly said in the ad.
Standing next to Donnelly, Alonso jokingly translated in Spanish, “We’re screwed.” . . .
Alonso is an actress of Cuban and Venezuelan descent. She is perhaps best known for her role in the movie “Moscow on the Hudson” which also starred Robin Williams.
The actress was to perform next month at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco’s Mission District in a Spanish-language version of “The Vagina Monologues,” scheduled for a run from February 14th through 17th. The show is being produced by none other than Eliana Lopez, wife of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.
“We really cannot have her in the show, unfortunately,” Lopez told KPIX 5. . . .
“Of course she has the right to say whatever she wants. But we’re in the middle of the Mission. Doing what she is doing is against what we believe,” Lopez said.

Regular Right Guy notes the irony that Alonzo escaped totalitarianism in Cuba only to suffer political repression in San Francisco.

A couple years ago, Alonzo called Sean Penn a “communist a–hole,” a statement that everybody knows is true, but which has so much more authority when it is said by a refugee from Cuba.

By the way, Michelle Malkin had a very heartfelt column this week about the hurtfulness of left-wing identity politics. It is sadly remarkable how some “progressives” think it is clever to deride Malkin — an Oberlin College alumna who is one of the most successful businesswomen of the New Media age — with such grossly derogatory slurs as “Manila whore” and “Subic Bay bar girl.”

UPDATE: Now a Memeorandum thread with more commentary by Ann Althouse, Vox Day and Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom.

 

Category: California, Celebrities

Comments

60 Responses to “Latina Actress Blacklisted for Supporting Republican Candidate”

  1. Dai Alanye
    January 19th, 2014 @ 3:06 pm

    A much-needed correction of pop history.

  2. Dai Alanye
    January 19th, 2014 @ 3:13 pm

    Let’s look on the bright side–she no longer has to appear in the perverted and misnamed* Vagina Monologues.
    [*Should be Vulva Monologues or (even better) Pudenda Monologues.]

    This poor woman has already been punished, having to appear topless in a movie with Robin Williams.

  3. FOAF
    January 19th, 2014 @ 4:38 pm

    Identity politics is just a beard for the left to control the narrative by falsely claiming the moral high ground. They have no problem with calling Tea Party members “teabaggers” or Jew-baiting supporters of Israel. Of course they get away with it because of the MFM.

  4. Bob Belvedere
    January 19th, 2014 @ 4:56 pm

    And the vast majority of those denounced as Reds, were, in fact, either Communists, Fellow Travellers, or Dupes.

  5. Bob Belvedere
    January 19th, 2014 @ 4:58 pm

    The Jewess is one of the Boudicas of the Rightosphere.

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