Amid the upcoming re-election for California’s 45th district, Democratic candidate Jay Chen fired back after GOP Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) distributed fliers that depicted Chen as a communist sympathizer. Last month, Steel’s campaign sent out red-baiting fliers to the Vietnamese American community in Orange County to highlight Chen’s support of the Confucius Institute, an education and cultural promotion organization backed by the People’s Republic of China. The flyers featured an altered image of Chen in a classroom holding Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto.” On the classroom’s chalkboard, “Jay Chen invited China into our children’s classroom” is written in Vietnamese. More from NextShark: Aftab Pureval makes history as Cincinnati’s first Asian American mayorThe tension between the two has highlighted some issues that are unseen in other districts. It was good on the Chen campaign to point out his Naval Reserve and his grandmother’s history.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 13, 2022 11:00 UTC