From the mouth of Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Paul Kanjorski as he discussed a Pennsylvania program providing assistance to low-income persons facing home foreclosures:
"Because of the longevity of the recession, these are people--and they are not minorities, and they're not defective, and they're not all the things you like to insinuate that these programs are about. These are average good American people. Most of them have been veterans who served, responsible, have worked all their lives, but they're not full of money. They live pay check to pay check and they always will because they are in the lower margins of our society."
Lou Barletta, Kanjorski's Republican opponent, has accused Kanjorski of saying that "minorities are not 'average, good American people.'" The congressman's office says that Kanjorski said nothing that requires an apology.
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