Rep. Don Young's use of an ethnic slur to describe the California farmworkers who picked tomatoes for his father threatens to become an embarrassment for a Republican Party trying to court Latino voters.
In a radio interview in Ketchikan Tuesday, Young, R-Alaska, called the workers "wetbacks." [...] "I used to own - my father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes. You know it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It's all done by machine."
