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AUSTIN — A Texas lawmaker under fire for saying that Asian-American voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans” has apologized for her remarks.
State Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell, issued an apology Thursday for comments made during a House Elections Committee hearing April 7.
Brown said the remark came during a conversation on the difficulty of translating names and that she was referring to transliteration issues when she asked a representative of the Organization of Chinese Americans whether Asian-Americans could adopt names that “we could deal with more readily here.”
