A woman, Ana Padilla, has come forward to say she worked for Nevada’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval while she was an illegal immigrant back in the late 1990s. From the report out of KTVN in Reno …
She told us she had not seen the Sandovals since working for them, until she caught a gubernatorial debate on television. “I was so happy. I told my husband, ‘look, it is Mr. Sandoval.’ I’m going to be in the Republican Party and see if we can help him.”
Ana says she was happy to see another Latino running for office. She says that elation turned to disappointment when she heard Sandoval say he does not support amnesty for illegal immigrants. “In the time I worked with him, he supported me,” said Padilla. “Now he says he does not support Latinos that are already here?”
Ana says she no longer supports anyone in the gubernatorial race. She says she is coming out about this now, because she wants people to know what Sandoval stands for.
The Sandovals says they “do not know this person.” The station says they heard about Padilla’s story when she was a guest on a local Latino radio station.
It’s not clear from the report that Padilla has any proof of her claim, though given the nature of off-the-books cleaning jobs such as this it’s not clear what proof she could have.
