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Sanchez had hoped to use the party's twice-annual meeting to
build a case for her candidacy against state Attorney General
Kamala Harris in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Senator
Barbara Boxer in 2016. Instead, she had to engage in damage
control.
"In this crazy and exciting rush of meetings yesterday, I said
something offensive, and for that I sincerely apologize," she
said in remarks to the convention on Sunday, later posted online
by CBS San Francisco and other news outlets.
Sanchez, speaking on Saturday to the party's Indian-American
caucus, described a meeting with an Indian-American campaign
supporter who had asked to see her.
"I'm going to his office, thinking that I'm going to go meet
with 'wo-wo-wo,' right?" Sanchez said in a video widely
circulated online, tapping her fingers to her mouth in a gesture
mimicking an old popular culture depiction of an American Indian
war cry.
The remark was caught on a cellphone video and distributed
widely.
Harris decried the remark.
"It is shocking and there is no place for that in our public
discourse," Harris, whose mother was from India, said in a
statement provided by her campaign spokesman on Monday.
Harris is considered the front-runner in the race. Sanchez
announced her candidacy late last week.
Sanchez' campaign manager did not immediately respond to a
request for comment on Monday.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, Calif.; Editing by
Peter Cooney)
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