Did Cruz Bustamante use the word nigger at a dinner party for Black History Month?

[Homer_J.Simpson]

Is this quote from AnnCoulter accurate?

One is Cruz Bustamante, Davis’ lieutenant governor, who has displayed the Democrats’ renowned tolerance and commitment to civil rights the Bob Byrd way – by using the n-word at a dinner celebrating Black History month. (You’d think the California Democrats could come up with a standard bearer to replace Davis who manages to avoid using racial slurs at a public gathering to celebrate black achievements.)

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34193

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnists/wickham/2001-02-06-wickham.htm

02/20/2001 - Updated 04:04 AM ET

WASHINGTON — Cruz Bustamante had a golden opportunity to break the “fourth wall” of this nation’s troubled race relations.

Instead, he retreated behind the refuge of denial and doublespeak.

While giving a Black History Month speech Monday to an audience of nearly 400 black labor activists, Bustamante — California’s lieutenant governor — used the word “nigger” during his remarks. The epithet slipped out as Bustamante was reciting a list of black labor groups that came into existence during the last century, some of which had the word “Negro” in their title.

[Scoo8b]

Then it was a slip of the tongue. As long as you don’t believe in Freudian slips, it’s not really his fault. It’s a shame to see him get eaten alive for a simple slip of the tongue…

[KenGr]

Maybe a slip of the tongue. We’ve made a national sport of crucfying public figures for slips of the tongue under the theory that they tend to say what they are thinking instead of what they should be saying. I don’t think there’s much to this and don’t think it will affect the election.

The more significant question is Bustamante’s position on the MEChA group, which he was a member of and has apparently continued to support. They seem to be the Latino equivalent of the KKK. Link:

Michelle Malkin: Biography and Latest Articles - Michelle Malkin

[Publius]

Perhaps a minor point, but I’m not sure I agree with Ms. Malkin’s translation in that article:

“Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada (For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing).”

Bolding mine. I’m not sure where those words came from.

[Homer_J.Simpson]

Since the OP was answered, mods feel free to move this to GD.

[Homer_J.Simpson]

They seem to be the Latino equivalent of the KKK.

Is that because of all the lynchings and cross burnings they didn’t do?