"Because I am Mexican, they think I have to sleep under a cactus...."

Taking a page from the Hillary Clinton playbook, Assembly member Fabian Nunez is blaming the perception of his lavish campaign spending on media bias. 

Nunez told the Sacramento Bee:

"Everyone's done it like this," Núñez said of previous legislative leaders. "The difference is there are some in politics who want to judge me in a certain manner.

"Because of the fact I am Mexican, they think I have to sleep under a cactus and eat from taco stands."

Funny how it is the most privileged in society who are the quickest to say they have been ill-treated because of their, gender, race, religion, etc. 

That is not to say that it is impossible that some bias does exist in the media- in Clinton's case, for example, there were some very blatantly sexist statements made by the talking heads on TV.  But that doesn't mean that sexism doomed the Clinton campaign.

In Nunez's case, it just sounds like the old "well everyone else was doing it" excuse.  If Nunez believe he did nothing wrong (he didn't break any laws, for example.  And he is correct, that most politicians in California do the same thing and don't see any problem with it)he should just stay on message and not act defensive.  It is all too easy to blame the media's motives for coming after you.