<p>You may have read a few days ago about a certain Sikh person running for the Mayoral seat in Hoboken, New Jersey, and how some unsavoury characters tried to undermine his bid by spreading racist and <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/641166/sikh-mayoral-candidate-called-terrorist.html" target="_blank">hate-mongering flyers</a> to dissuade voters from choosing him.<br /><br />Now, the polls are over, the dust has settled and Ravi Bhalla, the Sikh man in question, has risen as the mayor of the small town.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bhalla wasn't the only one who won over hate, though, as a Chinese and another Indian were elected onto a school board in Edison, also in New Jersey, amid hate-filled flyers demanding they should be deported and that Indians and Chinese were "stealing" jobs.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The hate-encrusted Mayoral polls in Hoboken were condemned by Ravi Bhalla's rival, Mike DeFusco, who had originally created the flyer, associating Bhalla with a "potential conflict of interest", a markedly more decent means of combating a rival than outright calling them a terrorist.</p>
<p>You may have read a few days ago about a certain Sikh person running for the Mayoral seat in Hoboken, New Jersey, and how some unsavoury characters tried to undermine his bid by spreading racist and <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/641166/sikh-mayoral-candidate-called-terrorist.html" target="_blank">hate-mongering flyers</a> to dissuade voters from choosing him.<br /><br />Now, the polls are over, the dust has settled and Ravi Bhalla, the Sikh man in question, has risen as the mayor of the small town.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bhalla wasn't the only one who won over hate, though, as a Chinese and another Indian were elected onto a school board in Edison, also in New Jersey, amid hate-filled flyers demanding they should be deported and that Indians and Chinese were "stealing" jobs.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The hate-encrusted Mayoral polls in Hoboken were condemned by Ravi Bhalla's rival, Mike DeFusco, who had originally created the flyer, associating Bhalla with a "potential conflict of interest", a markedly more decent means of combating a rival than outright calling them a terrorist.</p>
