Kasich said, according the Los Angeles Times.

Back at home in Ohio, Gov. Kasich is facing a rotting charter school system that has bilked billions from taxpayers while the governor evades answering questions on the data-scrubbing scandal that could trash his newly pressed positive campaign of working together to find commonsense solutions.

Kasich meant exactly what came out which is that Latinos are only worthy of praise as it relates to the service and hospitality industries and “the jobs that only they’re willing to do”, a skewed opinion held by one too many of this election’s candidates.

“Most candidates have lopsided, stereotypical ideas about immigrants, which include the sense that immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, are only good while serving others”, said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, communications director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

“I think, first of all, it was a well-intentioned comment”.

But the winding answer from Ohio Gov. John Kasich somehow wound up at putting a little extra in the tip for the hotel housekeeper.

I imagine the governor was trying to be complimentary, though it didn’t quite work.

Kasich, who is polling in the middle of a crowded Republican field, is viewed as one of the more moderate GOP candidates when it comes to issues like immigration and shutting down the federal government in an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood. But his comments also contained a whole host of of assumptions about Latino interests, skills, talents and abilities that really should have been terribly awkward to express, out loud, in public, in 1955, much less 2015.

“A lot of them do jobs that they’re willing to do and, uh, that’s why in the hotel you leave a little tip”, Kasich said. But, he added, Kasich is “light years behind people like Hillary Clinton or Martin O’Malley or Jeb Bush in his full comprehension of the overarching contributions of the community”. Kasich and many other Americans don’t run across Latino golf club owners, lawyers, doctors, artists and astronauts in their daily lives. Many agricultural workers are undocumented, for instance, which caused a major problem for Alabama farms in 2011 when people left the state after its harsh anti-unauthorized immigration law went into effect.

John Kasich is raising eyebrows after comments he made Thursday when an audience member at a swanky Orange County golf club asked him how he’d attract Latino voters. Really no one but she can.

Javier Palomarez, the president and CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, told Politico the organization wasn’t bothered by Kasich’s remarks.