Does Texas Rep. Betty Brown need a lesson in how to be politically correct?

The Republican lawmaker raised some eyebrows Tuesday when she suggested Asian people in the United States adopt more American names to help poll staffers, the Houston Chronicle reports.

The comments came during a the Texas House of Representatives Elections Committee hearing during which Ramey Ko, a representative of the Organization of Chinese Americans, lamented that many Asian people in the United States face voting challenges because their legal names and Americanized names don’t always match. To that, Rep. Brown suggested Ko urge his peers to find more familiar monikers:

Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?

She later asked whether Ko and company "could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?" Democrats seized on the comments and accused Brown of using race-based rhetoric. Brown’s office insisted that she was not being racially insensitive.