CLINTON
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Deanna Fuimano
Title: Chief legal counsel to the American Samoa Senate
Bio: Not available.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton
Kamil Hasan
Title: Member-at-large, Democratic National Committee
Bio: Hasan, 62, is a software entrepreneur originally from Uttar Pradesh, India, and now based in Silicon Valley. Hasan was appointed as member-at-large of the Democratic National Committee three years ago by Chairman Howard Dean.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton
Sen. Daniel K. Inouye
Title: Hawai‘i senator
Bio: Elected to the United States Senate in 1962, Inouye, 84, is currently serving his seventh consecutive term.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton, and although Hawai‘i’s voters went for Obama by a wide margin, he will most likely stay with Clinton, who has long and extensive ties to Hawai‘i’s leaders.
Fagafaga Langkilde
Title: Chairman of the American Samoa Democratic Party
Bio: A former member of the American Samoa House of Representatives and of the Democratic National Committee, he is now president of Samoa’s Malama TV.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton
Cecilia Mafnas
Title: Vice chair to the Guam Democratic Party
Bio: Not available.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton
Rep. Doris Matsui
Title: Representative of California’s 5th District
Bio: Second-term Democrat and longtime friend and supporter of Clinton
Vote: Pledged to Clinton, but represents a county that Obama carried in the California primary
Mona Mohib
Title: Vice chair, DNC Asian Pacific Islander American Caucus
Bio: Mohib, 37, is an at-large member of the DNC, where she has been vice chair of the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus. Mohib, who is Indian American, is also director of policy and communications for the Democratic Governors Association.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton
Mona Pasquil
Title: Member, DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee
Bio: Pasquil, 45, a Filipina American, was born in Sacramento and raised in nearby Walnut Grove, where she currently lives.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton
Nathaniel Savali
Title: Chief legal counsel to the American Samoa Legislature
Bio: Not available.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton
Name: Taling Taitano
Title: Chair of the Guam Humanities Council and the Guam Board of Accountancy
Bio: Former executive director of Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority and Awards Committee chair to the Association of Government Accountants in Guam
Vote: Pledged to Clinton
Keith Umemoto
Title: Co-chair, DNC Credentials Committee and treasurer, Western DNC States Caucus
Bio: Umemoto was a former chair of the Asian Pacific Islander American Caucus of the Democratic National Committee.
Vote: Pledged to vote for Clinton and is likely to stick with that, going the way of California’s voters
Alicia Wang
Title: Second vice chair to the California Democratic Party
Bio: Wang, a 25-year resident of San Francisco, is an instructor of English as a Second Language and citizenship studies at City College. Wang is the first Asian American woman to become a vice chair of the California Democratic Party.
Vote: Pledged to Clinton and is likely to stick with that, going the way of California’s voters
OBAMA
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Rep. Eni Faleomavaega
Title: Congressman, American Samoa
Bio: Faleomavaega has been the American Samoa representative to the U.S. Congress since 1989. Before his congressional terms, Faleomavaega served as lieutenant governor of American Samoa and deputy attorney general of American Samoa.
Vote: Pledged for Obama, although Clinton won the primary in American Samoa
Therese Hunkin
Title: Vice chair to the American Samoa Democratic Party
Bio: Not available
Vote: Pledged to Obama
Mee Moua
Title: Minnesota state senator
Bio: Was first elected to the Minnesota Legislature in a special election in January 2002, becoming the first and highest-ranking Hmong American elected official in the United States
Vote: Pledged to Obama
Rep. Bobby Scott
Title: Representative of Virginia, 3rd Congressional District
Bio: Currently serving eighth term as a member of Congress. With a maternal grandfather of Filipino ancestry, he is the first American with Filipino heritage to serve in the United States Congress.
Vote: Pledged to vote for Obama
UNCOMMITTED
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Sen. Daniel Akaka
Title: Senator of Hawai‘i
Bio: First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1990, Daniel Kahikina Akaka, 84, is America’s first senator of native Hawaiian ancestry and the only Chinese American member of the United States Senate.
Vote: Uncommitted; although Hawai‘i’s voters went for Obama by an overwhelming majority, insiders say he may go with Hillary.
Rep. Madeleine Z. Bordallo
Title: Congresswoman, Guam
Bio: Bordallo is currently serving her third term representing Guam in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Vote: Although Borallo has a history of working with the Clintons, she tends to do her own thing and remains uncommitted; insiders say she will hold out until the last possible minute. Guam’s Democratic presidential primary will be held in May.
Antonio Charfauros
Title: Chair to the Guam Democratic Party
Bio: Charfauros, 58, is a retired government planner.
Vote: Uncommitted
Rep. Mazie Hirono
Title: Congresswoman, 2nd District of Hawai‘i
Bio: Born in Fukushima, Japan, Hirono was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2006. Hirono, 61, was the first immigrant woman of Asian ancestry to serve in Congress.
Vote: Uncommitted and is staying out of the fray for now, although Obama overwhelmingly won Hawai‘i’s primary
Rep. Mike Honda
Title: Representative of California’s 15th Congressional District
Bio: Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives since 2001
Vote: Uncommitted, although Clinton won the California primary and took the majority of votes in Santa Clara County, which accounts for a large part of Honda’s district. He will likely stay out of the fray until the last minute because of his position as DNC vice chair.
Awais Khaleel
Title: Vice president of the College Democrats of America
Bio: Khaleel is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was the first Muslim to serve as state chair for the Wisconsin College Democrats, and is currently the first Muslim or Indian to serve as vice president of the College Democrats of America.
Vote: Uncommitted
Bel Leong-Hong
Title: Chair, DNC Asian Pacific Islander American Caucus
Bio: Founder, President, and CEO of Knowledge Advantage Inc.
Vote: Uncommitted, and will likely remain so until the last minute because of her position with the DNC
Crystal Strait
Title: National committeewoman of the DNC’s Young Democrats of America
Bio: A 28-year-old youth activist in Sacramento, Strait is the youngest of California’s superdelegates, and the granddaughter of a couple who met at a Japanese American internment camp during WWII.
Vote: Uncommitted; insiders say she is going toward Clinton, but can’t declare it publicly because of her role with the Young Democrats.
Robert Underwood
Title: Former Representative of Guam
Bio: Underwood, 60, was a delegate from Guam to the United States House of Representatives from 1993-2003.
Vote: Uncommitted, but rumored to be leaning toward Clinton.
Rep. David Wu
Title: Representative of Oregon, 1st Congressional District
Bio: In his fifth term in Congress
Vote: Uncommitted; Oregon’s primary elections will be held in May.
