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Filipino Americans on the Rise in Calif. Politics
Filipino American representation overdue in California Legislature: Trailblazers such as Royal Morales, Cas Tolentino, Al Mendosa, Alice Bulos, Rodel Rodis, Dennis Normandy, Alex Esclamado and Mona Lisa Yuchengco, all shared the passion of fighting for Filipino American political recognition.
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Growing Pains
California speakership battle divides APA Caucus: After a raucous month of Democratic assembly members jockeying for the powerful speaker position, Assemblywoman Karen Bass was sworn in as the first minority woman speaker on Feb. 28.
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Candidates: Where’s the API Recognition?
Super Tuesday surprise: I blew it. I predicted Super Tuesday would determine our Democratic candidate for president, and I was wrong. Instead we are faced with a close contest between two electrifying, history-making candidates: Clinton versus Obama. I love it.
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Choosing Sides in the Democratic Presidential Race
On Feb. 5, California has a rare opportunity to play a significant role in the presidential primary races.
Asian American and Pacific Islanders, the second largest ethnic community in California, will be courted like never before. -
Warren’s Big Win
Christmas Comes Early for Furutani: After losing his first bid for the 55th Assembly seat last year, Warren Furutani looks like he is headed to the Assembly on his second try, after defeating fellow Democrats Mervin Evans and Mike Gipson, city councilman from Carson, to win the Democratic primary.
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Calif. G.O.P.’s Dirty Tricks
Asian Domestic Violence Spotlighted at the State Capitol: The Assembly Special Committee on Domestic Violence held an Oct. 2 hearing with Committee Chairwoman Fiona Ma, whose campaign against domestic violence began when she was a San Francisco County supervisor. Featured speakers included actress, author and survivor Robin Givens and Mrs. California 2007 Tracie Stafford, […]
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Ted Lieu Calls for Order in the Courts
Lieu prepares to take over leadership of the API Legislative Caucus: The usually mild-mannered moderate Assemblyman Ted Lieu garnered headlines recently by lashing out at the governor’s dismal record on appointing minorities and women to judgeships.
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Pelosi Leadership Makes a Difference
Just as I predicted, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated her continuous commitment to the API community and issues during these first months of her leadership. One of her first staff promotions went to Carmela Clendening, a talented member of her congressional legislative staff and a former journalist. Carmela’s responsibilities include advising the […]
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Capitol Event for Norm
The April 11 Asian Pacific Islander Caucus Legislative Institute dinner honoring Norman Mineta was a wonderful occasion to see some L.A. icons in Sacramento like Bill Watanabe, Kerry Doi, Ford Kuramoto,Warren Furutani and Kazue Shibata.
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Unfortuantely, Asian "interest groups" have taken a cue from the Sharpton/Jackon clique. Everyone wants a grubby hand in the racial spoils trough.
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Who cares what the census says? By that stupid logic someone from Vladivostok should also be considered for this award.
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"White lords"? Oh jeez. You couldn't use more cilched liberal arts language if you tried. That being said, I agree they should have chosen an asian to play the asian character.
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"We need immigrants willing to do some of the low paying jobs in order to keep the inflation low. " Nonsense.
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I agree with your comment. In most cases we are left alienated however, Asians are expected to perform well academically by the school system.
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Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
Janet Reno on Choosing Sides in the Democratic Presidential Race
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Er... Hello? This is AMERICA!!! If whites want to live in Chinatown, why the hell not? If you want to live amongst the Chinese, take a one-way to Beijing from JFK.
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Regarding the CCSF expansion: All you have to do is look at who was being paid by the Hilton lobby group, and who was volunteered their time to mobilize and educate the community.
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Huang Fong: You continue to one-up everyone else hereabouts. And I love it. However, forty-buck meals are now history in the starched-linen precincts of our finer-diner establishments, even as four-buck meals are barely within reach for the common working stiff.
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