The endorsement meeting of Saturday, April 28, 2012 resulted in the following endorsements.

13th Congressional District
Pete Stark

18th Assembly District:
Rob Bonta

20th Assembly District:
Jennifer Ong

Hayward City Council
Francisco Zermeno

The APA Democratic Caucus has also voted to endorse:
Proposition 29 – State Tobacco Tax Increase
Measure C – City of Alameda Sales Tax Increase

Per the Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus of Alameda County’s by-laws, Art. IX, Endorsements: “All endorsements must get 60% of votes of the eligible members present and voting on the office or issue in question provided that the membership was notified that endorsements would be entertained in its notice of the meetings, and at least 7 days in advance of the meeting.  Dual endorsements shall be permitted.   Additionally, all ballots shall contain spaces for eligible members to vote for “No Endorsement” or to “Abstain” and such  votes shall be considered for the purposes of determining the required 60% threshold for endorsement.”

Congratulations and good luck to all  of our endorsements and a special thank you for all who participated in this democratic process!

JOIN US AGAIN THIS YEAR FOR THE 2012 ENDORSEMENT MEETING

Come and meet your candidates:

13th Congressional District:
Pete Stark
Eric Swalwell

18th Assembly District:
Rob Bonta

20th Assembly District:
Jennifer Ong
Bill Quirk

Hayward City Council:
Peter Bufete
Barbara Halliday
Olden Henson
Al Mendall
Francisco Zermeno

AND hear about
Proposition 29 – State Tobacco Tax
Measure C – City of Alameda Sales Tax Increase

Saturday, April 28, 2012, 1:00pm-4:00pm

Location: 22634 Foothill Blvd, Hayward, CA 94541
(next to Hayward Medical Market)

Parking is available in the municipal lot #4, enter on “C” Street.
*Please allow extra time as there is a lot of construction along and around Foothill Blvd.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information and PDFs of the candidate questionnaires contact: Karen Fong, 510-821-1617 or karen.fong@sbcglobal.net

The Annual Membership Dinner attracts local APA Dem leaders and allies

This year’s dinner at the Restaurant Peony in Oakland features two luminaries of the APA and Immigrant-American world: Dale Minami and Jose Antonio Vargas.

Join us in exploring how we as API’s can make a difference in our communities at any level.

Event Details

Click to download a PDF version of the flyer

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
6:00 No Host Cocktail.
Program begins at 6:45pm.

Restaurant Peony inside the Renaissance Plaza.
388 9th St, Oakland Chinatown

$35 Reception ($15 Students) rate
APA Democratic Caucus membership discount available at the door or pay now by check or credit card by completing and mailing in the attached form.

Dale Minami to receive the APA Democratic Caucus Lifetime Achievement Award

Dale Minami has been involved in significant litigation involving the civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, such as Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during World War II, originally upheld by US Supreme Court.

Other landmark decisions involving Mr. Minami include: United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. California Blue Shield, the first class action employment lawsuit brought by Asian Pacific Americans on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans; Spokane JACL v. Washington State University, a class action on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans to establish an Asian American Studies program at Washington State University; and Nakanishi v. UCLA, a claim for unfair denial of tenure which resulted in the granting of tenure after several hearing and widespread publicity over discrimination in academia.

He was a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, the first community-interest law firm serving Asian Pacific Americans in the country; a co-founder of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area; the first Asian American Bar Association in the United States, the Asian Pacific Bar of California; and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans, a registered political action committee.

Mr. Minami received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. He received his J.D. in 1971 from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California.

Keynote by Philippine-born Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas, an award-winning multimedia journalist, is the founder of Define American, a new campaign that seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration.

Most recently, he was a senior contributing editor at the Huffington Post, where he launched the Technology and College sections. Prior to that, he covered tech and video game culture, HIV/AIDS in the nation’s capital, and the 2008 presidential campaign for the Washington Post, and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the Virginia Tech massacre. In 2007, Politico named him one of 50 Politicos to Watch. His 2006 series on HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C. inspired a feature-length documentary – The Other City – which he co-produced and wrote. It world premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on Showtime. In 2010, he wrote an exclusive profile of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. A few months later, he wrote a groundbreaking essay that chronicled his life in America as an undocumented immigrant.