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Asian Americans Run for Congress

Tue, 11/22/2011 - 13:54

Here's an article that just appeared in the USA Today. It's about the rising number of Asian Americans running for Congress. While there were eight solid candidates in 2010, all Democrats, that number has more than doubled to 19 this go around, including some folks who are making a second go of it, including Ami Bera and Tammy Duckworth.


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Indian American Democratic Candidates Results from IALI

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 17:07

There were quite a few South Asians who ran for office on Tuesday. While there were a lot of disappointing results (Raj Goyle, Manan Trivedi, Ami Bera), there were some other victories around the country. Here is a great update that we got from the Indian American Leadership Institute on the candidates that they were following this past election cycle. Congratulations to the winners and hopefully some of the non-winners will decide to run again in a more favorable environment. 


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Asian American election results

Wed, 11/03/2010 - 07:43

It was a busy night last night. Unfortunately, even though we had an historic class of top-notch progressive Asian Americans running for Congress, we only managed to get two of them across the finish line: Hansen Clarke in MI-13 and Colleen Hanabusa in HI-01. Coming up short were such great candidates as Ami Bera, Manan Trivedi, Raj Goyle, Ravi Sangisetty and Surya Yalamanchili.


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Final Push for 2010 AAPI GOTV mobilization

Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:01

Have you caught GOTV fever yet? Volunteers for the Rep. Honda’s 2010 AAPI GOTV mobilization effort have been able to make 10,845 calls! While we hit our final goal of 10,000 now we have to make sure that our community gets to the polls. We are at the final stretch and still need YOUR HELP to make sure our community gets to the polls, so please forward this email widely!


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House Party in Glendale, CA - Moving on Electoral Campaigns

Thu, 05/13/2010 - 14:00

There were 12 participants at this lively house party, including APAP board members, students, business and community leaders. Following the call, participants discussed issues of concern and three key issues rose to the top: Immigration, healthcare and education, particularly the funding of schools.

 


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Speaker Bios for House Party

Thu, 04/29/2010 - 15:26

kalpen modiKalpen Modi - Association Director, White House Office of Public Engagement


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Ami Bera and Raj Goyle make the list

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 04:10

Today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced the first round of candidates selected for the prestigious “Red to Blue” program that targets GOP-held districts. It's awesome that the list includes two Asian American candidates: Ami Bera who is running in CA-03 and Raj Goyle who is running in KS-04.


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Ami Bera profile in LA Times

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 08:53

Here's a short piece on Congressional candidate Ami Bera that appeared in the LA Times today. Bera is one of six Indian Americans running for Congress this year. Of the six, all of whom are Democrats, Bera seems to be in the top tier, if not the top contender to win in November.


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Ami Bera's Fundraising clears the field

Tue, 12/01/2009 - 14:32

Thanks to some stellar fundraising in the past two quarters, physician Ami Bera has managed to scare off some potential rivals and avoid a Democratic primary for the Congressional seat in CA-03. His main competitor, Bill Slaton, dropped out today and endorsed Bera. Bera now has a clear path to the general election against incumbent Republican Dan Lungren. According to this article in Hotline:


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Surya Yalamanchili becomes sixth South Asian to run for Congress

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 18:34

Add reality-TV contestant Surya Yalamanchili to the growing list of South Asians running for Congress.


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