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President Obama Meets with CAPAC in a Historic Meeting

Fri, 09/23/2011 - 15:07

For the first time in history, the President of the United States met formally with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) today. President Obama and senior members of his staff met with CAPAC in the Cabinet Room of the White House, where they discussed, among other topics, immigration reform, AAPI judicial nominations, health disparities, data disaggregation, and White House engagement with AAPI communities.


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Asian Americans Running for Congress

Mon, 07/11/2011 - 22:42

Although the final results were disappointing, the 2010 cycle was a breakthrough year for credible Asian American candidates running for Congress. In total, eight candidates made it through the primary, all Democrats. Ultimately, State Senator Hansen Clarke, who ran in Michigan's 13th Congressional District, was the only one to emerge victorious. (Clarke joined the progressive and AAPI caucuses in Congress soon after winning his seat.)

However 2012 could be just as big as six solid candidates have already announced their candidacies.


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Congressman Mike Honda Honored by Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 19:01


Congressman Mike Honda Honored by Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
Contact: Alvina Yeh, Communications Director // 202.725.5651

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Honda Thanks CAPAC

Wed, 02/09/2011 - 18:00

Friends,


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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Hansen Clarke wins MI primary

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 21:46

Great news out of Detroit. State Senator Hansen Clarke has won an upset victory in his overwhelmingly Democratic district. He is poised to become the next Asian American in Congress. Clarke attended the first APAP Detroit meeting last year. We;ll definitely think of ways we can help out his campaign.

Clarke upsets Cheeks Kilpatrick in key race; end

of a political dynasty?


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Hansen Clarke becomes seventh South Asian to run for Congress

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 04:26

Michigan State Senator Hansen Clarke, who attended the launch of APAP's Detroit Chapter last year, has just announced that he is running for Congress. Clarke, who switches from his run for Governor, becomes the seventh South Asian to run for Congress this year. All of them are Democrats.


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Hansen Clarke joins Governor's race in MI

Wed, 01/06/2010 - 09:32

Here's an interesting development out of my home state. This past week, Lt. Gov. John Cherry, the presumed favorite, withdrew from the race for Governor of Michigan. That has opened up a floodgate of new candidates, including progressive State Senator Hansen Clarke. Sen. Clarke was kind enough to join us at the kick off of our APAP Chapter in Detroit last year. We definitely look forward to supporting him as well.


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