Showing posts with label AAPI politicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AAPI politicians. Show all posts
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Asian American community organizer running for L.A. mayor

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As if the Los Angeles mayor's race wasn't crowded enough, a new player has stepped into the ring, and she's not pulling any punc...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Filipino American candidate wins Democratic Primary in New York City

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RAGAFORQUEENS Rep. Gregory Meeks, left, Steven Raga, center, and State Sen. John Liu at a rally for Raga in May (Photo: RagaforQueens) Steve...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Seattle's new mayor joins Wu and Pureval as Asian Americans make political progress

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Seattle's Bruce Harrell with his family and friends. Bruce Harrell is Seattle's first Asian American mayor and second Black mayor af...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

A new generation of Asian Americans win seats in NYC's city council

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Top row left to right: Julie Won and Linda Lee. Bottom row left to right: Sandra Ung, Shahana Hanif, and Shekar Krishnan Asian American repr...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Asian Americans win mayorships in Boston, Cincinnati and -- perhaps -- Seattle

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From left: Boston's Michelle Wu, Cincinnati's Aftab Pureval and Seattle's Bruce Harrell. CORRECTION: Earlier versions of this po...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

New Jersey seeks to bolster AAPI lawmakers in the state legislature.

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The New Jersey state legislature could add to the number of AAPI legislators Tuesday if the influential Asian American electorate exercise t...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Now Michelle Wu's real campaign begins for Boston mayor

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Michelle Wu thanks her volunteers. Just two hours after the polls closed Tuesday (Sept. 14), Michelle Wu declared her one of the two finali...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Vote today! Michelle Wu leading in race for Boston's mayorship

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MICHELLE WU CAMPAIGN U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., right, campaigns for City Councilor Michelle Wu, who is running to become Bosto...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Who is speaking for you in Congress? Not many, it turns out

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CAPAC Most of the 18 elected AAPI members of Congress and some associate members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus are in t...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Andrew Yang: 'I am not going to be the next mayor of New York City'

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Screen Capture / NBC Updated, June 24. As the votes came in Tuesday night, self-proclaimed "numbers guy" Andrew Yang knew what the...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Vietnamese American congressmember mulling a challenge to Florida's Senator Marco Rubio

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Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Florida Vietnamese American Congressmember Stephanie Murphy of Florida is considering running for the U.S. Senate  ...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Mia Bonta running for her husband's former Assembly post

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MIA BONTA   Assemblymember Rob Bonta had to resign his seat when he became California's first Filipino American Attorney General last mo...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Four new AAPI members of Congress "representing" in the House of Representatives

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TWITTER Rep. Marilyn Strickland wore a traditional Hanbok for her swearing-in ceremony. Four new AAPI members of the 117th Congress were swo...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Record number of AAPI candidates running for state legislatures

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FACEBOOK The Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus of Calif. is made up Assembly and Senate members. This blog has written extensively o...