(A) Help Your Kids When Pres. Candidates Come to Town
Presidential candidates may be coming to your town. Please take
advantage of it. Be sure to mention YOUR support for 80-20 to
candidates and/or their staff. The more the politicians are aware
that we have a bloc vote, the more they'll attend to our rightful
interests.
Tell them about:
1) A Nat'l Science Foundation sponsored survey found that APAs voted
66 to 32 for Gore nationally, after 80-20 endorsed Gore. APAs voted
70 to 28 for Gore in CA where 80-20 is the strongest,
2) 80-20 was rated one of the nation's two most effective cyberspace
political organizations in the 2000 election by a recent book: "Click
on Democracy -- The Internet's Power to Change Political Apathy
into Civic Action." One of the Authors, Steve Davis, was the
Washington/world and national news editor of USA Today.
3) "Sometimes, it takes a big hammer to hit you on the head to wake
you up. I'll report back to my principals that there is a BIG NEW
HAMMER here (in 80-20)." Joel Szabal representing the Republican
Nat'l Comm. and the Bush Campaign at 80-20's Endorsement
Meeting of 2000.
(B) Pres. Bush's "no racial profiling" policy was questioned by The
NY Times: http://www.80-20initiative.net/NYTRacialProfiling.html
(C) Buying a new house or renting a place?
See: Asians face prejudice in housing market San Francisco
Examiner. Even APAs in Calif. are not treated any better. All the
more reason to help achieve group political clout to stop this
discrimination.
http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.discrimination.0702w
*****Correction: Our e-mail entitled "Be Passionate About 4TH OF
JULY" contained popular myths that are not accurate. We apologize
and thank Tami Matsumoto for pointing out our mistakes. See
http://www.truth orfiction.com/rumors/patriots.htm. *****
Sea of Flags in Houston: 2500 flags stretching 2.1 miles from Welcome
Market to Hong Kong Market!
Sea of Flags in Oakland: 15 traditional assoc. in Chinatown, Oakland
joined 80-20 for a massive display of flags including a parade.
TOGETHER, we shall overcome. Basic member: $35,
Family (2 votes): $50, and Life Member: $1000. Any US citizen or
permanent resident can be a member, using a credit card, visit
http://www.80-20initiative.net/membership.html or
http://www.80-20.info/membership.html.
PERSONAL checks are payable to "80-20 PAC", mailed to:
Jing-Li Yu
80-20 special Assistant
43-34 Union St., Apt. 6-d
Flushing, NY 11355-7042
Write down your E-MAIL address & PHONE no. on the BACK of the
check.
