Q: SCA 5 is old news. Why is 80-20 rehashing SCA 5 a days
before the general election?
A: As the election approaches, 80-20 is
increasingly aware that some of us have NOT drawn the right lessons from our
magnificent victory in stopping SCA 5.
Q: What are the proper lessons that we should have learned?
A: Two major lessons:
(1) Had there been a
tradition of accountability by the AsAm elected officials to the AsAms, the 3
Ch-Am senators would not have voted for SCA 5.
Consequently, SCA 5 would have died in the Senate.
Conclusion? We MUST have accountability.
(2) Political parties have always known
that the power of a party is small when compared with the
power of an enraged constituent. Hence, for reasons of self-preservation, political parties usually give their elected
legislators a lot of leeway if a specific vote
will cause the legislators
to enraging his/er constituents. Our victory in STOPPING SCA
5 testified eloquently to that fact. None of
the AsAm legislators
has been punished by the Democratic Party in CA, to 80-20's knowledge.
Q: What qualification do you have to speak on such matters?
A: I was the President of the Delaware
Senatefor 4 years. I was in a position to know.
Q: Why is 80-20 so outspoken in wanting to defeat former Sen
Leland Yee, and Assemblyman Paul Fong in his coming
San Jose race?
A: To establish a tradition of
accountability by the AsAm elected officials to the AsAm community, by punishing those who
have been unfaithful to our rightful interest.
Q: Why is such severe punishment necessary?
A: Political parties, for understandable reasons, want to
exert party discipline, bearing in mind that the US is not China.
In the US party discipline is very lax.
An elected officials who has bucked the
party leadership too many times could be punished. Examples are striping
a desirable committee assignment from that official, delaying the passage of
his/her legislative proposals, and less election support. Hence, the AsAm
community must let our elected officials know that if they betray us in a
major way, then our punishment for them will be worse - the death of their
political career.
Q: There are talks that establishing accountability is NOT
enough. AsAms in CA must vote for Republicans to deny the
Democratic Party a super-majority in CA's 2 legislatures. Do
you agree with it?
A: No. No! However, if I were a leader in CA's
Republican Party, I'll certainly argue that way to fool the AsAms into
voting for Republican legislators. :-)
80-20's goal is different from that of
either the Republican or the Dem. Party. We want AsAms to be politically knowledgable
& strong. Hence, we always tell you the truth.
80-20 is trying to use the 2014 election to
establish the historic first tradition of accountability. Help vote against
Paul Fong. Tell your friends in San Jose how he refused to help us during our
struggle against SCA 5, and how he shamelessly claimed credit as soon as SCA 5
was pronounced dead by CA senate.
S. B. Woo, a volunteer
President, 80-20 National AsAm
Political Action Committee, Inc.
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Monday, November 03, 2014
Right lessons from stopping SCA5
