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Be Ready To Be Shocked 3 Times
Political reality in Asia: Elected officials are more effective.
Political reality in USA: NGOs are more effective.
Examples are the Jewish AIPAC, the NAACP, the NRA, and perhaps the AsAm 80-20 Initiative.
Below we contrast AsAm elected officials versus AsAm political NGOs in 3 areas. (A) vulnerability (B) having the resources to serve the AsAm Community, and (C) effectiveness. Get ready to be shocked.
(A) Contrasting Vulnerability:
(1) All elected officials are vulnerable, when it comes to re-election. That's why they don't dare to do the right things which may be politically costly.
(2) AsAm elected officials are particularly vulnerable, because they raise money from AsAms nation-wide, and therefore have to provide service AsAms in order to please the donors. But that could greatly endanger their re-election.
AsAm NGOs do NOT face re-election. They can serve the best interests of AsAm community with 100% devotion, within legal limits. They can even plan to defeat elected officials who don't share AsAm's rightful concerns - a feat that AIPAC has achieved many times, based on Jewish interests which in turn made AIPAC very powerful.
(B) Contrasting Having the Resources to Serve the AsAm Community:
AsAm elected officials have a substantial annual budget and more staff. However, they can't allocate any of those resource for AsAms nationally, unless they want to impeachment or defeat in the next election.
An AsAm NGO doesn't have the same resources, but its small resources are 100% devoted to serve you. 80-20 has squirreled away about $4 million. In time, with the help of compound interest, that small war chest shall explode to become $40 million or even $400 million. Just like the Jewish AIPAC, 80-20 shall one day have MORE resources than the elected officials, to protect your rights and serve your best interest. Indeed, 80-20's war chest could jump to $40 million tomorrow, if a politically astute AsAm billionaire reads this article.
(C) Effectiveness
In Dec. 2018, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus couldn't even stop a law which aimed to punish Chinese Americans unconstitutionally from being included in the House version of the "Defense Authorization Act of 2019". It took 80-20 EF, an NGO, to eliminate that House version from being included in the final Senate House compromise version. Click on 1 and 2 to get the facts. The above says it all.
What have our elected AsAm Congresspersons done for you in the college admissions (1 & 2), glass ceiling in workplaces (1 & 2), Hoover Institute's outrageous Report (1 & 2) and the profiling of Chinese Am. issues (1 & 2)? To recall what 80-20 Education Foundation did in the same issues, click on the respective (1 & 2). NOTE: we are not that satisfied with 80-20's effectiveness either, but in time 80-20 will do more and more as its resources increase.
AsAm Elected Officials are Capable & Dedicated !
None of the above is meant to disparage our elected AsAm officials. All of the above is just to illustrate the DIFFERENCES between elective offices (I was an elected official myself) and NGOs. Then and only then will we be able to protect our rights cost-effectively.
S. B. Woo
President and a volunteer for the past 20 years
80-20 SuperPAC,
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)
