Monday, August 24, 2020

Dump Trump or Support Biden/Harris?

 

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"Dump Trump" Is Better Than "Support Biden" for 2 Reasons 

Reason (1): Biden didn't miss a sentence or a word in his acceptance speech. Great. We hope that he'll continue that way. However, as Biden comes out of his basement to engage in hand-to-hand combat with Trump, he may unfortunately weaken. If he does, the "Support Biden" campaign may lose steam. In contrast, the "Dump Trump" will gain steam. Scientifically, a push-pull campaign to get rid of Trump - our only goal - is better than a simple pull Biden in campaign. In addition, polls revealed that the "Dump Trump" campaign generates more emotion from voters and will therefore induce a higher voter turnout. 

Reason (2): Biden has NOT as yet given us a written promise on how he'll help AsAms gain equal opportunity, except in generalities which don't mean a thing if and when he gets into the White House. 

So spread the "Dump Trump" campaign!


A Word to AsAm Elected Dem. Officials - Fight for us when appropriate!

We understand that you need to adhere to protocol of the Democratic Party. You must support the party nominee. You need to fundraise for Biden/Harris. Fine, we have no quarrel with you for all of the above that you need to do.

However, since you mostly raise your money from the AsAm. community, you might want to ALWAYS volunteer your service to advance EQUAL opportunity for AsAms in appropriate occasions. AsAm adults face the lowest glass ceiling in workplaces. AsAm children face the highest barriers in college admission. 

When your party's nominee asks you to help raise money, it is customary that you, as AsAm individuals or as an AsAm Caucus, ask for commitments from the nominee to help the AsAm community back. Have you done that? 

DO IT to create a win-win-win! If Biden commits, we'll donate more to Biden, AsAm adults and children will benefit, we'll respect & support you more. 

An Advice for Andrew Yang - try to REPAY our community

You raised a lot of money from our community largely owing to the political immaturity of Chinese Ams who believed that you could win. 80-20 knew that you didn't have a ghost of a chance to have a decent showing in the first 2 primaries which are the Iowa Caucus (your 6th place finish) and the NH Primary (8th), much less winning the nomination*. However, we didn't want to rain on your parade. We also harbor high hopes for you in the long future - you showed courage to run and displayed some skills by lasting into the last Democratic presidential debate. You did it mostly on the back of Chinese Am. money, but that is OK. Frankly, I won my Lt. Governor race in DE largely on the back of Ch-Am money also.

However, after you left the campaign trail, you began to disappoint us. We've not seen any effort on your part to REPAY our community for the more than $10 million you've raised from Chinese Ams. You seem to view us as suckers to provide money freely to help build your political career forever. It does NOT work that way, Andrew. It's time that you need to REPAY, and then you can draw on us again. Heed our advice please.

80-20 sacrifices itself to tell you the political truth! 80-20 wants to break the cycle of AsAm politicians using the political immaturity of our community to just shine their own political careers WITHOUT repaying our community.

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S. B. Woo


President and a volunteer for the past 21 years
80-20 Asian American Empowerment PAC,
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)

* Andrew Yang received a total of 10,076 votes from IA and NH. He spent $41 million to get those votes. It came to about $4,000 per vote.