Please Join Us
Host Committee (in formation): Jury Candelario • Sanjay Chhugani • Curtis Chin • Alex H. Fukui • Surina Khan • Jeff Kim • Phil Lam • Cindy Ota Lee • Eileen Ma • Rick Tan • John Wirfs • Doreena Wong • Liming Zhou

AND OTHER LGBT ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDERS AND ALLIES

at a reception supporting

JUDY CHU
Candidate for Congress
32nd District
Sunday, March 8, 2009
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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Asian Pacific Americans for Progress PAC (APAP PAC) today announced the launch of its Glen S. Fukushima Campaign Fellowship and the placement of the Fellow with Dr. Judy Chu’s campaign for California’s 32nd Congressional District, which will be vacant should current Congresswoman Hilda Solis resign to become the U.S. Secretary of Labor.

The campaign fellowship is made possible through a donation by Glen. S. Fukushima, a former Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Japan and China at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), Executive Office of the President.

APAP PAC is currently accepting applications. Go to www.apaforprogress.org/apap-pac to learn more and apply. Applications are due on Feb. 28, 2009, at 11 p.m. Pacific Time.

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Please join us at a reception supporting Judy Chu for Congress on Thursday, March 5th (details below & attached). She courageously jumped into the congressional race to fill Hilda Solis’ seat and we have an opportunity to elect a progressive, smart, experienced woman — and Asian American — in Congress.

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Cross-posted from AAA-Fund Blog:

AAA-Fund endorsee Dr. Judy Chu’s bid to succeed Rep. Hilda Solis may have to wait a month (or two).

With one exception (see below), a special election must be held about ten weeks after a vacancy opens up. Originally, we expected that Rep. Solis would be confirmed U.S. Labor Secretary by early February. For this reason, everyone believed the special election would be called for April. Then two things happened. First, a few GOP Senators delayed Rep. Solis’ confirmation hearing. After a groundswell of national support, she is now expected to be confirmed next week — pushing the race to replace her to May.

Then California’s budget crisis (any takers for a $42 billion deficit?) took center stage. If a complex (and painful) deal is approved, there will be a statewide special election in May or June (the Sacramento Bee is guessing May 19).

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The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State

U.S. Department of State

Please join Asia Society’s live video webcast of The Honorable Hillary Clinton’s first major foreign policy speech on the eve of her upcoming trip to Asia. Presiding, Vishakha N. Desai, President, Asia Society.

AsiaSociety.org live, Friday, Feb.13, 1pm ET

This is an INVITATION-ONLY event. Tune in to the free live webcast,
1pm ET, Friday Feb. 13. Click the WATCH LIVE ONLINE link.

Webcast viewers are encouraged to submit questions prior to or during the program to moderator@asiasociety.org

>> Join an online discussion now: What Secretary Clinton Should Know About Asia

According to the New York Times, NY Senator Senator Charles E. Schumer has recommended that the White House select his chief counsel, Preet Bharara, as the next United States attorney in Manhattan. According to the Times article,

Bharara, 40, was a federal prosecutor in New York from 2000 to 2005, handling organized crime and narcotics cases, among others. But he emerged more prominently in Washington after he became Mr. Schumer’s top aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005.

There, he played a key role in investigating the scandal over the dismissals of United States attorneys in 2006, including some who were removed for political reasons.

The committee’s investigation ultimately led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales in 2007.

Schumer’s recommendation makes Bharara the frontrunner for the position, although if he is nominated by President Obama, he will be have to be confirmed by the Senate.

In a bit of fashion news, First Lady Michelle Obama is featured on the cover of the March edition of Vogue. According to the BBC, Michelle is the second First Lady to be featured on the cover (which is usually reserved for models) since Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1998. The dress that Michelle is wearing was designed once again by Jason Wu, who also designed the memorable white gown that she wore during the inauguration balls.

Also enjoy this brief slideshow of the president and the First Lady at Vogue’s web site.

Senator Daniel Inouye (one of the key negotiators) has this to say:

“We do not have the luxury of time,” said Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), another key negotiator. “We must expeditiously face the facts and pass this measure. To delay this any further would lead to consequences that could be horrendous.”

Inouye said more delay “could lead to a crisis worse than the Great Depression.” And, since the United States is now the world’s only superpower, “if we go down, there’ll be chaos on this globe,” he said.

Read more at The Washington Post. 

Sam Yoon, the Korean American city councilor from Boston, has announced that he will join Boston’s mayoral race for Mayor Thomas Menino’s seat in 2010.  Yoon was Boston’s first Asian American city councilor and, if elected, would be Boston’s first non-Caucasian mayor.  Coverage so far in the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald following Yoon’s announcement Monday is calling the mayoral big “historic”!

This post by Eugenia in October links to an article in Dong-An Ilbo about the role of Korean-Americans in Obama’s presidential campaign, including Yoon.

More at www.samyoon.com

According to The Yale Daily News, Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh is a leading contender to be appointed legal adviser to the Department of State. If selected, Dean Koh would serve as principal counselor on all legal matters to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (who herself was a graduate of Yale Law School in 1973).

Continue reading at The Yale Daily News!