Maryland Asian Pacific Americans for Obama Unite to Elect Obama President
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Unite to Elect Senator Barack
Obama President
Top Asian Pacific American leaders
recently participated in a recent Maryland
Democratic Unity Rally. As the Democratic
presidential primary has come to an end,
leading Asian Pacific Americans Democrats, who
supported both Senators Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton, have united to support Senator
Obama for
President.
Maryland House of
Delegates, Delegate Susan Lee along with
Paul Tiao and Minh Le are leading and chairing
the Maryland Asian Pacific Americans for
Obama. The
“Both Senators
Obama and Clinton made history, and now our
kids can see that is truly possible for a
minority or woman to be the presidential
nominee and president. Now that the
primary has come to an end, it is important
that we unite and elect Barack Obama as our
next President,” said Delegate Lee.
Maryland Attorney
General Douglas Gansler and Congressman Elijah
Cummings are Co Chairs of the
The group has had
several post primary meetings and gathered
together top leaders from a diverse cross
section of the Asian Pacific American community
who are working on outreach, media, unity
rallies, voter registration, GOTV, and other
events in Maryland, Virginia, and the DC area
and assisting the National Asian Pacific
Americans for Obama on a $1 million fundraiser
expected to draw over 1,000.
The group also
created an student internship program which
will send students to assist the Obama
campaigns in
CAPAD-MD Chairman
and Maryland Democratic Party Vice Chair Dr.
Ngoc Chu stated, “this election is truly
inspiring, its about a candidate who is the
child of Kenyan immigrant and Kansas native,
raised in Hawaii, attended schools on
scholarships, as a Harvard Law graduate
bypassed high paying law firms to work in the
community and now wants to take the country in
a new direction.”
Minh Le added, “He
is truly the embodiment of the American Dream,
something which many Asian Pacific Americans
aspire to.”
CAPAD-MD Special
Advisor Kun Sin stated, “The group is working
very hard to ensure the Asian Pacific American
community is not only energized, but also plays
a major and historic role in electing Barack
Obama President in what will be a close
election in November.”
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