AAPI's did great this past Sunday at the California Democratic Caucuses to elect district-level delegates. Out of the 241 delegates elected, I estimate that there were about 15 AAPI's elected as delegates for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. For Obama, I counted about 7 AAPI elected district-level delegates. Congrats to all, especially since they were really competitive contests! In CD 33, my district, some candidates were running radio ads!!!
Anyway, I did some research on the process to select at-large and PLEO (Party leader and elected official) delegates. Here's what I found, particularly as it pertains to AAPI's in California interested in going to Denver to represent Obama!
These ballpark figures are based on the estimate that there were 15 AA/PI elected this past Sunday, and doesn't include alternates.
- Given the affirmative action goals articulated by the state party of 9% AA/PI, the 241 district-level delegates should aim to select at least an additional 18 AA/PI delegates through the at-large and PLEO process.
- "At-Large Delegates are confirmed by a vote of the 241 District-Level Delegates at the Statewide Delegation Meeting on May 18." (cadem.org)
- The
ball park breakdown, assuming there needs to be proportional
representation for each candidate based on Feb. 5 results, should break
out like this at the end of the process to select at-large and PLEO
delegates:
- 8 additional AAPI delegates for Obama (5 at-large and 3 PLEO)
- 10 additional AAPI delegates for Clinton (6 at-large and 4 PLEO)
Of course at the end of the day with all the affirmative action goals and the rule that the gender split needs to be even, I won't try to venture a guess as to how many of our 8 Obama AAPI delegates will need to be women v. men.
For more info on the at-large and PLEO process and for application forms, go here. The deadline to apply is April 23.
For a list of AAPI's elected as district-level delegates this past Sunday, keep reading...
Results for Obama Caucuses are here. Based on people I know and names, here is the list of Obama district-level delegates who are AA/PI. Please comment on this blog if you know of more or if someone I list is not AA/PI.
Serena Kirk (CD5), Harpreet Sandhu (CD7), Brian Wang (CD8), Jennifer Pae (CD9), Molly Kawahata (CD14), Roger Hu (CD14), Jay Chen (CD38)
Results for Clinton Caucuses are here. Just going through the names, a very inexact science, I came up with the following AA/PI delegates for Clinton:
Nagaraja Rao (CD7), Jean Quan (CD9),
Raymond Buenaventura (CD12), Julie Wong (CD15),
Daljit Singh (CD21), Resham Singh (CD 22),
Nachhater Bhullar (CD26),
Mark Takano (CD44)
Again, this is not an exact list, but it's the best I could do for now :) I also could be missing Pacific Islanders and Filipinos. The last names are hard to tell sometimes!
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