r*********y
发帖数: 340 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: HIFU (花里胡哨), 信区: USANews
标 题: GOP开始拉拢华裔选民？
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Dec 26 11:37:21 2013, 美东)
Why Is the GOP Honoring the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
by Julianne Hing, Wednesday, December 18 2013, 3:05 PM EST
Who knew the GOP cares about the shameful legacy of the Chinese Exclusion
Act? The short answer: when votes are at stake. In a video House Republicans
released Wednesday, six lawmakers—Reps. Lynn Jenkins, Jeff Denham, Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen, Renee Ellmers, Cynthia Lummis and Frank Wolf—honored the 70th
anniversary of the repeal of the nation’s first immigration law to single
out for exclusion a single ethnic or racial group. But there’s no mention
of that history in the video.
Instead, they offer stock platitudes. “Today we honor and recognize the
hard work and perseverance of the Chinese-American community across the
nation…as we continue to build on our shared goal of an America that is
rich in opportunity and freedom,” lawmakers say in the video.
Ros-Lehtinen and Denham did sign on this fall to a comprehensive immigration
reform bill, but don’t mistake the video for a change of heart in the
party’s current stance on immigration either. Count it as just the most
recent in a line of Republicans’ not-so-secret overtures to Asian-American
voters. Earlier this year, the GOP issued a public statement recognizing
Diwali, the Los Angeles Times reported.
To Republicans, Asian Americans are an especially attractive but elusive
voting bloc. They’re not only the fastest-growing segment of the U.S.
population, they’re seen as a natural fit for the Republican party. Some
segments of the Asian-American population are comparatively wealthier than
other racial groups in the U.S. and are seen as fiscally and socially
conservative. But it hasn’t translated into votes. In the 2012 election, 77
percent of Asian-American voters voted for Barack Obama, and support for
the Democratic president swung upwards of 95 percent for some segments of
the population. It turns out that Asian-American voters care deeply about
immigration, and are paying attention to how both parties handle the issue. | r*********y
发帖数: 340 | 2 莫非抵制disney的全美抗议，让GOP认识到了华裔新移民的力量？不得而知。 | o**********e
发帖数: 18403 | | k****m
发帖数: 4670 | 4 abc事情不久后，总统还是副总统就去中国城，谈移民改革的事情，也算是安抚一下华
裔吧，所以，当然有人会意识到，毕竟也不少
【在 r*********y 的大作中提到】
: 莫非抵制disney的全美抗议，让GOP认识到了华裔新移民的力量？不得而知。
| k****m
发帖数: 4670 | 5 这才是正事，赞
【在 o**********e 的大作中提到】
: 好现象。 我们需要开始组织2014小选， 2016年的大选了。
: 选票上四两拨千斤。 2016准备好吧！
: http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/CivilSociety/3979.html
: osculation: 华人政治应该有中期目标---推动骆家辉选总统
: http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t0/CivilSociety/4669.html
: 让政客做梦都笑醒的建议:
: http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/CivilSociety/5781.html
: Waves of Congressional Seats Openning Up (2014)
: http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/Faculty/31559153.html
: dongdong1: WashingtonDC local election information:
| p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 6 太好了！
身边有点钱的华人基本都投共和党，支持降低福利，税收。华人的票该如何集中呢？我
个人来讲是无论如何也不愿意投共和党啊。 | o**********e
发帖数: 18403 | 7 We need to form a voter bloc. Before the primary election (for each party)
, we announce our endorsement for the best candidates in each party.
After the primary election, each major party will get a candidate for each
open seat, then we need to choose to endorse a candidate for each opening
seat.
Our job is to organize the turn-out of our voters and educate the voting
population about the issues that are core to our identity and our vision and
our values. We need to educate the candidates to respect our identity/
vision/values, judge the candidates on these issues (develop some metrics
to measure how close to our stand) and to vote them in or vote them out.
I created a form to ask for some voting related information and contacts:
http://goo.gl/c8Vu6E
We need to create a Chinese American voter issues survey. Choices are:
1. Publicized Apology for the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act + 20x Increase
in Immigration Quota for Chinese-Americans + Fast Track H1b Visa for
Chinese foreign students educated in America
2. Legislate Chinese-American week to celebrate Chinese-American
contribution to America
3. Chinese American candidates at every level
4. Renouncement of "Pivot to Asia" foreign policy with its anti-China
adversarial undertones. It does not say "China" but the target is clearly
China and we notice and are alarmed by its antagonist/militarist tendency
that will erode China-US trust and could embroil us into a potentially
dangerous conflict.
Imagine the Jewish people see Germany elect a neonazi Chancellor who
worships at Hitler's shrine and then see a "Pivot to Middle East" foreign
policy that calls for intensifying our cooperation with Germany, Iran, Saudi
Arabia and other Middle eastern countries. Would they stand by to idly
watch this happen? Or they will cry foul and vote against the candidate
that is associated with this extremely dangerous policy?
5. TPPP: the impact for China-US trade is not clear. The impact for US
domestic economy is not clear. Voters need better education on it. I need
better education on it. The idea that it's being developed
behind closed doors is VERY disturbing in a democracy. As
a part of the China-containment strategy, it's relevant to we Chinese-
Americans.
6. Any Anti-China or other anti-Chinese racist speech.
7. Obama already are relaxing some high tech exports to China.
China has been a partner/ally/friend for so long, it's ridiculous that
there's still a lot of export restrictions in peaceful space technologies.
A lot more military and civilian cooperation need to happen
between US and China to really safeguard against an accident.
We live in a small world, we need to safe guard it. Remember
Fukushima.
The voters are free to decide on their own preferred party/issues. But
they need to learn to weigh their various interests including their
ethnic identity and be educated on how the candidates stand on
issues particular to their ethnic identities. There will be conflicts,
maybe they like one candidate/party that is not endorsed by us, then
they need to figure out:
a. Hold their nose and vote according to voting bloc endorsement
b. vote their own pet candidate (perhaps knowing this candidate
might be a racist)
There are existing Chinese-American organizations like APAPA
and OCAnational (and others). We need to reach out to them and help
them organize the battleground states and locally in our own districts.
Technology savvy, ideas, votes, money, media connection, passion
and tolerance and patience. These are the foundations for equality
in a democracy. We asked for equality, we have to fight for it. | k****m
发帖数: 4670 | 8 最终的投票权还是个人自己的决定
我们可以做到的是：
在这里讨论每个竞选人的执政意图是否有利于我们
并扩大华人参政的范围，不管是自己去参选还是投票 |
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