After 150 years of civic and political marginalization, Chinese Americans can no longer be discounted by any politician. This election has changed that.
Chinese voters are finally at the political table.
Brown and his supporters spent heavily for it. Business and community groups, he said, targeted 25,000 Chinese absentee voters, and 12,000 turned out. This allowed Brown to stay within his spending limit but still reach his targets. The Ammiano campaign also appeared to have given up on outreach to new voting bases in key ethnic communities, due perhaps to thinned out resources. Ammiano, meanwhile, seemed ill at ease at a large meeting of ethnic journalists arranged by New California Media.