John Chiang, the former treasurer of California, is starting a political action committee to help Asian-American and Pacific Islander Democrats get elected, he announced. - NBCAsianAmerica
California State Treasurer John Chiang, who is running for governor, speaks at a meet-and-greet in Westwood Park in Los Angeles, California, August 13, 2017.John Chiang, the former treasurer of California, is starting a political action committee to help Asian-American and Pacific Islander Democrats get elected, he announced Thursday.
The committee, ElectAAPI.org, aims to “take a stand against the discriminatory, right-wing agenda being propagated by the Trump administration,” according to his announcement. “Polls show that the values of AAPI voters align with the priorities of the Democratic Party, such as expanding access to health care, investing in higher education, expanding economic opportunity to communities of color, and fixing our broken immigration system,” Chiang, a Democrat
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