Guess our esteemed colleague doesn’t realize that SF does have a lot of Asians everywhere.

A Lawmaker’s Legacy
S.F. mourns the death of its first elected Asian American supervisor
http://asianweek.com/042398/bay1.html

My point still stands though – no Asian American or Chinese American has specifically been elected to represent the very symbolic Chinatown San Francisco – the oldest and largest “Chinatown” in the United States.

@jozjozjoz – as I had said, I am *generally* happy that Asian Americans *are* elected to public office *because* Asian Americans *are* generally not as involved in civic and community service. This is a fact that I have unfortunately observed while being active in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had commented or blogged when I met another Asian American who had volunteered for the Obama campaign and he said when he was phone banking, he was the only Asian American volunteer, despite the fact that Asian Americans in most communities in the Bay Area represent 15% to 25% of the population on the peninsula / Silicon Valley.

Yes, it is nice to see an active Vietnamese American community in San Jose, despite the efforts to recall Madison Nguyen.

Gordon Lau, for one, represented all of SF, including C-Town of course, when we had at-large elections.

Two people have represented this particular district in all of history – John Molinari and Aaron Peskin. David Chiu will be the third.

Speaking of which, the Little Saigon area has been very good in the recent past in electing Vietnamese Americans into office.

PS – With regard to your statement “I am generally happy whenever an Asian American (Republican or Democrat) is elected to public office since I have often blogged about the lack of Asian American involvement in civic duty as well as public office.”

I don’t think you should blindly support people based on race. Asian American or not. Likewise, I don’t think women should vote for women, solely based on gender. If we want to get anywhere in this country, we should do what many people did in the Presidential Election of 2008: LOOK BEYOND RACE AND VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THEY BELIEVE IN.

Also, I wish you would stop talking about the “lack of Asian American involvement in civic duty.” The more you say things like that, the more people believe it.

The truth is, Asian Americans ARE involved in civic matters; I mean you blog about Asian Americans in politics ALL THE TIME!

Please stop perpetuating myths about “uninvolved Asian Americans!” You give the ones who are involved a bad rap!

Also, Mike Honda’s district in Silicon Valley is heavily Asian, as it includes Milpitas, Cupertino, and North San Jose.

I am generally happy whenever an Asian American (Republican or Democrat) is elected to public office since I have often blogged about the lack of Asian American involvement in civic duty as well as public office.