In Opinion: While the results of several races are still unclear, this November’s city election demonstrated once again the political power of San Francisco’s Asian Americans, particularly its Chinese American voters.
Portia Li, editor of San Francisco’s Wind bilingual Chinese-English newspaper, wrote on November 10, “Although Engardio is not Chinese, he has gained many Chinese American friends and supporters through the recall of the school board movement since last year. Many Chinese American parents were silent in the past, but the recall of the school board movement woke them up.”
Engardio, an early supporter of the school board recall effort, had much of his work covered in the local Chinese print and television media. Many volunteers for his campaign worked with Engardio in the earlier recall efforts. Chinese American volunteer Kit Lam noted that monolingual elders told him that they would vote for Engardio after seeing Cantonese advertisements on KTSF Channel 26 featuring Lam encouraging such a vote.
Precinct and neighborhood early results confirm Li’s assessment. With the many incidents of Asian hate in the news recently, public safety was the top issue for Asian American voters in a recent fall poll sponsored by the San Francisco Standard. District Attorney candidates John Hamasaki , Maurice Chenier, Joe Alioto Veronese and mayoral appointee Brooke Jenkins all worked to secure Asian American votes.
Mayor-appointed Board of Education Commissioner Ann Hsu volunteered to help sign up many new non-citizen voters in advance of the February school board recall. While she was widely pilloried for poorly worded statements early in the election campaign, she raised tens of thousands more than the other five school board candidates in this election.
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