{"id":70917,"date":"2025-02-20T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=70917"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:17:56","slug":"chinese-candidates-running-for-california-democratic-party-leadership-roles-election-is-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=70917","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Candidates Running for California Democratic Party Leadership Roles. Election is this Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>February 19, 2025 (San Francisco)<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">On February 22 and 23 registered California Democratic Party voters will be able to select 14 Democrats from each Assembly District (AD) to represent them at the next two California Democratic Party conventions. This process, known as the Assembly District Elections Meeting (ADEM) election, helps shape the future of the Democratic Party and policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A previous deadline to register for online voting passed on January 31, 2025. Any remaining Democratic Party voters that failed to register for online voting by the January 31 deadline and still want to participate in the election must vote in person this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AD19 Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, representing the Westside of San Francisco and Daly City, is supporting three prominent Chinese activists. Alan Wong \u738b\u5146\u502b is currently an elected member of the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees and policy director at Children\u2019s Council of San Francisco. Adrianna Zhang \u5f20\u53ef\u83b9 is the former Chair for the San Francisco Youth Commission and Stanford University public policy student. Cliff Yee \u4f59\u7e7c\u4e2d is the Board President for The Richmond Neighborhood Center and founding Board Member for the San Francisco Parent Coalition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe California Democratic Party convention delegates elected from this process will set the future of the Party. I believe that the Party must listen and focus on the core issues of the Asian community, including high quality schools and public safety,\u201d said Wong, who is running for his fourth ADEM term. \u201cI will bring those very important topics to the Party\u2019s policy discussion. Don\u2019t miss the opportunity to vote this weekend!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AD17 Assemblymember Matt Haney, representing the Eastside of San Francisco, is also supporting three prominent Chinese activists. Hanley Chan \u9673\u570b\u6176 is a veteran who served in the US Navy and Army National Guard, and father currently serving as Director of Public Affairs for a veteran non-profit. John Maa\u00a0\u99ac\u570b\u83ef\u00a0is a general surgeon and former President of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society. Lan Fun Lau \u5170\u82ac\u5218 is an immigrant from China and has worked as an IHSS home care provider in San Francisco for more than 15 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Saturday, February 22 in person voting will be conducted at 1155 Mission, San Francisco, CA 94103 from 1pm-5pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Sunday, February 23 in person voting will be conducted at Ortega Branch Library 3223 Ortega Street, San Francisco, CA 94122.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Registered Democratic Party voters can show up at either location to vote, no matter which Assembly District they are voting in. More information on in person voting can be found at:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adem.cadem.org\/where-to-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.adem.cadem.org\/where-to-vote&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740155345249000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3eFEXebZKfUOEY-PqqRMny\">www.adem.cadem.org\/where-to-<wbr \/>vote<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2025 (San Francisco) &#8211;\u00a0On&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70918,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917\/revisions\/70918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}