What makes 80-20 effective

[Exhibit IIc] 80-20’s e-mail to mainstream and ethnic reporters urging them to “call the Transition Office to get its reaction.”

“Dear Media Friends:

Although 80-20's e-mail entitled "President Bush/.../Call for Action" has NOT yet reached 1/3 of its 230,000 supporters, a huge amount of e-mail form Asian Americans has apparently already poured into Bush's Transition Office. Although I didn't ask to be copied in, a certain fraction of people still copied me in. I was impressed with the diversity and quality of the respondents to our call for action.

Section (i) below provides a selected list of respondents showing diversity in ethnic background, gender and party affiliations. Section (ii) quotes some interesting e-mail. The first one is a must-read. It was by "a young Asian Wall Street investment banker" who ends his e-mail with a poignant plea: "I urge you to give our children this aspiration at your inauguration."

Please consider calling the Transition Office to get its reactionto these e-mails from Asian Pacific Americans. Thank you.

SB

[i] A selected list of APAs who e-mailed the Transition Office:

1) Vo Nguyen, MD
Sonia Lim, MD
Memorial clinic
Olympia, WA 98506

2) Akkaraju Sarma akkaraju@erols.com

3) Grace Tsung Whitcomb
1657 Firvale Avenue
Montebello, CA 90640

4) Simon Chen
Executive Vice President, Systems & Operations
Baseline Financial Services
Two World Trade Center, 78th Floor
New York, NY 10048

5) Astrid Szeto
11804 Enid Drive
Potomac, MD 20854

6) Peter Leung,
President, NAACP, Corvallis Chapter
peter@chinadelight.com

7) Quan Sheng Li, MD.
203 Monroe Dr.
Harleysville PA 19438

8) Sang Joo Kim (Director, Institute of Corea Am. Studies, ICAS)
icas icas@dvol.com

9) H. Qiu, Ph.D.
Columbus, OH

10) Yueh-Ting Lee, Ph.D.
405 North Fifth Street
Mankato, Minnesota

11) Patsy Gacrama, RN, BSN
15703 Barbarossa Drive
Houston, TX 77083-5413

(ii) Excerpts:

1) Dear Mr. President-elect,
I'm a young Asian Wall Street investment banker who just graduated from an Ivy League institution with an M.B.A. Just 15 years ago today, I was a teenager from a distant Southeast Asian country from a working class family. To get to where I am today, from where I was before, I crossed a long, convoluted path fraught with untold hard work, sacrifice, and sheer determination. During the last few decades, many Asians like myself have crossed this difficult path. And we have crossed it successfully as evidenced by our strong scholastic achievements and high income. Though our numbers are small, but in places of higher learning, in cutting-edge or blue chip businesses, our faces can be seen everywhere. By making the best of our lives, we have contributed to this nation.

However when I open the newspapers or turn on the TV, I almost never see a single Asian face amongst our high government officials. Only in bad times do our faces show up. Remember the Asian political financing scandal or the Wen-ho Lee spying fiasco?

I hope you can make a difference. We would like to be recognized for our contribution by having some representation at the highest level of government. We would like to show our children that they too can someday aspire to play a role in our government. I urge you to give our children this aspiration at your inauguration.

Respectfully yours,
Wen-Tzen Lim
Geoffrey Wen-Tzen Lim wentzen@yahoo.com

2) "I am a faithful Asian American Republican member, I voted for your father years ago for President and voted again for you on November 7, 2000. It is rather disappointing that I have not seen you appoint one SINGLE Asian American in your Cabinet. ."
Margaret Y. Chang
4108 Seacor Court
Oakland, CA 94605-3714

3) "As Asian Americans continue to strive for recognition throughout the United States, we remain deeply troubled by the lack of Asian-American representation in our government."
Benjamin B. Choi, Esq.
2227 Jones Road
Fort Lee, NJ 07024

4) "I am a Texas resident, a US citizen (an Asian-American), and a Bush supporter for the past 3 elections. However, I was extremely disappointed when Bush-Cheney did not appoint an Asian Pacific American cabinet member."
Gordon D. Luk, M.D.
LukGordon@hotmail.com