Via Priority Mail, December 22, 2015
The Honorable xxxx xxxx

Dear xxxxx:

The strength of America lies partly in individuals like you. You know full well the punishing nature of a presidential campaign and the immense challenge in the White House were you to become our president. Nevertheless, you offered your body and soul. As a citizen, I wish to pay you the deepest respect.

I am writing on behalf of The 80-20 Initiative (henceforth 80-20) to inquire your views on Asian Pacific American (APA) concerns. A questionnaire is enclosed. I hope you will endorse our aspirations promptly and unequivocally.

80-20 is by far the largest national APA political organization with an e-mail list of over 180,000 supporters. It is nonpartisan prior to endorsement and is dedicated to winning equal opportunity & justice for APAs through a SWING bloc vote. However, once 80-20 has endorsed a candidate, we become partisan.[1] We have used our emails, ethnic cable TV and radio to independently but most effectively support the endorsed candidate. Our endorsement criteria are objective. They are based on a candidate's response to our questionnaire and the record of service to the APA community by a candidate's political party in the past 4 years.

80-20 has the record of delivering four consecutive bloc votes in the years of 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. The following are exit polls published by New York Times. Note that Asian Americans favored the Republican presidential candidate in 1996 before 80-20 came on the scene in 1998. Afterwards, however, none of the GOP candidates were willing to answer 80-20's questionnaire. As a result, 80-20 endorsed a Democratic candidate in all four subsequent presidential elections, delivering large bloc votes. However, 80-20 is not tied to supporting Democrats.

How 80-20 changed Asian American voting in recent presidential elections:

1996 80-20 not yet in existence Clinton 43%/Dole 48% /others 8%

2000 Gore endorsed: +13 point gain Gore 54%/Bush 41%/others 4%

2004 Kerry endorsed: +12 point gain Kerry 56%/Bush 44%/others 0%

2008 Obama endorsed: +27 point gain Obama 62%/McCain 35%/others 3%

2012 Obama endorsed: +47 point gain Obama 73%/Romney 26%/others 1%

80-20 expects to deliver an even larger bloc vote to the candidate that we will endorse in 2016. We anticipate achieving our namesake and delivering 80% of the 3 million Asian American votes to the candidate endorsed by us.

See for yourself 80-20's effectiveness in a primary. Click on http://www.80-20initiative.net/success/media_mainstream_080215cnn.asp to see what CNN's Anderson Cooper had to say about its impact on Super Tuesday of 2008. In any Republican primary of many candidates, 80-20's bloc vote can easily make a decisive difference.

Political considerations aside, helping an American underclass achieve equal opportunity in the workplaces for their adults; in college admissions for their children; not to be racially profiled; and to attaining an equitable proportion of federal judges are the right things to do. You will just be honoring your pledge of allegiance to the flag that ends with " ... with liberty and justice for all." That is what our questionnaire is all about.

Sincerely,

Kathleen To
President (2007-2008) and Treasurer
The 80-20 Initiative
(830) 798-9302 kto@tstar.net

Cc: Board of Directors