As one of the higher-profile Indian-American candidates running for Congress next year, Trivedi estimates that 20 percent to 25 percent of the $127,500 he raised in the first three weeks of his campaign for Pennsylvania’s 6th District seat came from his connections to the Indian-American community. And he said he’s only begun to tap into the affluent ethnic network, which has recently become fertile fundraising ground. Fellow physician and Indian-American candidate Ami Bera raised more than $600,000 in five months for his campaign as a Democratic hopeful in California, while Kansas state Rep. Raj Goyle, also a Democrat, raised $403,000 in the past three months for his open-seat bid. According to Bhavna Pandit, a Democratic fundraiser who specializes in the Indian-American community, the influx of Indian-American candidates this cycle is unprecedented. “This is a deluge,” Pandit said. “We’ve never had this many people running for office. It’s kind of insane.”
As one of the higher-profile Indian-American candidates running for Congress next year, Trivedi estimates that 20 percent to 25 percent of the $127,500 he raised in the first three weeks of his campaign for Pennsylvania’s 6th District seat came from his connections to the Indian-American community. And he said he’s only begun to tap into the affluent ethnic network, which has recently become fertile fundraising ground.
Fellow physician and Indian-American candidate Ami Bera raised more than $600,000 in five months for his campaign as a Democratic hopeful in California, while Kansas state Rep. Raj Goyle, also a Democrat, raised $403,000 in the past three months for his open-seat bid. According to Bhavna Pandit, a Democratic fundraiser who specializes in the Indian-American community, the influx of Indian-American candidates this cycle is unprecedented.
“This is a deluge,” Pandit said. “We’ve never had this many people running for office. It’s kind of insane.”
For a community that has generally kept a low profile, this is a fantastic coming-out party.
And an anecdote. My family was thrilled when I decided to go to law school. The Latino community is still one plagued by low expectations and poor socio-economic advancement. But my (South Asian) Indian friends at Boston University were different -- they were the family pariahs. To a person, they were considered failures because their families expected them to go to either medical school or engineering school.
For Ruth Marcus and others, the problem isn't that Fox News is making a mockery of modern journalism; the problem is that the White House has acknowledged reality. The establishment, I'm afraid, is complaining about the wrong party here.
Remember, in DC, a "gaffe" is telling a truth that your Beltway cocktail party set would rather ignore.
The culture war is up for grabs. The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits, while secular saboteurs have shut down: they're too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids. Time, it seems, is on the side of the angels.
You expect that lame tripe at the Free Republic. Melissa McEwan:
Bill Donohue once came after me personally because I was a "secular saboteur"—a feminist, an atheist, an LGBTQI ally, an advocate of multiculturalism. I was to be destroyed—fired, discredited, bankrupted—because I was an enemy to the traditional values of this Christian nation. Fast forward two years, and more of America shares my views than ever before. Donohue's a relic and a joke. His column reads like the death rattle of a dinosaur lumbering toward extinction, so manifestly disassociated from anything resembling reality that it can't possibly be taken seriously by thoughtful people. It's almost enough to make me pity him.
Bill Donohue once came after me personally because I was a "secular saboteur"—a feminist, an atheist, an LGBTQI ally, an advocate of multiculturalism. I was to be destroyed—fired, discredited, bankrupted—because I was an enemy to the traditional values of this Christian nation.
Fast forward two years, and more of America shares my views than ever before. Donohue's a relic and a joke. His column reads like the death rattle of a dinosaur lumbering toward extinction, so manifestly disassociated from anything resembling reality that it can't possibly be taken seriously by thoughtful people. It's almost enough to make me pity him.
No pity here. More like "mild amusement".