Dangerous Ideas

This Saturday, a group of APIs will be getting together to show support for Aimee Allison, who’s running for Oakland’s District 2 City Council seat. This seat is particularly critical to Oakland politics for years to come – the other district council members are often split voting for or against progressive legislation. Allison, a solid progressive (much more so than her opponent in this runoff election, incumbent Pat Kernighan), would tip votes in favor of progressive issues. With progressive mayor-elect Ron Dellums coming into office (many of Dellums’ campaigners are on Allison’s campaign now), this would make for a solid team for the future. Allison has a good chance to win this election – she and Pat Kernighan ran pretty close to each other in the election.

The API community has a good chance of tipping the election in favor of one candidate or the other, since many APIs (particularly Chinese Americans) voted for Chinese American Candidate Shirley Gee, who came in third in the general election and didn’t make the runoff.

Update: The announcement for APIs for Aimee Allison is now available.