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It’s official: Andrew Yang is on Washington state’s ballot By Jason Cruz NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
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Andrew Yang is officially on the ballot in the state of Washington. Yang’s supporters filed the official paperwork with the offices of the Washington State Democrats on Nov. 15. He becomes the third democratic presidential candidate to officially complete the process of being on the election ballot this March for the primary to run for the President of the United States.
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A total of 2,341 signatures were gathered by Yang’s supporters on the streets of Seattle in order to put him on the ballot. The minimum limit is 1,000, but according to Yang volunteer Ben Stephens, the overage of signatures ensures that if any names are questioned or thrown out during the verification process, there would be ample amounts left to make the requisite limits. The signatures are scrutinized as they must be of valid, registered voters
The 2019 International Special Review District (ISRD) Board said 160 ballots were cast in its election on Nov. 19. Community members voted in three new board members. The winners are: — Russ Williams, Position 1 for a Business Owner, Property Owner or Employee. Williams works for a general contracting firm, based in Little Saigon. He believes that preservation is beneficial for preserving a community’s culture, as well as its local economy,
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VOL 38 NO 48 NOVEMBER 23 – NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Seniors lining up to vote
A study in contrasts: Do Chinatown projects get equal scrutiny? By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
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CID Coalition protest at Bush Garden on Aug. 27.
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Are all building projects in the boundaries of the ChinatownInternational District (ID) required to provide a community outreach report to the International Special Review District (ISRD)? That’s what Brien Chow wanted to know. He has served on the board of the Chong Wa Benevolent Association for over 15 years and he posed that question at the Nov. 12 ISRD board meeting. On the agenda was the proposed
Four Seas building on King St.
MSNBC omits Yang out of presidential poll graphic, again Entrepreneur Andrew Yang is currently in sixth place among 2020 Democrats in the latest Iowa poll from CNN and the Des Moines Register, with 3 percent of the vote, tying him with Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, along with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and billionaire donor Tom Steyer. But you may not know that if you watched MSNBC recently. MSNBC apologized on Nov. 17 after it left Yang off a presidential poll result graphic, with the network calling the error “inadvertent.” The same graphic included former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who polled at 2 percent, and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.,
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at 1 percent. Political commentator Ian Bremmer flagged the omission in a tweet to his nearly 450,000 followers, drawing the ire of Yang supporters on social media. “Why does @MSNBC keep leaving out @ AndrewYang on their graphics (actually at 3% here)? This has happened on a number of occasions, I haven’t seen with any other candidate. It’s not just a slip up. Unacceptable,” Bremmer wrote. After facing some blowback on social media, MSNBC apologized and redid the graphic. see MSNBC on 11
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