Posted on 09/03/2004 10:59:12 AM PDT by Willie Green
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WASHINGTON: Several leading Indian Americans are part of a special committee announced by the Bush-Cheney campaign to re-elect President George Bush in the forthcoming November 2 presidential polls.
The newly constituted 75-member Asian Pacific American National Steering Committee (APANSC) is headed by Labour Secretary Elaine Chao.
The Indian Americans include the Republican Party's Zach Zachariah, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a cardiologist and a leading fundraiser; Raghavendra Vijayanagar, also a heart surgeon in Tampa, Florida, and founder and chairman of the Indian American Republican Council; Joseph Melookaran, a chartered accountant and businessman from Overland Park, Kansas; and Pakistani American Ahmed Kabani, a Miami-based hotel and tourism industry businessman.
A majority of members of the APANSC are of Chinese American descent as well as East Asian Americans.
Zachariah, director of cardiology at Holy Cross Hospital, is in the highly regarded "Ranger" category of fundraisers for the Republican Party, and formerly served on President Bush's White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islander Commission.
Vijayanagar, a member of the Florida Board of Medicine, is a member of the Asian Pacific Islander Commission and has received numerous awards including the 2004 Ellis Island Medal of Honour.
Melookaran is president of JMA Chartered and chairman of the Kansas City Asian American Chamber of Commerce as well as a member of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.
Kabana owns Miami Centre Travel Inc. and was recently appointed to the Miami Dade Community Relations Board. He is also president of the Pakistan American Chamber of Commerce in Florida and is co-chair of the Bush-Cheney '04 Florida Asian Pacific Americans.
Most analysts as well as the two opposing campaigns for the presidency believe it will be a close race in November. The campaigns are moving aggressively to get out the vote in a country where the voting public has generally been going less and less to the polls on election day.
I know many people from India; they are a great people with sound morals. We need more of them to immigrate to the U.S. I have yet to see one of them divorced or expecting handouts. They all have incredible work ethic and so many of them dream of coming to the U.S. God bless them!
(steely)
you too huh?
Then it's a good thing for Bush that John Wayne and Randolph Scott are dead.
Oh, wait, they're talking about the other Indians. Only a Hindu could write a title like that about the Methodist GWB.
Aint that just ducky....now we got Indian-Americans and American -Indians
I'm glad the members of my family are just plain good ole fashioned Americans
I thought they were supposed to speak English in India
but maybe a little something gets lost in translation.
uh-boy, now I'm confused.
They do speak English; they have to because they have umpteen bazillion native dialects. Welcome to the wonderful world of out-sourcing to India. Do you have any questions? You may call our so friend-like consultant at.......
Willie are you jealous? AS usual your headline has NOTHING to do wtih the article you posted...So the president has ethnic groups doing fund raising does that shock you? Seems to me that all you ever post are things that are negative about Bush, negative about conservatives, and just negative in general....so why do you bother?
There are many languages in India and a clipped and heavily accented form of English is spoken also....But what does that have to do with the HEADLINE (provided by you not the article)??? I notice you aren't posting any articles about people losing their jobs these days....sorry the news has been so good that you can't gripe about Bush except in this lame piece
This article is in very poor quality. First of all, the heading is misleading. It conveys the idea that Bush is heavily dependent on Indians for his re-election, which is not true. Secondly, republicans who are conservative will take exception to such notions and this will backfire on Indians, who are a small minority in the US.
Boy, does he know conservative Republicans or what?!. He must know that everyone here reads The Times of India and believes every word printed in it. My Republican precinct chairman will probably be calling me in the next hour, and I've got to leave to buy some cans of spraypaint....:)
Follow the link provided by Willie. He didn't make the title up.
I don't bother to click on links to see if some paper has a headline writer that is nonsensical....Willie refuses to comment when he posts stuff, he loves to post antiBush stuff ( notice how little there is for him to post about jobs this days) and so he does this hit and run piece from a foreign news source that shows no understanding of the American political process.....Willie just likes to post crap to see what folks will say...it gets boring because he adds very little else
The headline title is exactly what appears at The Times of India.
I notice you aren't posting any articles about people losing their jobs these days....
Posted just yesterday:
VF Jeanswear moves 1,000 El Paso jobs to Mexico
Continental Air to cut 425 jobs, warns on wages
Willie just likes to post crap to see what folks will say...
I post articles that are of interest and concern to forum participants.
Yes, I do enjoy other's commentary, as long as it's relevant to the topic.
Adolescent idiocy, such as yours, degrades the quality of discussion.
It's helpful to hear other viewpoints, we shouldn't be locked in a "Me, Too!" box because that would be intellectually deadening.
If Willie's threads irritate you there's an easy solution: don't click on 'em.
Peace, and best regards
Atleast they didn't say they were now bigger than the Beatles.
Help me out here... 25 years ago there was a SNL skit called "Tonto Goes to Oxford" -- the Don says "Tell me, Mr. Tonto, are you a 'Woo-Woo' Indian or an 'Injah' Indian?" A tomahawk slams into the blackboard inches from the Don's head. "I see," he says. "A 'Woo-Woo' Indian." Did I imagine this skit?
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