Yikes.
John Sexton at Hot Air reminded everyone about the two CNN reporters whose car was broken into in San Francisco last week while they made a report on the city’s crime.
On Tuesday, CNN aired the report, concentrating on how Asian Americans view Democrats in the country’s most liberal city. It’s not good:
Allene Jue used to vote in a simple, rapid manner – scan the names on the ballot and pick the Asian sounding names.
That was before 2020.
“Something turned on during the pandemic and lit a fire,” said Jue, a Chinese American mother of two girls, ages 3 and 5, living on the west side of San Francisco. Throughout the pandemic, Jue watched as violent hate crimes against Asian Americans brought fear to the community with not enough response from local law enforcement or prosecutors. As the school closures wore on and on in California, Jue saw her local school board discuss progressive policy issues like renaming schools ahead of focusing on simply returning students to the classroom.
Jue, who generally considers herself a Democrat, recalled her anger at liberal local politicians.
“They care about policies that don’t really help someone who just lives in the city and just want to be safe, who wants their kids to be educated well,” she said. “They forgot the core problems for regular people. I wanted to do something to try to change and take that power back. It was fear and frustration, a lot of frustration, that I turned into action.”
Her involvement began with stuffing envelopes for recall campaigns against the district attorney and several school board members and then grew – she even appeared in Chinese language campaign ads for a moderate Democrat running for city supervisor.
Charles Jung, a civil rights attorney and bay Area advocate, told CNN he witnessed the frustration: “Asian Americans feel like Democrats are focused on the wrong things, that they’ve let ideology run amok. If Democrats don’t redouble their efforts…
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