Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Reception

So yesterday I went with Doua to the Capitol Vistors Center for the CAPAC (Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus) Reception.

It was interesting to see the entire room filled with all the APA "must knows" . .

• Elected Officials -- Honda, Mineta, Cao, Scott (who I found out was 1/4 Filipino), Lee, Woolsey, etc. etc.
• EDs of all the APA alphabet soup organizations -- JACL, OCA, APAICS, CAPAC, NAPAWF, NaFFAA, etc. etc.

. . and last but not least, folks like me!

It was a reception to welcome the two new CAPAC members who have just been elected into Congress and who have just recently joined CAPAC. I forget who the person was from one of our territories . . but when Honda introduct Cao . . he repeatly pointed out that as a Republican, Cao makes CAPAC bipartisan.

I think at this point . . Cao probably needs as many friends as he can get. Seeing that he won the election because of some pretty special circumstances AND is facing a recall petition.