Comments on: King County Executive candidates Constantine and Hutchison address Asian American concerns

By: niche market

niche market — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:16:13 +0000

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By: Kenzie

Kenzie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:47:34 +0000

sorry Mark, you still have not convinced me to vote for Dow. The Asian community making or breaking elections is a myth. We are still outnumbered 3-to-1, most asians don’t bother to vote or not registered. there are many asian republicans in king county. Dow never hires affirmatively, he can’t budget either. I love how he spends my property tax dollars to fund his district ferry system. I enjoyed watching Susan on KIRO over the years, if she was ever a racist in my face I would say something.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:35:42 +0000

THE ASIAN COMMUNITY NEEDS TO VOTE FOR DOW CONSTANTINE AS A BLOC AND STOP HUTCHISON!!! The use of the term “Chinatown” shows ignorance on Hutchison’s part. She should know better given how long she has lived in this area, and as a former newscaster you would think she would be more informed. “Chinatown” lumps all the Asians together instead of recognizing different groups (such as Vietnamese and Cambodians) who work or live in the International District. Generalizing about Asians is associated with racist attitudes. I strongly suspect that Hutchison has racist attitudes about Asians and other minorities. She complained in a lawsuit about her replacement at KIRO being Asian. She made a comment at a Seattle Center event suggesting that a performer who was of Asian/Native American descent could not be American (see 9/19/09 11:11 am email comment to 9/19/09 Seattle Times article regarding election) How many times have we as Asians been told we can’t be real Americans? This is a racist attitude and someone who thinks like that has no place running for office. She commented on a radio show that voters should write in Bill Cosby’s name for president instead of Barrack Obama (see 6/11/09 Federal Way Indep. Examiner Boye Coker Article). She lumps them together because of race instead of recognizing them as individuals. She did not appear at a minority event citing some unknown “schedule conflict” (Seattle Times September 18). She went to high school in the South (Virginia). No this doesn’t mean all people from the South are racists. But if you look at her other issues it does make you wonder if she picked up some racist attitudes while growing up there. She has some Asian names backing her up. She is just using these people as tokens and she is an expert at covering up who she really is. A poll from September shows that almost 50% of Asians are voting for her. This shows that many Asians do not realize that there is a huge trust and comfort level difference between Hutchison and Constantine when it comes to race issues. As an Asian it makes no sense to vote for someone who could be racist about Asians. Anyone of any race who cares about fairness and equality for all races should not be voting for Hutchison. Dow is behind by about 5 points in the polls. The Asian community can make or break the election.

By: John Wong

John Wong — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:49:42 +0000

According to King County’s website, Dow has a staff of 4, so I’m not going to fault him for not having an Asian on staff. It may have been called Chinatown in the past, but it’s not now, and I like it even though I’m Chinese. I want my vote to go to the person that shares my values, and Hutchison clearly DOES NOT. She’s anti-abortion, homophobic, and believes creationism needs to be taught in schools. She may have whitewashed her image for this election, but even how she answered the questions related to race in this interview clearly demonstrate her ignorance of diversity.

By: Kenzie

Kenzie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:06:38 +0000

John Wong — I was born and raised in Seattle, and Chinatown came before International District. The late Ruby Chow and former King County Councilwoman wanted the distinction of Seattle’s Chinatown to remain “Chinatown”. Less than a decade ago, the official name of this neighborhood is International District/Chinatown. Dow’s been on the council for years and there’s no asian-american on his staff, not even an intern. (I hope the International Examiner folks are reading this) He can brag about allocating funding to ACRS, REWA etc. but the truth is, Ron Sims and his staff deserve the credit, they included these programs in the executive’s annual budget for the council to approve year after year, until now, where the money has now dried up and every social service program is in jeopardy.

By: John Wong

John Wong — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:46:57 +0000

I feel the need to correct Hutchison. As long as I’ve been in Seattle, it’s been called the International District, not Chinatown. And Hutchison’s quotes, “I patronized a number of Asian businesses…” and “…I look forward to hiring and promoting Asian Americans…” are just that, patronizing. She also said at a candidate forum I attended that she would put an “endorse to Approve Referendum 71″ on her website, and there is nothing there.