2 more Fil-Am women running in US elections
CHICAGO, Illinois – Two more Filipino-American women were reported running for elective positions, bringing up to at least seven the number of Filipino-American women taking part in the US general elections Tuesday, according to Romy Marquez, publisher-editor of Philippine Village Voice, a fortnightly based in San Diego, California.
Those running for office are Mitz Lee, who is running for re-election at the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education, and Ditas de los Santos Yamane, who joined a crowded field of eight candidates contesting two vacant slots in the city council of National City, California.
The other Filipino-American candidates are Chicago-area real estate lawyer Aurora Abella Austriaco, a Democrat running against a Republican incumbent Rosemary Mulligan as representative of the 65th district of Illinois; Conchita Applegate, who is candidate for California State Assembly, District 12; Cheryl Moss, who is running for re-election as a District Judge of Las Vegas, Nevada, Myrna Lim, candidate for Supervisor, District 11 (San Francisco), and Noelani Sallings, candidate for Santa Clara, California Unified School Board.
Lee, who hails from Quezon province, is married to a retired Navy officer. She is running for re-election to the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education. She was first elected to the Board in 2004, winning 94% in all precincts citywide collecting nearly 166,000 votes.
She ran under a mandate to return common sense to academics; to restore civility to Board deliberations; to find an educator for Superintendent; to require fiscal restraint and district accountability and to increase parent involvement in the public education of children.
Lee also called for an end to extravagant use of expensive extraneous curriculum consultants; for strengthening the district's own fraud investigation capability (including a fraud-reporting hotline); for auditing the former Superintendent's slush funds; for effective use of charter schools as vehicles for parent choice, innovation and competition; for securing public school sites where Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts may meet.
Her efforts merited a feature on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on April 13, 2006.
Lee, 53, holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in financial management from the National University.
She is married to retired US Navy Commander Jeff Lee. They have raised two sons, Scott and Jeff, both of whom were educated in San Diego public schools, became Eagle Scouts, and now attend colleges in California.
Ditas Yamane, 45, is running for a council seat at National City to promote governance and to give women a role in bringing development to the city. She owns three businesses in telecommunications, real estate and marketing. A business owner in National City since 1991 and a resident since 2001, Ms. Yamane serves on the board of directors for the National City Chamber of Commerce.
Yamane said her commitment to serve is based on seeing redevelopment, youth programs, education and public safety thrive.
Council members serve part time, meeting on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. They make about $22,600 a year for their service on the council and Community Development Commission. That does not include expense account money, which totals $700 a month from the city and CDC. - GMANews.TV
Those running for office are Mitz Lee, who is running for re-election at the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education, and Ditas de los Santos Yamane, who joined a crowded field of eight candidates contesting two vacant slots in the city council of National City, California.
The other Filipino-American candidates are Chicago-area real estate lawyer Aurora Abella Austriaco, a Democrat running against a Republican incumbent Rosemary Mulligan as representative of the 65th district of Illinois; Conchita Applegate, who is candidate for California State Assembly, District 12; Cheryl Moss, who is running for re-election as a District Judge of Las Vegas, Nevada, Myrna Lim, candidate for Supervisor, District 11 (San Francisco), and Noelani Sallings, candidate for Santa Clara, California Unified School Board.
Lee, who hails from Quezon province, is married to a retired Navy officer. She is running for re-election to the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education. She was first elected to the Board in 2004, winning 94% in all precincts citywide collecting nearly 166,000 votes.
She ran under a mandate to return common sense to academics; to restore civility to Board deliberations; to find an educator for Superintendent; to require fiscal restraint and district accountability and to increase parent involvement in the public education of children.
Lee also called for an end to extravagant use of expensive extraneous curriculum consultants; for strengthening the district's own fraud investigation capability (including a fraud-reporting hotline); for auditing the former Superintendent's slush funds; for effective use of charter schools as vehicles for parent choice, innovation and competition; for securing public school sites where Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts may meet.
Her efforts merited a feature on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on April 13, 2006.
Lee, 53, holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in financial management from the National University.
She is married to retired US Navy Commander Jeff Lee. They have raised two sons, Scott and Jeff, both of whom were educated in San Diego public schools, became Eagle Scouts, and now attend colleges in California.
Ditas Yamane, 45, is running for a council seat at National City to promote governance and to give women a role in bringing development to the city. She owns three businesses in telecommunications, real estate and marketing. A business owner in National City since 1991 and a resident since 2001, Ms. Yamane serves on the board of directors for the National City Chamber of Commerce.
Yamane said her commitment to serve is based on seeing redevelopment, youth programs, education and public safety thrive.
Council members serve part time, meeting on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. They make about $22,600 a year for their service on the council and Community Development Commission. That does not include expense account money, which totals $700 a month from the city and CDC. - GMANews.TV
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