Political Secrets IV: Chinese Spies Everywhere!

A week ago, USA Today's started a Special Report. Its front page top
headline screamed "Combat Chinese Spying."
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2007-07-22-china-spy-1_N.htm?csp=34
Two days later, Part 2 of the Report headlined
"Against China's Tech Spies." In San Francisco, FBI placed ads in
Chinese papers seeking information on persons and events endangering
our national security.

Is there a chilling effect on Asian Ams, and particularly Chinese Ams?
You bet. Will such articles have adverse effects on our lives? You bet.

Under such an atmosphere, are we likely to enjoy equal opportunity in
workplaces? No way. Ask yourself, does your boss care more about
your career or his/her own career? What is easier? Shoulder the possible
liability of having promoted a Chinese industrial or military spy? Or, not
promoting you at all? If you are Asian but non-Chinese, ask yourself,
does your boss differentiate one Asian from another? Vincent Chin, a
Chinese American, was bashed to death by a baseball bat because two
Detroit autoworkers took him to be a Japanese.

80-20 doesn't get into the US foreign policy. However, 80-20 stands four
square to protect equal opportunity and justice for all Asian Americans!

The political secret is: YOU MUST GET INVOLVED NOW when the
presidential candidates need our bloc vote and are therefore willing to
share our concerns. That was why 80-20 PAC sent questionnaires to
presidential candidates asking them to promise in writing the vigorous
enforcement of Exec. Order 11246. 3 of the 8 Democratic presidential
candidates have already given 80-20 their iron-clad promises. Visit:
http://www.80-20initiative.net/preselect2008.html . Under EO 11246,
statistics are used to measure objectively whether Asian Americans enjoy
equal opportunity in workplaces.

Here is how 80-20 EF views the alarming situation.

Protecting national security is important. However, if the equal
opportunity and civil liberties of 13 million Asian Ams. are being
trampled upon in the process, we are throwing out the baby together
with the bath water. That must stop. 80-20 EF will fight it.

80-20 will write the Director of FBI, Justice Department and media
such as USA Today and CNN. They include questions:

In peace time, is there a more sensible way to guard against the
stealing of our technical crown jewels?

Does America spy on other nations, militarily and economically?
What if China pulls these mirroring acts against Americans and American
Chinese in China? Would our government consider such acts as the
demonizing of the U.S.?

Which nation spies on America's military hardware more? Israel, Russia
or China? For the same amount of Chinese spying, if China is not a
powerful nation, and/or if Asian Americans were politically as strong as
Jewish Americans, would the same subject matter be handled more
sensitively?

Fellow Asian Americans. Do we want equal opportunity and justice? Do
we want to live free of fear and suspicion? Act to support 80-20 yourself
and getting others to support. Share your view at
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html. Thanks.

S. B. Woo
President, 80-20 Educational Foundation

Political Secrets III: Horse-Trading With Presidential Candidates

Using votes to horse-trade with presidential candidates is legal so
long as it is NOT for personal gains. That was how American Forefathers
have intended for our elections to achieve - give the "little people" the
power of the ballot box to induce politicians to do the right things for
them.

What do AsAms have to swing trade?

That is why 80-20 PAC organizes a bloc vote - our community's asset
for a political trade.

How does 80-20 make a trade?

80-20 sends questionnaires to presidential candidates. If they reply
in WRITING with Iron-clad promises to improve the lot for Asian Ams, then
80-20 will help them back in th elction.

What a great trade 80-20 is making for you:

See below how relevant and powerful 80-20's questions are to YOUR
welfare. For the entire questionnaire of 6 questions and its cover
letter, visit http://www.80-20initiative.net/preselect2008.html to see
their signed answers.

Question 3: Two years after you have issued a directive to the Labor
Secretary to enforcement Exec. Order 11246 for Asian Ams, will you meet with
a group of Asian Pacific American leaders, put together jointly by 80-20 and
the Labor Department, to review the progress in extending equal opportunity
to Asian Pacific Americans? Please answer Yes or No.

Question 4: If elected, will you within your first term of office increase
the nomination of qualified Asian Americans to serve as Article III life-
tenured federal judges, such that the number of such Asian American
judges is proportionate to HALF the number of Asian Americans in the
United States (2%)? [This'll roughly triple the number of AsAm Federal
judges.] Please answer yes or NO.

Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, both chairmen
of powerful senate committees, have each replied with the iron-clad
promise of 6 yeses! For their signed answers, visit
http://www.80-20initiative.net/preselect2008.html.

Do NOT help any other presidential candidate until they've also given
80-20 their iron-clad promises. With YOUR HELP, 80-20 is confident to
get iron-clad answers from most major presidential candidates. We'll
help those who share our concerns win, and make sure that others lose.
The end result? Our next president will be a one of the candidates who has
given 80-20 the iron-clad promise to treat AsAms as equal citizens.

If you know of friends helping OTHER presidential candidates, ask
them if they have gotten similar iron-clad WRITTEN promises from those
OTHER candidates. If not, ask them "Why not?" Ask them not to
sabotage our shared dream to win equal opportunity and justice through
the 2008 election! History will judge!

Forward this SECRET to your friends! 80-20 empowers YOU. Do you
know of other organizations that empower you as much? Thanks.


S. B. Woo
President, 80-20 Educational Foundation

PS Have you suggestions for the questionnaire? Voice it via
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html.

Political Secrets II: We Are the Kingmakers in Calif. Presidential Primary.

No one who has read "Political Secrets I" can fail to be impressed
with the power of a bloc vote. To review the earlier email, visit
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html. Here's
a bigger secret - the ABSOLUTE power of our bloc vote in the 2008
presidential primaries in California, and lesser power in a few other states.

The difference between a GENERAL and a PRIMARY Election:

The PRESIDENT is chosen by ALL voters in the GENERAL
election. ONLY the party NOMINEEs are chosen in separate party
PRIMARIES. In some states, only party members (those registered as R or
D) may vote in respective party primaries. In other states, (Calif. , New
Hampshire, W. Virginia, …, etc.) Independents may ALSO vote in a primary
by simply asking for a ballot. (Calif. refers to Independents as Declines.)

Why do AsAms have more voting clout in a primary?

Reasons are: a) in a primary election, there are many more candidates
competing for our votes (11 Republicans and 8 Democrats so far). b), the
number of voters is normally halved, because non-activists don't bother to
vote in primaries. c), the number of AsAm voters will actually double,
because in many states including Calif., at least the Democratic
Party allows "Independents" to vote in its party primary. Another secret:
while only 25% of the voter are Independents nationally, it is 43% for
AsAms. We also register 33% as D and 25% as R. 80-20 will use its emails
to drive all AsAms Independents to go vote for its endorsed candidate in
states where Ind. may vote in primaries, particularly in Calif.

Summary: In a primary, the number of other voters will be halved
and are spread among many candidates. Our number of voters will
double and they'll bloc vote for the candidate endorsed by 80-20.
With your help, we SHALL be the kingmakers in presidential PRIMARIES. If
80-20 endorses one of the two top candidates in the Democratic primary
in CA, that candidate will win! Stop. Period.

Do other minorities have this kind of voting clout in a primary?

No, although Hispanics have a larger population. The others don't have
the email list to reach and persuade their voters in primaries when the
choice is large and the attention span of voters is short. 80-20, using emails,
can reach at least 50% of AsAm registered voters again and again.

Who will Benefit?

This power is NOT used for 80-20. YOU & YOUR CHILDREN will benefit.
America will be "a more perfect Union." We want only equal opportunity.

Help 80-20 back:

Was this email informative? Have you questions? Post your feedback at
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html and pass
this SECRET about our ability to become kingmakers in presidential
PRIMARIES to your friends and relatives! Tell them that unity is power.
Tell them to vote for 80-20's endorsed candidate. Unite! A historic
opportunity is at hand.

In Secrets III, we'll tell you how 80-20 uses this voting clout to horse-trade
with presidential candidates for equal opportunity for ALL Asian Ams.
Forward this email. Thank you.

S. B. Woo,
President
80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc.

Political Secrets I: Why is a bloc vote so powerful?

Once a month, you'll read here political secrets that made Cuban
Americans & Jewish Ams who are so small in numbers and yet so powerful
politically. This series is designed to empower YOU politically so that
TOGETHER we'll win equal opportunity and justice in America. S. B. Woo

Subject: Why is a bloc vote so powerful?

David Broder, America's most respected political columnist, stated that
a bloc vote is "one of the unnoticed glories of American life." Why?
Because a bloc vote can make a small minority politically powerful
enough to protect themselves.

A bloc vote is, in the short run, much more effective than giving millions
of $$$ to politicians and/or registering tens of thousands of new voters
each year. Here is why.

One year, a Democratic presidential nominee (DPN) was running against
a Republican nominee (RPN) in a certain state which has 12 million
voters. That state had a small Jewish Am. community of 1 million votes.
It could deliver a bloc vote of 80-20 to its endorsed candidate. The
general community had 11 millions votes but didn't practice bloc votes.

The DPN decided to focus on the general community. The RPC decided
to focus on the Jewish community. When the ballots were counted, the
DPN won the general community by a margin of 52% to 48%. (Recall that
the last two presidential elections resulted in much smaller margin of
difference than that.) Hence the DPN had a 4% advantage in the
11 million votes, or a winning margin of 440,000 votes.

The RPN won the Jewish vote by a margin of 80% to 20%. Hence the
RPC had a 60% advantage in 1 million voters. That is a net advantage of
600,000 votes. As a result, the RPN won!

Wow, the power of a bloc vote!

Actually, the above is NOT about a "certain state and Jewish Ams." It is
about "California and Asian Ams." AsAms in CA are 8% of CA's 12
million votes which are just about1 million votes! The story is about our
political power when we practice a bloc vote!

All presidential candidates understand the power of a bloc vote. That
was why 9 of the 11 presidential candidates in 2004 answered 80-20's
questionnaire in 2004 with YES/YES/YES. Their promises were in writing
and signed! Go see the signatures and what they had promised AsAms:
http://www.80-20initiative.net/preselect2004.html.

The above is the proof of the power of "Political Secret I."

Bush and Sharpton were the two who didn't respond positively.
Bush felt he could give up on CA and spend his money & effort more cost
effectively in Florida and Ohio. Too bad for us in 2004. BUT! 2008 is a
very different year.

GOP can no longer count on the "solid" South and Mid-West. Many
political experts have predicted that a RPN must try to win in CA.
Hence, GOP will have to either work with us or lose Calif and with it the
White House.

WITH YOUR HELP, 80-20 aims to use a bloc vote to get all presidential
candidates of 2008 to pay much more attention to our concerns!

More political secrets to come! Forward this SECRET now! Ask
your friends to join us in a bloc vote in 2008.

Was this email informative? Have you questions? Post your feedback at
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html. I need
your feedback! Thanks.

S. B. Woo,
President, 80-20 EF (80-20 EF can tell you political secrets, but may NOT
endorse political candidates. Only 80-20 PAC can endorse. )

Adopt an ABSOLUTE standard to measure your success

SUMMARY of the Last Email:
Last month, we discussed how AsAms tended to use a
RELATIVE Standard, R.S., comparing our career achievement against
those of our friends/relatives, mostly fellow Asian Americans. Such a
system generates jealousy, hinters networking, lets others decide how
you want to apply yourself, and results in a splintered AsAm
community.

To switch to an ABSOLUTE STANDARD, A.S., we need to:

1. Set an absolute goal, but be flexible about the timeline to achieve the
goal. The higher the goal, the more you'll realize that you'll need help
to achieve it. Hence, the more you'll network; and admire the skills of
your friends/relatives rather than being jealous.

2. Tell your goal to at least one person e.g. your spouse or a parent, if you
mean it. President Clinton told his wife about becoming the President
years before he ran.

3. Help others whenever you can. The more you help others, the more
you'll receive help from others to achieve your career goal.

4. Be subtle and patient in relating your goal to others in your network.
Don't let people think that you are rash or not realistic, or boasting.

Once you practice steps 1 to 3, you may feel like a different person.
You'll be confident, full of positive outlook towards the people around
you. Needless to say, an A.S. doesn't guarantee success. It does, however,
eliminate many self-imposed harmful baggage like jealousy and letting
others decide how you'll apply yourself.

Here are 3 examples showing the many differences between persons/orgs
practicing R.S. versus R.S..:

I) For an entry level professional in a company or university:

R.S. He is contemptuous of an AsAm Senior Scientist or Chaired Professor
in his workplace, considering him/her as an "operator" with less
technical skills than he has. The senior AsAm senses it.

A.S. He cultivates this senior AsAm professional and gets him/her to be
his mentor. After one year, he shares one or more of the following career
goals with the mentor:
No. of years spent in academia before getting tenure
No. of years spent in academia to become a Department Head
Salary received vs. average regional salary received by peers

II) For the president of an AsAm civic organization or company:

R.S. He wants to prove that he is better than the last AsAm president. So
he badmouths her and changes things for changing's sake.

A.S. He declares to accomplish one or more of the following goals upon
taking the office:
Set a record for higher earning or membership for the next year
Get a top rating in a survey of "Customers/Membership Satisfaction"
Declare to achieve a big goal that most thought to be impossible.
Having declare his goal and knowing how difficult it will be, he courts the
past president and presidents of sister organizations/companies to get
them to help him achieve the declared goal.

III) For An AsAm elected official:

R.S. She wants to show that she is the most popular and influential AsAm
official in her County. So she badmouths and fights with almost all the
other AsAm elected officials in the county, while getting little done for
the AsAms in her election district.

A.S. She wants to be an US Senator in 15 years. Knowing that it'll take
help from AsAms nationwide, especially in fundraising, she goes out of her
way to help other AsAms, forge unity for the entire AsAm community,
and serves its critical needs to establish a good track record. She of course
also networks with non-AsAm politicians as much as she can.

You be the judge. Which achievement standard is better for you?

Keep your feedbacks coming through our POSTER BOARD
Visit http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html.
A new feature was added. You can react to my emails and/or others'
feedbacks. Be polite please -- Make this a garden where we together grow
HEALTHY SEEDS for our community. See also past feedbacks. Thanks.

S. B. Woo
President, 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc.

How Do You Measure Your Career Success

This is my first communication with you as the President of 80-20
Educational Foundation. I'm no longer the President of 80-20 PAC. The
focus of my messages will shift from political actions to educational
endeavors. However, the goal will be the same -- urging AsAms to strive
on and become an equal partner in the shaping of the American Dream.

See if you approve of my first attempt below. Post your feedback by
visiting http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html.
It will help me and be read by other 80-20 supporters.

For today, let's talk about "How Do You Measure Your Career Success?"

Most of us are smart, well educated, and have good work-ethics. How
come statistically AsAms still face a very low glass ceiling at work? So few
AsAm Federal and State judges? Our kids face a higher admission bar?

The apparent reason is that we lack political maturity and unity. The
real reason is that we use the WRONG STANDARD to measure our career
success. Let me illustrate.

Something in our culture has induced most of us to measure our
career success by a RELATIVE STANDARD. We compare our own
career achievement with those of our best friends, closest relatives,
classmates and colleagues. With such a standard, when some of them are
more successful than us, we feel like failures in comparison. With that
frame of mind, can we ever succeed in networking? No way. We will not
help "them," because we will be failures in comparison. Naturally then,
"they" will not help us.

Do you agree that climbing ladders in America depends heavily on net-
working? Do you agree that the best persons to network with will be your
best friends, closest relatives, former classmates and former/current
colleagues?

We need to adopt an ABSOLUTE standard of measuring our career
success -- a standard adopted by most Americans of non-Asian extraction.

What is the absolute standard? How would that help?

In an absolute standard of measuring career success, one sets a goal e.g.
"within x years I want to achieve a particular career goal." One then
joins or establishes a network while sharing one's career ambition with
members of the network asking for help and helping back. In such a
relationship, the successes of one's friends/relatives/colleagues become
one's own power base to achieve career goals. The more successful they
are, the more they are in a position to help YOU succeed.

When AsAms switch from a relative to an absolute standard of
measuring career success, we, as AsAm individuals, will begin to work
together. If AsAm organizations begin to set absolute standard for its
organizational achievement, AsAm organizations will begin to work
together, which will lead to unity within our community. UNITY IS POWER.
Power is what we need to eliminate the glass ceiling and higher admission
bar.

Post your feedback & comments please. It's time that Asian Americans
discuss openly our stupid relative standard of measuring success. The
price for it is a splintered community, meekly and helplessly accepting a
low glass ceiling for ourselves and a higher admission standard for our
kids.

In addition, a relative standard is a self-imposed limitation on one's
own career. An absolute standard frees you from that limitation and
the consuming jealousy.

PREVIEW for next email: "How to switch to an absolute standard & win."

ANNOUNCEMENT: S. B. Woo will keynote an AAJA/NAAAP banquet on
May 19 in Philadelphia. Topic: Group Political Clout. Email
aajaphilly@yahoo.com for more information.