October 15, 2023 Newsletter

CADEM Pre-Endorsement Voting Ballots have been sent on Saturday, October 14 to delegates and Democratic club voting representatives for Pre-Endorsements. If you did not get an email but were expecting one, there could be two reasons: There are no pre-endorsements in your area, because incumbents are running and were not pulled from the consent agenda. See here for a list of Assembly, State Senate, and Congressional elections that pre-endorsements are being done for. https://cadem.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-Pre-Endorsing-Conference-Assignments.pdf The email did not go through. Check your junk mail folder. If you still can’t find it, contact endorsements@cadem.org or call (916) 442-5707 M-F between 9am-6pm(PST).

Fall Endorsing Convention, November 17-19 in Sacramento Save the Date: The Fall Endorsing Convention is coming up! Registration and hotel reservations are available at www.cdpconvention.org . We will have a Caucus Meeting during the convention, date and time TBD. Candidates, ballot measure campaigns, and others that want to speak at our meeting may sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPpG4d9TQ0ZY8Y1r57Nex-sNUFYhDTQFPHmVelMJTjyfg2Uw/viewform

Meet our San Diego Vice Chair, Indroneal Bannerjee Dr. Indroneal (Indro) Banerjee (He/Him) is the current President of the Asian American Pacific Islander club of San Diego (San Diego County Democratic Party-Club of the Year 2022), a position he has held since 2020. He is also the Treasurer of the Clairemont Democratic club, and an Associate Member of the San Diego County Democratic Party’s Central Committee. Indro has also served as a California Democratic Party Assembly District Delegate since 2020. It is his belief that the AAPI Communities can be a force for positive change in the party and state. Indro is a trained Molecular Biologist, and for ~15 years worked as a bench scientist as several research centers (e.g., the NASA Ames Research Facility, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and UCSD School of Medicine). During this time, he earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology (University of South Carolina), Postdoctoral Fellowship, funding from NIH, AHA and Industry sources as well as published 27 peer-reviewed papers and over 30+ presentations. After leaving academics he has spent the last 8 years in life-sciences industry focusing in Medical Affairs. He also holds a BA in English, and a BS in Molecular Biology from San Jose State. Indro currently lives in San Diego his wife Fiona..

AC Transit Redistricting The next round of draft maps will be available on Tuesday, Oct 17, with another community workshop scheduled that evening and a board vote on Wednesday, Oct 25. actransit.org/redistricting

AAPI Events Calendar San Mateo County Asian American Pacific Islander Alliance Diwali Celebration Foster City Community Center, 1000 E Hillsdale Blvd on Friday, November 3 at 6:00pm. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/smcdiwali