SAN FRANCISCO – About 30 Filipino-American seniors from all over the Bay Area
gathered Thursday morning at a community center in a largely Filipino enclave in
the heart of San Francisco’s South of Market district.
Along with their
regular breakfast and a mental health workshop, Rudy Asercion, who directs the
West Bay Filipino Multi-Services Inc., also served up a good dose of politics,
rallying them to register and vote. He also invited them to the center that
evening to watch the vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan in
their first and only televised debate.
A recent national survey of Asian
American voters found that Filipinos show the highest level of support for GOP
presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney. But, at this local debate-watching
party at West Bay, opinions are split among supporters of him and Pres. Obama ,
with some voters still undecided about whom to support.
Watching the
debate, Asercion says Congressman Ryan hammered two key issues that resonate
strongly with the Filipino electorate: the economy and health
care.
Asercion is the chair of the National Organization of
Filipino-American Republicans and an elected member of the San Francisco
Republican Party Central Committee.
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