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Harmeet Kaur Dhillon launches
campaign for California assembly elections
Punjabi-American social worker promises equality for all
WSN Bureau
 SAN FRANCISCO:
After her unopposed selection in the primaries, leading Sikh lawyer
and a known name in the Punjabi-American community, Harmeet Kaur
Dhillon has started her election campaign for the 13th district of
the California State Assembly on a Republican Party ticket.
Elections to the
assembly are scheduled in November and she faces opposition from
Tope Amiano of the Democratic Party.
Harmeet Kaur
Dhillon is an ardent supporter of Senator John McCain. This
constituency includes almost half of
San Francisco
city which has 2, 60,000 voters. In this area the registered
democratic voters is 5.7 percent, those of the Republican Party is 9
percent and unattached voters account for 28 percent of the votes.
Harmeet Kaur is
confident of winning over the Punjabi-American and the Asian
community to her side, as her opponent is considered to be a strong
leftist. It is estimated that one-third of the Asian population
would support Harmeet Kaur. She has recently won the election to the
St Francisco Republican Central Committee. She claims that she has
the support of the Green Party too as she has been an activist in
the area of civil liberties, religious freedoms, hate crime, human
rights and domestic violence.
In the past she
has worked relentlessly to obtain “Sanctuary Status” for
San Francisco.
It is significant that she is the first Sikh American woman to
contest the election. Spelling out her priorities Ms. Dhillon has
said that she would work for development in elementary and secondary
school education, control over illegal immigration and equal rights
to all irrespective of religion and ethnicity.
It is pertinent
to mention that Harmeet Kaur hails from Chandigarh and has had her
education in North Carolina. She has been the editor of The
Dartmouth Review and has written articles and features for The New
York Times and The Wall Street Journal, The New Republican,
Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. She is also the trustee
of the Sikh Foundation and legal advisor for many Sikh
organizations.
3 September 2008
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