NEWS
February 18, 2001 | From Associated Press
This city, as diverse as any in the world, has had a black mayor and two Jewish mayors. Its City Council includes natives of Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. Yet no Asian American has ever served as mayor, on the City Council or in any citywide office--a "shocking" situation, one candidate says, considering that nearly 1 in 10 New Yorkers is of Asian descent.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 1, 1999 | CHRIS CEBALLOS, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
In a time when national minority organizations are pushing for better representation on network television, a handful of Orange County Asian Pacific Americans have been training to establish a foothold in a different arena: local politics. While the number of Asian Pacific Americans has more than tripled in Orange County since the '80s, the group is conspicuously absent from local leadership positions.
NEWS
February 18, 1998 | JIM MANN
The Republicans' report on President Clinton's "China connection" has been completed. It is a remarkably incomplete and distorted document, one that makes the most of any possible links to China while failing to pursue similar questions about Taiwan. For more than a year now, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has been examining the fund-raising for Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 16, 1998 | K. CONNIE KANG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Congressional hearings have produced enough evidence of illegal fund-raising in the 1996 presidential campaign to warrant criminal indictments by the Justice Department, Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) said Thursday. "The ball is in their court," said Thompson, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which is probing the campaign abuses. "I don't want to prejudge them, but [Atty. Gen.
NEWS
November 14, 1997 | BOB WOODWARD, THE WASHINGTON POST
The FBI has acknowledged overlooking key intelligence information gathered as far back as 1991 that investigators believe shows further Chinese government efforts to buy political influence in the United States, senior U.S. government sources said Thursday. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno learned of the new evidence on the night of Nov. 5. A senior Justice Department official said Reno was "livid" at the FBI foul-up and two days later apologized to Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.
NEWS
October 9, 1997 | MARC LACEY and ALAN C. MILLER, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
The House opened its own campaign finance hearings Wednesday by announcing that two former Democratic fund-raisers are prepared to testify that President Clinton's 1992 campaign had provided an endorsement to a candidate for political office in Asia in exchange for a $50,000 contribution.