The Barack Obama Campaign certainly knows how to throw down a great party with this week’s celebrity-fest in San Francisco, starting with the mistress of ceremonies, Kelly Hu (X-Men 2, Undoing), pulling out her political claws for the Obama party at Roe Prive. Over 300 young voters attended the ritzy party in the upper mezzanine bar, and Hu addressed the crowd — along with San Francisco Supervisor hopeful, David Chiu, and Board of Education member Jane Park — with an impassioned, albeit poorly rehearsed, script on the reasons why the Asian American community truly has the swing vote in California this year.
Hu, who, suprisingly enough, stands at a diminutive 5′ 5″, recounted to me personally her recollections of growing half-Asian and half-White in Hawaii — much like Barack’s half-sister, Maya — and attending their shared alma mater, Kamehameha High School.
“This is the first time, ever, that I’ve been involved in a political campaign,” Hu swore to me as I stood in for KTVU-Fox Channel 2’s newscaster Renee Kemp. “But I feel so strongly that the the Asian American vote has been lying dormant for so long. It’s simply amazing when you consider that we have come so far as a community of immigrants, but when you consider that voting is so crucial to shaping the future of where we go next, I am just amazed to see that so many people still do not step up and vote for their future.
“Come on, people … take a stand!” (more…)
