Would an American win a major political office in China? Best and brightest -- we take them. _____ Ed Lee wins San Francisco mayor's race Ed Lee won San Francisco's mayoral race on Wednesday, becoming the first elected mayor of Chinese descent in a city steeped in Chinese American history. Lee, who has been San Francisco's acting mayor since January, received 61.2 percent of votes after several rounds of votes from Tuesday's ranked-choice election system had been tallied, according to San Francisco's department of elections. Lee was appointed mayor after former Mayor Gavin Newsom won election last November as California's lieutenant governor. Lee was San Francisco's city administrator at the time of his appointment and had the support of prominent city political figures in the mayor's race, which he officially entered in August. Lee, who faced off against 15 other candidates in the mayor's race, counted an agreement with the city's unions on a pension reform measure as the signature achievement of his 10 months in office and voters endorsed it on Tuesday over a competing measure. link
Everyone is equal here. Yep, American kicks ass. everyone except those damn indians... trying to steal all our land.
Yeah, it's not like the guy stepped off the boat and became Mayor. He's an American. If an American went to China, they'd still be American, not Chinese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China What are you guys talking about? It's not like there is no elections in China ever. I know that anything above village level doesn't mean a whole lot, but there are still elections. It's not like everyone gets completely equal chances in US either.
Only 61% of the votes? In China they get 100% of the votes. So I guess Lee is 39% less of a leader for being born in the US.
I'm just pointing out that there are elections in China, unlike what the previous poster believed. Not debating democracy here.
Not sure if his campaign video did the rounds here, but it's fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbdd_Fasz0k EDIT : I'm obviously clueless when it comes to embedding video, so direct link above.
Actually we sort of stole the Indians land......and we want it back !!!! That's right, I am American Indian......baby ! DD
They buy it, fair and square. Then they change their name to Patel and open hotels. Matt Bullard told me so.
Here ya go bro ! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fbdd_Fasz0k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> DD
I bet chuck hayes can get elected as commissar to the ministry of commerce, so yeah this lee guy doesn't impress me much.
