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Kalvoda and several friends from WAVE then formed Asian Americans Rising to mobilize the Asian American vote for Democrats. She recounted the tale of her transformation at an Oct. 9 panel discussion in Irvine sponsored by the new group. More than 40 people showed up to hear from Porter, Rep. Judy Chu of East Los Angeles County, and experts representing every Asian nationality present in the district.
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Porter’s support for reinstating the deduction is a key part of her stump spiel a way of showing that she, unlike Walters, would put her district before her party. It’s also part of what won her the backing of both the California and National Associations of Realtors, trade groups to get Porter elected.
More controversially, it’s given Porter grounds to buck the California Democratic Party on Proposition 6, a GOP sponsored referendum repealing a 12 cent a gallon gas tax passed by the Democratic legislature and governor. Proponents of the tax, chief among them the state’s building trades unions, consider it a key step toward modernizing the state’s decaying roads and bridges canada goose deals.