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Korean women’s trio imminent to enter the US Congress
Reporter Kim Kyung-hee [email protected]
Check-in: 2020-11-11 18:20:54Review: 2020-11-11 18:22:35Published: 2020-11-11 18:23:43 (p. 10)
Korean-American Michelle Park Steele (left) and Marylin Strickland (center), elected to the United States House of Representatives. Candidate Young-Kim, who is currently the most promising candidate to be elected. Twitter
South Korean woman Michelle Park Steele (Korean name Park Eun-ju, 65) was elected as the United States Republican candidate.
Candidate Steele won the 10th (local time) in California’s 48th Congressional District, defeating active Democrats, Representative Harley Luda. Following the election of candidate Marylin Strickland (Democrat / Washington State), formerly known by the Korean name ‘Unja’, and the reelection of Congressman Andy Kim (Democrat / New Jersey), Candidate Steele managed to enter the US Congress United States. Increased to people.
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Additionally, Republican candidate Kim Young-ok (Korean name Kim Young-ok, 57) ranks first in California’s 39th constituency. If the election is confirmed here, four Korean congressmen will be born at the same time.
According to the New York Times (NYT) tally, Candidate Steel registered 50.8% of the vote, beating Congressman Luda by 1.8%. The difference between the two candidates was 7300 and Steele won the game after a close match.
“I had a tough fight and I won a lot,” Steele said on Twitter. “I will be more humble with the support of the voters. It is an honor to be able to serve in Congress for our community. Now we are going to work.”
This election took place on the 3rd, but the results were released one week after the election due to the delay in the counting of votes by mail.
Born in Seoul, Candidate Steele moved to the United States with his family in 1975, graduated from Pepperdine University, earned an MBA from the University of Southern California (USC), and lived like a housewife. running house. It was the 1992 riots in Los Angeles (LA) that changed his life. Amid the black-and-white conflict, the lives of Koreans collapsed, and when the traditional media inevitably sold a crowd with guns to protect the Korean city, he decided he was desperate to develop the political capacity of the Korean community. -American. .
Later, she entered politics with the help of her husband, Shawn Steele, who served as chairman of the California Republican Party. He participated in the Candidate Camp for Richard Riodan, who ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1993, and after Riodan’s candidate was elected, he served as Chief of the City of Los Angeles Fire Department and President of Families Los Angeles County Children’s. Candidate Steele is known as the ‘queen of elections’ in Korean society. Along with this election to the House of Representatives, it is a fifth consecutive victory.
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