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[SCPR] Asian-Americans win majority on O.C. Board of Supervisors

February 3, 2015
Candidates Young Kim, fifth from left, and Michelle Park Steel, second from right, celebrate after their general election victories Tuesday night. (Park Sang-hyuk/The Korea Times)

Candidates Young Kim, fifth from left, and Michelle Park Steel, second from right, celebrate after their general election victories Tuesday night. (Park Sang-hyuk/The Korea Times)

[SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO]

For the first time, Asian-Americans will have majority representation on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, signaling a shift in Southern California politics.

Last week, Republican candidate Andrew Do, a Vietnamese-American attorney and former Garden Grove city council member was elected to the O.C. board by just 43 votes, narrowly beating a well-known Orange County Democrat, Lou Correa.

Do, a native of Vietnam, fills the seat vacated when Janet Nguyen was elected to the state Senate in November.

Also in November, Michelle Steel, a native of South Korea, and Lisa Bartlett, a U.S.-born Japanese-American, were elected to the board.

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