Harmeet Dhillon Launches November Assembly Campaign

INDIA-WEST
July 18, 2008
by Staff Reporter

Nearly 100 supporters of Harmeet K. Dhillon’s campaign for California
 state Assembly gathered July 14 at San Francisco’s Fior d’Italia restaurant, to launch her general election
 campaign.



Dhillon, the Republican nominee who advanced unopposed in the June 3 primary, hopes to represent the eastern half of San Francisco. She faces Democrat San Francisco
 Supervisor Tom Ammiano November 4.
The seat was vacated by termed out Democrat Mark Leno, who is running against Sri Lankan American Republican Sashi Sabriratnam McEntee for the 3rd district state Senate seat, representing half of San Francisco, most of Marin County and parts of Sonoma County.

Dhillon won election June 3 to the San Francisco Republican Central Committee, placing fourth in a field of 20 candidates to fill 12 seats. She holds a California Republican Party post as one of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 12 appointed delegates.

San Francisco Planning Commissioner and GOP activist Dr. Michael Antonini introduced Dhillon, mentioning her support of conservative issues dating to her service as editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review.
Dhillon detailed her platform including balancing the state budget, improving educational choices for elementary and secondary school students and working for equal opportunity for all.

She pledged that, if elected, unlike Ammiano, whom she termed a career politician, she would serve no more than two terms before returning to the private sector. Dhillon noted that she is the first Sikh American woman to ever run for the California legislature and the only Indian American candidate running statewide in legislative races for 2008.
The program concluded with Dhillon introducing three other Republican women running for state and national offices in San Francisco: Conchita Applegate, a Filipina American running for the state Assembly in District 12; McEntee; and Dana Walsh, who is challenging Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi for the 8th Congressional District seat.
 

See the Dhillon '08 Kickoff Party Photos