Indian-American Coalitions Raises Millions For Mitt Romney
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 13, 2012, 5:57 PM
Dr Sampat Shivangi from Mississippi helped Governor Romney raise $1.7 million in July. (South Asian Times)
The “Indian-American Coalition” of prominent Indian-Americans have raised from 15-20 million dollars for the Romney campaign.
The Link Newspaper reported, via Free Republic:
Away from the public glare, prominent Indian-Americans supporting Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney are believed to have raised between USD 15-20 million for his presidential campaign. While Romney campaign has not released any fundraising statistics from ethnic coalitions nor has it made public the list of its bundlers or exclusive Stars and Stripes members, the list of big donors include over 200 prominent Indian Americans.
The ‘Indian-American Coalition’ was established in November 2011 by the Romney Campaign National Finance Committee Chairman Spencer Zwick to recognise not only the individual donor, but also the larger community under a group identity. There have been other ethnic coalitions in the Romney campaign’s Finance Committee such as Jewish American coalition, Women’s coalition, Veteran’s Coalition, etc.
By conservative estimates Indian-Americans supporters of Romney believed to have collectively helped raise between USD 15-20 million for his campaign, according to those familiar with the fundraising efforts. “An Indian American coalition in a Presidential Campaign’s National Finance Committee is new and historic. Such a decision of the Romney Campaign has produced the desired results,” Indian American supporters of 65-year-old former governor of Massachusetts say.
Some of the prominent Indian-American bundlers/Star and Stripes members include Sampat Shivangi from Mississippi, Sudhakar Shenoy and Shreedhar Pottarazu from Virginia, Zach Zachariah, Akshay Desai and R Vijaynagar from Florida, Bharat Barai from Indiana, Rupesh Sreevastava and Raj Vatticutti from Michigan. “Everyone has contributed funds, bundled money or held an event that has raised a minimum USD one million,” Sue Ghosh Stricklett, Stars & Stripes Member, Romney Finance Committee, told PTI during a conference call with top Indian-American donors.
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Mikey commented:
Indians will always take the side the Blacks aren’t on. It’s a cultural thing.
For years Blacks in South Africa pleaded with the Indians to vote with them against the colonial Whites but every time, to a person, the Indians always voted with the white upper classes.
Exception is the Muslim Indians & Pakis. They will vote for 0bama, convinced he is Muslim. Religion trumps caste apparently.
MrGoodWench commented:
Looking at the current state of our country,
successful patriotic educated people are betting on the winning horse ….
bg commented:
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that’s wonderful!!
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Opaobie commented:
Biden won’t be happy. I’ll bet he never visits another 7-11.
Patty commented:
Indian American group backs Romney as presidential candidate
Observing that Mitt Romney shares the vision of Indian American community for the US, a political action committee of the community has endorsed Republican’s nomination for this year’s Presidential polls.
“Without question, Governor Romney shares the Republican Indian Committee’s vision for America for all of our citizens. The Indian-American community supports the highest ideals of advanced education, entrepreneurial risk taking, strong work ethics, and family values,” said Dilip Palith, national president of Republican Indian Committee (RIC).
Soon after Romney officially bagged party’s presidential nomination at convention in Tampa, RIC endorsed Romney noting that he represents the “highest” of American ideals and “thoroughly understands” that private sector.
“Today, Indian Americans represent small business owners, corporate executives, tech CEOs, bankers, and venture capitalists as well as physicians, lawyers, scientists, engineers, and professors,” RIC said.
“We know that our community must help preserve and restore the American Dream for the next generation. We do not want to leave our children burdened with trillions of dollars of debt,” RIC added.
Meanwhile, RIC national chairman Sam Malhotra said Romney’s selection of Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate is a signal that he is serious about addressing the long-term US debt and deficit issues.
“Congressman Ryan has put forth and will continue to advance ideas so that we can have a meaningful conversation about what we as a nation can afford, given present economic realities,” Malhotra said.
Observing that the committee believes in the fiscal conservatism that Romney represents, RIS said it support his past record of good government in the state of Massachusetts, where he “rescued” his constituents from uncontrolled spending and budget deficits.
http://post.jagran.com/indians-back-romney-as-prez-nominee-1346216976
Use Common Sense; Vote GOP commented:
Let’s see here. Indians, from the sub-continent, the NON-Muslim kind, are hard-working, fully understanding the American system.
Let’s have more of them as immigrants.
As to the Muslim kind, let’s have NONE of them. No matter where in the world Muslims are found, so too is trouble found.
Islam, the ideology that perverts.
Patty commented:
TEST OF FIRE. POWERFUL AND EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hd
donh commented:
Romney is only getting the India immigrant vote because of his stock holdings in Dunkin Doughnuts…. where according to Biden all the employees have a slight indian accent….> http://youtu.be/sM19YOqs7hU
a former dem commented:
Most indians immigrants I’ve met are very hard working strong work ethic, and strongly believe in the American system, not the socialist redistribution nonsense. India used to be a socialist country, until they realized they were losing the brightest people immigrating here to the US, so in the 90s, India started becoming more free enterprise, more entrepreneur friendly.
No surprise indian americans are supporting Romney.
bg commented:
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Romney will hopefully gain more more & more Black support as well..
OT..
Landowner stands ground against government ‘shake-down’
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bg commented:
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donh #8 October 13, 2012 at 7:07 pm
thanks!!
that was the first thought that ran through my
mind (and probably everyone else’s as well)..
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adele shivdasani commented:
Some of these commenters are real asinine. I am Indian. Most Asians tend to be democrats.. which is strange, since we tend to be a lot more conservative when it comes to fiscal issues and social ones. India has never been socialist. It’s a democracy with a parliamentary system. Indians in this country are very successful because of their belief in a good education for their kids. In India most of us have been to Jesuit institutions right through high school, which culturally makes us a little right of center. I am amazed they are raising money for Romney, since they normally go with Obama and the dems. But these are business men and doctors/engineers, who believe that Obama is changing this country .. not in a good way. By the way, most of us don’t own Dunkin Donuts. We don’t hate blacks, although we have issues with affirmative action.. since we tend to be on the loosing end of quotas in this country. We send our kids to private school and would like all kids to have a voucher..
Opaobie commented:
See #4, too.
magnolia commented:
I am thrilled to see the CEO of the company I work for named on this list! I am so proud of him. He is a hardworking patriotic American and I was so hopeful he was among the donors.
bg commented:
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adele shivdasani #13 October 13, 2012 at 7:53 pm
what the hell are you talking about??
one poster said something that even i may
take offensive, aside from yours that is..
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Redwine commented:
I’m happy to see the Indian support for Romney. Indians form a rather large community in Bellevue and Redmond, WA (lots of Microsoft people). Some are active in conservative groups. GOP candidates do pretty well out here. I’m sure they helped vote in the Republican mayor of Bellevue.
a former dem commented:
“India has never been socialist. ”
Actually India was socialist a few decades back, yes its a parliamentary democracy, based on the British system, however it was socialist until the 80s or so, most of the Indian immigrants I worked with in the past are professionals who came from “IIT”, which I understand is the top school in India, they came here in the 80′s because India was more a socialist country, during the cold war, US did not consider India an ally, as India somewhat was allied with the USSR.
However India is considered a good ally of the US now.
As for the comment being democrats, yes I would agree with that, although the values of most of the indian americans are more center right, but as the demonrat party has veered very far left now, it makes sense indian americans are backing romney. So maybe they supported Barry last time, its good to see people off all backgrounds who are independent minded voting for Romney this time.
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