Chinese-Americans Are Pushing San Francisco Toward the Political Center


在旧金山，华裔美国人长期以来一直是左翼的可靠投票群体，但许多华裔已开始因为反亚裔犯罪和教育政策等问题反对左翼。


旧金山参事会候选人Marjan Philhour最近在“停止仇恨亚裔”(Stop Asian Hate)组织者Forrest Liu的陪同下，拜访了76岁的May Yu。

Phil Wong过去一直坚定支持这座自由城市的在职官员。但在2022年，他投票支持罢免三名左翼学校董事会成员和一名进步派的地区检察官，并计划在11月将选票投给一名现任市长的挑战者，这位挑战者对打击犯罪持强硬立场。 6park.com
Phil Wong used to reliably back incumbents in this liberal city. But in 2022, he voted to recall three left-wing school board members and a progressive district attorney, and in November he plans to cast his ballot for a tough-on-crime challenger to the current mayor. 6park.com
 
“我深深地爱着这座城市，爱着它之前的样子。”这位46岁的华裔移民之子说。“我想再看看它还能变成什么样。” 6park.com
“I have a deep love for this city, what it was,” said the 46-year-old son of a Chinese immigrant. “I want to see what it can be again.” 6park.com
   
华裔美国人长期以来一直是左翼的可靠投票群体，他们是近期在旧金山强烈反对进步派政策的重要推动者，旧金山进步派政策获得的支持不断上升，并得到了科技行业资金的支持。 6park.com
Long a reliable voting bloc for the left, Chinese-Americans have been important drivers of a recent backlash against progressive policies in San Francisco, which has grown in support and been backed by tech industry money. 6park.com
  
华裔社会成员占这座城市81万人口的五分之一，在登记选民中所占比例稍微低一些，他们表示，反亚裔暴力事件、 他们认为重公平、轻成绩的学校政策以及街头无家可归者的现象尤其令他们感到愤怒。许多人还感到不安的是，长期以来，旧金山的财产犯罪率一直高于其他大多数大城市，尽管今年有所下降。 6park.com
Members of the Chinese community, who make up one-fifth of this city of 810,000 and a slightly smaller percentage of registered voters, say they have been particularly incensed by incidents of anti-Asian violence, school policies they believe have emphasized equity over merit, and street homelessness. Many are also upset that property crime has long been higher in San Francisco than most other major cities, though it has dropped this year. 6park.com
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华裔美国人是上个月通过的强制公共福利受益人接受药物筛查和扩大警察权力的选票议案，以及2022年罢免三名校董和地区检察官Chesa Boudin的最有力支持者之一。根据研究公司Data Second对公开数据的一项分析，他们对这些行动的支持率比旧金山整体投票人口高出10至30个百分点。该公司由旧金山参事委员会(San Francisco Board of Supervisors)候选人Marjan Philhour的丈夫经营，该委员会政纲温和。 6park.com
Chinese-Americans were among the most emphatic backers of ballot measures passed last month mandating drug screening for public welfare recipients and expanding police powers, as well as the 2022 recall of the three school board members and the district attorney, Chesa Boudin. Their margin of support for those efforts was 10 to 30 percentage points higher than the overall San Francisco voting population, according to an analysis of publicly available data by research firm Data Second. The firm is run by the husband of Marjan Philhour, a candidate for San Francisco Board of Supervisors running on a moderate platform.

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旧金山是美国最古老的华裔聚居地，他们占该市人口的五分之一左右。

现在，现任市长London Breed及其三位最主要挑战者正在大力争取华裔美国人群体在11月选举中的支持。政治分析人士称，这将是旧金山几十年来最激烈的市长竞选之一，可能会将旧金山进一步推向政治聚光灯下。 6park.com
Now, the Chinese-American community is being heavily courted by incumbent Mayor London Breed and her three most-prominent challengers in November’s election, which political analysts say will be one of the toughest mayoral races here in decades and could push the city further to the center. 6park.com
  
旧金山州立大学(San Francisco State University)政治学副教授Jason McDaniel说：“这是一个可以决定选举结果的群体。” 6park.com
“It is a community that can determine the outcome of elections,” said Jason McDaniel, associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University. 6park.com
   
在过去，华裔美国人经常投票给自己社区的代表，华裔社区的政治活动人士与左翼政治运动关系密切。在唐人街尤其如此，这里是华人移民在美国最古老的聚居地，可以追溯至19世纪50年代。 6park.com
In the past, Chinese-Americans often voted for representatives from their own community, in which political activists had close ties to left-wing political movements. That was particularly true in Chinatown, the oldest enclave of Chinese immigrants in the U.S., dating to the 1850s. 6park.com
  
然而，政治分析人士和社区领袖称，随着华裔居民社会经济地位的攀升，他们越来越多地搬到旧金山西部、更郊区的一些社区，并开始出于种族代表性以外的原因投票。 6park.com
As Chinese residents climbed the socioeconomic ladder, however, they increasingly moved to the city’s western, more suburban neighborhoods and began voting for reasons other than ethnic representation, political analysts and community leaders said. 6park.com
   
在新冠疫情期间，许多华裔美国人选民对政治体制越发感到愤怒，当时学校长期关闭、一所精英高中取消择优录取的做法，激怒了以教育为重的家庭。 6park.com
Many Chinese-American voters grew angry at the political establishment during the pandemic, when prolonged school closures and a move away from merit-based admissions at one elite high school incensed families who put an emphasis on education.



据旧金山警方称，反亚裔仇恨犯罪也大幅上升，从2020年的10起上升至2021年的60起。 6park.com
Anti-Asian hate crimes also rose substantially, to 60 reported in 2021 from 10 in 2020, according to San Francisco police. 6park.com
   
针对老年人的袭击尤其激怒了华裔美国居民。在罢免Boudin的运动中，矛盾激化时刻之一是2021年一名84岁的泰国男子遭到致命袭击，许多亚裔美国人认为该地区检察官淡化了这一事件。在接受《纽约时报》(New York Times)采访时，Boudin将嫌疑人的行为称为“发脾气”。这名19岁的嫌疑人被控谋杀，在拒不认罪后被羁押候审。 6park.com
Attacks on the elderly, in particular, have infuriated Chinese-American residents. One of the galvanizing moments in the movement to oust Boudin was a fatal assault on an 84-year-old Thai man in 2021 that many Asian-Americans felt the district attorney played down. In an interview with the New York Times, Boudin had referred to the suspect’s actions as a “temper tantrum.” The 19-year-old suspect was charged with murder and is in custody awaiting trial after pleading not guilty. 6park.com
   
前旧金山警察局副局长Garret Tom说：“我认为那是压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草。” 6park.com
“I think that was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Garret Tom, a former San Francisco deputy police chief. 6park.com
   
Boudin说，在他担任地区检察官期间，他积极追究仇恨犯罪指控并扩大了对亚裔美国人社区的受害者服务。他之前说自己的“发脾气”言论是被断章取义了，并称这次袭击是“令人发指的罪行”。 6park.com
Boudin said while he was district attorney, he aggressively pursued hate-crime charges and expanded victim services for the Asian-American community. He previously said his “temper tantrum” comment was taken out of context and called the attack a “heinous crime.”


旧金山地区检察官Chesa Boudin在2022年的罢免选举中落选。

年轻的华裔活动人士组成了社区安全巡逻队，并加入了针对Boudin和左翼校董的罢免运动，其中包括一名对亚裔发表了争议性言论的校董。现在，一些人正试图借助这些活动的成功，在政治上变得更加活跃。 6park.com
Young Chinese-American activists formed community safety patrols and joined the recall campaigns against both Boudin and left-leaning school board members, including one who made controversial remarks about Asian people. Now some are trying to leverage the success of those campaigns to become more politically active. 6park.com
   
县检察官Nancy Tung最近入选当地民主党管理委员会，属于倾向温和派的“旧金山民主党变革”(SF Democrats for Change)候选人联盟。该联盟中的候选人有三分之一是华裔美国人。 6park.com
Nancy Tung, a county prosecutor, was recently elected to the governing board of the local Democratic Party as part of a moderate-leaning slate of candidates called “SF Democrats for Change.” A third of those who ran on the slate were Chinese-American. 6park.com
  
“实际上，人们想要的是能发挥作用的政府、能有效运转的城市。少一些意识形态上的夸夸其谈、多一些具体的行动，”Tung说。 6park.com
“Really, what people wanted was government that works and a city that works. Less ideological chest-thumping and more concrete action,” Tung said. 6park.com
   
Tung说，在这个每三名选民中就有两名登记为民主党人的城市，民主党县中央委员会(Democratic County Central Committee)中温和派的增多意味着他们可以在支持候选人参加当地竞选方面发挥巨大的影响力。 6park.com
In a city where nearly two in three voters is a registered Democrat, Tung said, more moderates on the city’s Democratic County Central Committee means they can wield immense power in their role endorsing candidates for local races. 6park.com
  
Jade Tu是罢免Boudin的一名领衔人物和安全巡逻员，目前担任温和派市长候选人、前临时市长和参事Mark Farrell的竞选经理。 6park.com
Jade Tu, a Boudin recall leader and safety-patrol member, is working as campaign manager for moderate mayoral candidate Mark Farrell, a former interim mayor and supervisor in the city. 6park.com
   
“我给London Breed投过票，我喜欢她的故事，但某些时候，我不得不看看她的城市的状况，”Tu说。“这个城市有很多问题。” 6park.com
“I voted for London Breed, I loved her story, but at some point I have to take a look at the state of her city,” Tu said. “There is a lot wrong with this city.”


旧金山市长候选人包括(左上顺时针)现任市长London Breed、Daniel Lurie、监事会主席Aaron Peskin以及Mark Farrell和其竞选经理Jade Tu。

Breed接受采访时说，她让更多低收入华裔美国人有了住房，减少了反亚裔犯罪。据警方统计，2023年旧金山共发生14起反亚裔仇恨犯罪案件。 6park.com
Breed said in an interview she has put more low-income Chinese-Americans in homes and reduced anti-Asian crime. In 2023, there were 14 reported anti-Asian hate crimes in San Francisco, according to the police. 6park.com
   
最近，这位旧金山市长率领贸易代表团访华，她在访华期间与中国官员宣布，旧金山动物园明年将接收一对大熊猫。 6park.com
The mayor recently led a trade delegation to China, where she and Chinese officials announced that the San Francisco Zoo would receive a pair of giant pandas next year. 6park.com
   
争取华裔选民的努力在4月早些时候就很明显了，当时另外两位市长候选人——温和派慈善家Daniel Lurie和进步派监事委员会主席Aaron Peskin逛了每月一次的唐人街夜市，Farrell也在那里举行了集会。 6park.com
The fight for Chinese-American voters was apparent earlier in April when two other mayoral candidates—moderate philanthropist Daniel Lurie and progressive Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin—made the rounds at a monthly night market in Chinatown, and Farrell held a rally there. 6park.com
  
长期以来，Peskin一直是唐人街社区的代表人物，Peskin留着花白胡子，当地说广东话的华裔居民亲切地称他为“大胡子”。 6park.com
A longtime representative of the Chinatown neighborhood, Peskin is known affectionately in Cantonese as “the bearded man” for his salt-and-pepper facial hair. 6park.com
  
支持Lurie和Peskin的律师Allan Low说，在唐人街社区的选民中，老年人和低收入租房者的比例较高，唐人街选民的利益往往与城西较富裕地区的华裔业主不同。 6park.com
Allan Low, an attorney supporting both Lurie and Peskin, said voters in Chinatown, where the share of seniors and low-income renters is higher, often have different interests than Chinese-American homeowners on the city’s more-affluent west side. 6park.com
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“他们并非铁板一块，”Low说。 6park.com
“They are not a monolith,” said Low. 6park.com
   
许多华裔选民似乎仍未决定是否去投票，其中包括像Sabrina Chiang这样的老年居民，她今年82岁，只会说广东话。最近的一个早晨，Chiang站在亚裔美国人喜爱的超市22nd & Irving Market外说，她害怕晚上出门，关于选举她只确定一件事：“我希望看到一座安全的城市。” 6park.com
Many Chinese-American voters still appear to be undecided in the race, including elderly residents like Sabrina Chiang, an 82-year-old who speaks only Cantonese. Standing on a recent morning outside the 22nd & Irving Market, a popular shopping destination for Asian-Americans, Chiang said she is afraid to walk outside at night and is only sure of one thing in the election: “I want to see a safe city.”


本月早些时候，82岁的Sabrina Chiang和孙子一起买东西。她尚未决定在旧金山市长竞选中投票给谁。