{"id":870,"date":"2005-01-03T00:55:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T05:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=870"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:29","slug":"who_wouldnt_wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/03\/who_wouldnt_wan\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wouldn’t want to lick that?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember my previous posts (here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a>) on the drive to get the first (and up until recently, the only) Indian American Congressman onto a stamp? Well our boy has met with some resistance and the IACFPA reports<\/a> that the stamp proposal has been defeated:<\/p>\n\n

\nThe U.S. Citizens\u00c2\u2019 Stamp Advisory Committee was recently reported to have rejected the proposal to issue a stamp commemorating Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian to be elected to Congress in 1956. But Indian Americans and various legislative bodies have not given up<\/b> the effort to garner recognition for the late Congressman.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Okay so what’s the next step? How to recover from this devastating news? What’s plan B?<\/p>\n\n

\nOn Nov. 17, Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA) was joined by some 50 Democratic and Republican legislators from California, introducing H.R. 5374<\/a>, to designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 30777 Rancho California Road in Temecula, California, as the \u00c2\u2018Dalip Singh Saund Post Office Building<\/b>.\u00c2\u2019\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I am not confident though. Our boy seems to be getting no love:<\/p>\n\n

\n\u00c2\u201cBut we are not giving up,\u00c2\u201d said AFPIO President Ramesh Gupta in a press release. On Jan. 22, 2005 at the \u00c2\u2018India Night\u00c2\u2019 function in Dallas, Gupta said, the AFPIO plans to restart the petition drive. And in March, a Saund souvenir will be launched at an event where President George Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are being invited. The release did not say whether the invitations were accepted. <\/b>\n
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\nIn July, Rep. Wilson, introduced a bill to put up Saund\u00c2\u2019s portrait in the Capitol rotunda. The fate of this bill and of the one for renaming a postal office in California is yet to be decided<\/b>.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Imagine putting this much effort behind some issue actually relevant to South Asian Americans. Hmmm, I wonder if Jindal will get a stamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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