Why endorse a party? Why not endorse a candidate?
A political party thinks much longer term than an individual politician. Once a party has ascertained that our efforts will likely impact the next presidential election, it will nudge everyone in the party to do something for AsAms, including the White House, congressional delegates, and state, county and city parties. For example: appointing AsAms to policy-making positions, giving their blessing to local AsAm candidates to avoid a primary, establishing blue ribbon commissions or holding Congressional hearings on why the administrator/ (faculty + professional) ratio for AsAms is so low, … etc. These are easy things to do. In politics, so long as an initiative does not require money; does not create negative publicity; does not specifically come out of the hide of a powerful interest group, it is a “soft task.” The only reason our political establishment has not done such things for us is our political naivette and our lack of internal cohesiveness. Party pols care about winning the
