Thread by @SurfCityWriter

Zoom w/ David Inoue .@JACL_National on H.R. 1931 Japanese American Confinement Education Act, which permanently reauthorizes the Japanese American Confinement Sites preservation program.

Missing from the #California co-sponsor list?
Michelle Steel.

congress.gov/bill/117th-con…

There is an endangered #NationalTreasure .@WintersburgHB in Michelle Steel's district representing this #AAPI history.

As an OC supervisor & now as congressional rep, Steel has not acknowledged it or taken any action to save it. Crickets.

savingplaces.org/places/histori…

I will thank Young Kim for being the *only* GOP congressional rep from #California who signed on as a co-sponsor for H.R. 1931.

If you post social media about anti-AAPI hate, but don't sponsor efforts to save #AAPI history, we see you.

Of the 22 #California congressional reps who co-sponsor H.R. 1931, 21 are Democrats, 1 is GOP (Kim).
Of course OC's .@RepKatiePorter is a co-sponsor. ❤️

This bill funds education on civil liberties history of WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans.
congress.gov/bill/117th-con…

Adding to this, one of the emails sent protesting an appointment by Michelle Steel, then on OC board of supervisors, by former senior historian of Japanese American National Museum & CSUF professor emeritus.

Appointee's name redacted to protect me from more harassment.

Others, like @LTHSnews also protested this appointment. It was a deliberate placement of someone who orchestrated anti-Asian hate targeting myself and @WintersburgHB, multiple platforms, hate blogs, fake profiles.

That Steel did not co-sponsor H.R. 1931 is not a surprise.