Sherrie Matula picked up a couple of nice endorsements recently. One is from the Houston chapter of the 80-20 Initiative, which is called the Houston 80-20 Asian-American PAC. I've got a copy of their endorsement letter here (PDF). The 80-20 is a nonpartisan organization "dedicated to work for equality and justice for all Asian Americans." The name refers to what proportion of votes is the most effective to gain political clout, and it takes a 2/3 majority of the participants to get their endorsement, so this is a nice thing to have.

Also, as noted by Bay Area Houston, Matula was endorsed by the Texas State Teachers Association. She's a longtime TSTA member, so this is not surprising. It's still cool.

Matula's a great candidate running in a district that hasn't had much Democratic presence. HD129 is entirely within CD22, so there will be a lot of attention focused there. Here's my interview with her (MP3 file), and here's her ActBlue page if you like what you see and hear. Go Sherrie!