BERKELEY LAKE, Ga.—The Republican National Committee (RNC) opened a new Asian Pacific American Community Center (APACC) in Berkeley Lake, Georgia, on Friday, Sept. 17. This is the RNC’s first APACC in Georgia, and the third such office in the whole country. Some of the speakers included David Shafer, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, as well as Sunny Park, a prominent figure in the local Asian community and a philanthropist on the national scene. Tommy Hicks, Jr., the co-chairman of the RNC also flew in from Texas to speak at the event. The geographic location of this APACC is apparently quite strategic, nestled in a shopping center in the northeastern Atlanta suburbs. Shafer said that before becoming chairman of the Republican Party in Georgia he had served as a state senator for 18 years representing this general area. “It is the most richly diverse senate district in Georgia,” said …
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