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Fiona Ma (simplified Chinese: 马世云; traditional Chinese: 馬世雲; pinyin: Mǎ Shìyún) (born March 4, 1967) is the California State Assembly Majority Whip and a San Francisco politician, and a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
[edit] Personal lifeMa was born in New York to an immigrant engineer father and high school teacher mother.[1] She received a bachelor's degree in accounting at Rochester Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in taxation from Golden Gate University, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. Ma is a CPA.[1] [edit] Political careerMa was on the staff of former state Senate President John Burton as a part-time district representative. [edit] San Francisco Board of SupervisorsShe was later elected to the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors from 2002 to 2006 representing District 4, the Sunset District. While serving on that board, her major legislative push was to shut down massage parlors who illegally trafficked persons into the country and used them to run illegal prostitution rings.[2] [edit] 12th District AssemblywomanMa won the Democratic nomination to represent California's 12th Assembly District against fellow Democrat Janet Reilly in the state primary election of June 6, 2006. The campaign was one of the most expensive legislative primary races in the state of California.[3] On November 7, 2006 Ma received 70 percent of the votes and defeated her two opponents for California Assembly Republican Howard Epstein and Green Barry Hermanson. She replaced Leland Yee as 12th District Assemblywoman.[4] Ma was appointed Assembly Majority Whip by the speaker of the Assembly, Fabian Núñez. As Assemblywoman, Ma authored legislation on banning toxic chemicals in products for babies and small children, the creation of a state-wide high-speed rail, and giving equal rights to men and women to change their last names when they are married or become domestic partners. She is also a co-author of SB 840, a bill that creates a single payer universal health care system throughout California. Ma currently serves on the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media, the Committee on Health, the Committee on Public Safety, the Committee on Revenue and Taxation, and the Committee on Joint Legislative Audit. In addition, she is the chair of the Select Committee on Domestic Violence. [edit] ControversiesMa has had very loose associations with two convicted felons, Norman Hsu and former Triad society figure Raymond Kwok Chow. She received substantial donations from Hsu and his associates in 2007, and her office issued a certificate of honor for Chow in 2006. Additionally, she received money in 2004 from a cement contractor suspected of substandard work. Ma returned this money when she found out about the substandard work. The Paw family of Daly City (associates of Norman Hsu) made combined donations of $10,000 to Ma on May 20, 2007. On the same day, Hsu gave an additional $5,000 under his own name.[5] Donations by Hsu, and Winkle and Marina Paw represent more than 50% of donations by large donors contributing $5000 or more to Ma in 2007. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have chosen not to keep Hsu's contributions and are reviewing contributions from the Paws.[6][7] In 2006, a member of Ma's staff presented Raymond Chow[8] a certificate of honor from the Board of Supervisors. This individual has been implicated in attempting to extort $100,000 from Allen Leung, who was murdered after refusing to pay. After Leung's murder, Chow took control of the Hop Sing Tong. Ma said "Raymond Chow says he's learned his lesson the hard way and wants to be a positive influence on the lives of young people. I'm an optimist and want to believe that people mean what they say, but only time will tell."[9] In 2004 Ma returned campaign contributions from Ricardo Ramirez, the owner of a concrete company whom over the years had contributed to the campaigns of John Burton, former Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante, and former Mayor Willie Brown. After she had collected the contribution, evidence emerged that Ramirez had supplied substandard, recycled concrete for several major San Francisco construction projects, including the rebuild of the Bay Bridge eastern span. Once this evidence was revealed, Ma returned the contribution given by Ramirez.[10] [edit] References
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