Susan Lee

DENVER - State Del. Susan Lee (D-Bethesda) is pointing to the importance of properly painting Barack Obama’s public image as a key goal of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

“I think this convention provided an opportunity for the American citizens to see not only what our party is about but what Barack Obama and his family’s like,” Lee told PolitickerMD.com at the Renaissance Denver Hotel during a morning reception. Lee is an add-on delegate for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY).

“There was a lot of emphasis on who the candidate is, where he came from, his background, his family and particularly with Michelle Obama,” she said. “They got to know her.”

Doug Ganlser and Susan Lee at an Asian Pacific Americans for Obama meeting in Bethesda Politcker Photo

BETHESDA – Doug Gansler, state attorney general and Maryland co-chair for the Barack Obama campaign, spoke at Wednesday’s Maryland Asian Pacific Americans for Obama meeting. Gansler was joined by Del. Susan Lee (D-Bethesda), who co-chairs the MAPAs for Obama and serves as deputy majority whip in the state House. Gansler has been the state co-chair of the Obama campaign for over a year.

“The Asian-American community, in my view, has two ways of going,” Gansler told a crowd of about 35, made up mostly of Asian-American youth and their parents. “One, sort of staying out of politics and government or two, getting involved and making the change from the inside in terms of politics.”