AAA-Fund congratulates Bangladeshi-American Sheikh Rahman for becoming the first immigrant ever elected to the Georgia Senate. In the open primary this month Rahman won over 67% of the electorate in order to unseat a 14-year incumbent and to become the first immigrant ever elected to the Georgia Senate.  He will run unopposed in the November general election.

State Senate District 5 sits in the rapidly diversifying suburbs of Gwinnett County, just north of Atlanta.

Bel Leong-Hong, a member of the AAA-Fund board, stated that Rahman “campaigned very hard for that position, and convinced a lot of people to vote for him.  I strongly believe that  he won because he was a great campaigner, he is an activist, and he ran a great campaign.”  

Learn more about Sheikh Rahman on his website.

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