Well, I did not write anything for so long even after April 30. I was concentrated more about Vietnamese candidates and voters and voter’s rights issues. I was thinking about open up vietvoters.com a little bit but I could not find a balance solution yet. Enclosed is Phu Nguyen fundraiser event in May 2010.
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Supervisor Janet Nguyen campaign flyers are flying around Vietnamese forums/mailing lists.
Enclosed is Janet Nguyen’s flyer with the theme “3 Votes 3 Years in March”
Joseph Dovinh got attention lately because of his support to McCain, friend of Van Tran, name calling, job description, etc… However, Joseph Dovinh was registered as a Democrat and running against Phu Nguyen in the Democratic primary for the rights in November election to replace Van Tran in 68th Assemble District of Orange County, California.
03/13/10: Ứng Viên Dân Biểu Đỗ Vinh: Ưu Tiên Nhà Cho Dân Nghèo VietBao.com
03/03/10: “Joseph Dovinh’s entry into the Democratic primary for the 68th Assembly District is attracting scrutiny from fellow Democrats suspicious of the Westminster candidate’s credentials”, from Assembly candidate’s party loyalty questioned BLOG
03/01/10: The Van “Trannies” in Democrats Clothing – “Doh!”-vinh
02/16/10: Nhà báo Ðỗ Vinh tranh cử ghế Hạ Viện California Nguoi-Viet.com
Back to the Republican primary for 68th Assembly District seat, Long Pham started to promote his campaign in Orange County. He didn’t have any Vietnamese opponent yet in this race. That’s a good sign.
Enclosed is URLs of some Vietnamese news and English Blog articles.
03/12/10: “In the Republican primary to fill Tran’s 68th Assembly District seat, Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor is facing county schools Trustee Long Pham.”, from Candidates meet deadline for June 8 primary The Orange County Register
03/12/10: Ứng Viên Phạm Kim Long Tiếp Xúc Với Truyền Thông VietBao.com
03/11/10: Tiến Sĩ Phạm Kim Long loan báo ứng cử dân biểu tiểu bang Nguoi-Viet.com
For your information, Cheri Pham is running for Superior Court Seat in Office 39 in Orange County … but she didn’t have any opponents.
Enclose is the link of Vietnamese article in VietBao.com and English article in RedCounty.com.
03/03/10: Cheri Phạm: Nữ Ứng Cử Viên Chức Vụ Chánh Án Quận Cam
02/16/10: “In Office 39, Deputy District Attorney Cheri Pham will also run unopposed for the seat of retiring Judge Peter Polos.”, from Three OC Superior Court Seats Will Go Uncontested
Just like Clint Eastwood movie, the Republican Primary for Congress in the 47th Congressional District have 3 Vietnamese American candidates. At the moment, Quang Pham is looking like the “good guy” because of inexperience in politic. Tan Nguyen tried again after losing to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez for in 2006. Because of the incident in 2006 campaign by sending out intimidating letters by his campaign to Latino voters and going on Federal investigations, Tan Nguyen is “ugly guy” to the Democratic party and Latino voters but Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez wishes to choose against him rather than against Quang Pham or Van Tran. Van Tran lately becomes the “bad guy” because of accusing by Quang Pham on cheating to win a California Republican Assembly endorsement and the article of Brian Joseph (the OC Register’s Sacramento reporter) who wrote an article (“How lawmakers turned a perk into profit”) by using Van Tran name instead of other lawmakers in California. You need to wait to find out which candidate that O.C. Register will endorse in November 2010. If you are comparing Van Tran perk with the perk from Congressmen/Congresswomen in the Capitol Hill then it’s a joke. If you are running for political seat then you could not get away from people try to get you down. Hey, it’s the Year of Tiger and the battles will be big. The winner will take it all. It will be not nice this year political world.
By looking at pictures of the parade of Little Saigon in Orange County from friends and Vietnamese forums, Vietnamese American voters suddenly became important for anyone such as Loretta Sanchez, Van Tran, Quang Pham, Phu Nguyen, Joe Vinh Do, Long Pham, etc.
Loretta Sanchez seat is no longer secure according to one Orange County politcal blog site which is favored Quang Pham. Quang Pham also got endorse from Duncan Hunter congressman.
02/12/10: “Assuming Mr. Pham and Mr. Tran do not brutalize each other too much in the primary, the pundits might finally get their wish: no more Loretta Sanchez.”, from Editorial: Last term for Loretta Sanchez? by The O.C. Register
She could be boot out by Vietnamese American or Republican voters. Loretta Sanchez could not count on Human Rights Bills for Vietnam because those bills will die in Senate after one year if didn’t get to introduce in Senate … unless Democratic party try to helping her by John Kerry and Jim Webb to push … at least one of human rights bills for Vietnam. If it didn’t happen then Loretta Sanchez could be on life support which Barack Obama couldn’t help her much like 2009 Virginia governor race, 2009 New Jersey governor race, or 2010 senator race in Mass.
Loretta Sanchez got a lot of money in this year election but she couldn’t buy voters.
According to one Vietnamese article of BPSOS by Dr. Thang Nguyen, Loretta Sanchez didn’t bring a penny into Vietnamese community in Orange County when comparing with Van Tran or Vietnamese American in USA when comparing with Joseph Cao.
http://machsong.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1787
Van Tran worked hard on introduce big name staffs in his camp last week, fundraising events in new year, and starting show up on campaign trails.
It doesn’t matter if Van Tran or Quang Pham in the Republican primary. However, if they learn how Van Hollen beated Connie Morella in the 8th District of Maryland then they will have big chance .
