Assemblyman Van Tran’s popularity in Little Saigon may not be what it once was - and that could give an opening to Quang X. Pham in the 2010 challenge of Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Garden Grove, according to this post on the Little Saigon Inside blog.
You’ll recall that Tran announced his bid for the race on May , and I helped Pham get his cat out of the bag in this post on May 11. The Bolsavik blog then chimed in here about Pham favorable image in Little Saigon.
“Tran needs to prove himself again that he is a worthy Vietnamese candidate within his community,” writes Vinh Nguyen at Little Saigon Inside. “He has not done anything to benefit the community except for some Freedom flag waving ceremonies and meaningless jingoism on freedom and democracy for Vietnam.”
I don’t know if Vinh Nguyen has some personal ax to grind with Tran, but these aren’t the kind of comments you came across very often in Little Saigon when Tran was running for Assembly. During Janet Nguyen’s contentious supervisorial race, the rumblings began.
“(Tran) has done a job in building up his image as a political Godfather of the Vietnamese community. With his infamous ‘Trannies,’ he has managed to cause a great concern within his own community as a power hungry kingmaker/politician,” Vinh Nguyen writes.
“Almost half of 47th District falls within County Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s District 1. By publicly attacking Nguyen and calling her falsely as a ‘Viet Gian’ (a word implying a traitor working for the communist government) and communist sympathizer, Tran has distanced himself with many Nguyen’s supporters. It was a bitter special election where Tran engineered Dina Nguyen and his cohorts to an at all cost war to ensure Janet Nguyen would not be re-elected. This was not the political leadership and unity that the Vietnamese community expected of Tran.”
Vinh Nguyen’s got plenty more to say about both Tran and Pham in his post….
Martin Wisckol,
Vinh Nguyen? really. The Democrats keep on hoping against hope.
This blog is full of misinformation and falsehoods. The blog is created out of San Jose, hundreds of miles from what’s going on in Orange County. This guy, Vinh Nguyen, if you can believe that’s his real name, has an ax against Van Tran as big as a Viking sledgehammer.
Yeah, this is pretty flimsy stuff Martin. Are you going to start reporting blog comments too as news because I have heard on Viet chat boards that Van Tran is more popular than ever. I’ve also heard on Hispanic chat and e-mail groups that Sanchez is really unpopular with latinos. Can you believe it? It also said Sanchez has not done anything to benefit the community except for some inappropriate Chrismas cards and killing any new freeway projects. I look forward to your next blog about the hot news item I just blogged on.
I’m pretty sure Van didn’t call Janet a commie. It was more like she didn’t know what she is doing and is being used as a puppet by folks sympathtic to the Viet government. And Tran’s letter was a response to an ugly hit piece Janet’s camp put out on not just her opponet Dina nguyen but on Tran too - who was not running in the race. Boy Wisckol is really selling the spin of this blogger who obviously has a twisted version of reality and the truth.
Janet and Van both agree that we should not be saddling the next generation with trillions of dollars in debt. Only Sanchez and Pelosi think that is responsible.
This guy just straight out lies. When did Van Tran ever say Sanchez is a Latino politician with a narrow focus on Latino issues and concerns. He has never said anything even close. It is the media that has turned this into a race battle.
It might be true that she has a narrow focus but it is on liberal issues, not latino ones. Heck, most blue-collar latinos in her district would like to ride the 241 extension she killed or would like to keep terrorists out of our backyard and keep Gitmo open and most think traditional marriage is worth defending. Sanchez supports none of these positions.
I’m Robert Lauten, the American Independent Party candidate that got 5% of the vote in 2008, when I ran against Loretta Sanchez. I will not run against her again. I pulled more votes from the Republican candidate than from Sanchez. Good Luck for her opponent in 2010.
Van Tran is by far the most well known and popular politician in the Vietnamese community.
How do I know? I have volunteered and worked on phone banks for Van Tran and his fellow GOP candidates. I have called thousands of Vietnamese voters in the area in the last couple of campaign cycles. Van Tran’s name overwhelmingly evoke positive reactions from the household members who pick up the phone. I use Tran’s name as an entree with every phone call and never get hung up with a Vietnamese household. This guy is a brand iname n the community.
This guy has a lower than average IQ and has strange personal vendetta against our good candidate Van Tran.
A resident of a San Jose area, is comletely clueless on OC politics and no one pays attention to this weird dude.
Wisckol,
I you want to run a political add, you should pay for it just like everyone else. Until then stick to the news, not your personal feelings.
Does Loretta Sanchez Take the Gitmo Issue Seriously?
Sanchez Voted to Block Amendment Critical to Ensuring Americans’ National Security
Washington- Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) voted today to block an amendment that would put critical safeguards into place to protect American families from terrorists currently detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (House Roll Call 261).
“President Obama used a Jan. 22 executive order to give the military a year to shut down the prison facility. But nearly four months later the White House, the Defense Department and the Justice Department have not announced what they plan to do with the several hundred detainees still at the facility.” (Molly K. Hooper and Reid Wilson, “Boehner to call for GOP unity on Gitmo detainees,” The Hill 05/13/09)
As Congress takes up an important war spending bill, the issue about what to do with terrorists detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is a critical component of the debate. Democrats in Congress and the President have promised to close Gitmo, but have outright failed to deliver a comprehensive plan for what to do with these detainees and have failed to install certain safeguards to protect Americans from these terrorists.
“Loretta Sanchez failed to protect her constituents today when she blocked a proposal that would hold the President and Congress accountable for their reckless idea of closing Gitmo with no real plan in place on what to do with the terrorists detained there,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “Sanchez has exposed her unwillingness to take national security seriously at the expense of the safety of American families.”
Today, Loretta Sanchez voted to block a critical amendment that would have prohibited taxpayer funds from being used to transfer or release Gitmo detainees into the United States. Additionally, this amendment would have required the President to certify in writing that anyone who would be transferred or released does not pose a security risk to the United States. Also, it would require that the President must receive consent from the Governor and State legislature of the State in which the President plans to transfer or release a detainee.
The amendment that Loretta Sanchez voted to block would have also required that the President submit to Congress a detailed cost analysis for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and related costs to transferring, detaining, prosecuting, or releasing a detainee in the United States by August 22, 2009.
Why doesn’t Loretta Sanchez want to hold the President and the Congress accountable for their vague idea of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility with no real plan in place?
Listen to Loretta’s speech carefully and you will see her mental capacity is basically absent or significantly lower than average citizen.
We need a new leader.
When I think of Loretta Sanchez all I can think about is her chubby face with her chubby cat eating a big mac with chubby Dena Bunis.Yuck!
What written in this article are showing that Quang X. Pham will be used to crush Van Tran not Loretta Sanchez as Quang announced.
Hanoi has any role in this tactics and between Tran and Sanchez, Honoi will pick whom to crush?
Answer is clear, Tran and his group have been annoyed Honoi so much and so long.
Wow, the first blog entry by Martin Wisckol that puts Van Tran in somewhat an unfavorable light and the Republicans circle the wagons to attack Wisckol who is usually his cheerleader. (I think Martin gave Van Tran his “godfather” of Little Saigon title). Martin did not include the Bolsaviks entry that at his Little Saigon press conference/candidacy announcement, Van Tran repeatedly stated that only a Viet can and will protect the interests of Viets. Wonder how that sits with the minority/people of color deficient party (Republicans recently acknowledged this when finally looking at themselves in the mirror).
Not true that Tran said “only a Viet can and will protect the interests of Viets.” The Assemblyman said no one undertands Vietnamese issues better than someone who is from the community and has lived those issues. Idoits and psudo-journalistist like Bolsavik and Vinh Nguyen spun it into a tribal politics statement. I guess you hear what you want to hear. Much like the outright lie that Van said Sanchez is a Latino politician with a narrow focus on Latino issues and concerns. Where do these weirdos get this stuff? And why does the OCR report it? Don’t they check their facts in journalism anymore?
Who’s care about who has written what in the blog. I’ll vote for VanTran!
Who is worse? Van Tran or Janet Nguyen? Vote now at http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/05/van-tran-is-bad-but-janet-nguyen-is-no-better/.