Political news of the past week is that Dina Nguyen (photo, right), the Garden Grove councilwoman challenging Janet Nguyen (photo, left) for the Orange County 1st District supervisorial seat, hired JohnsonClark & Associates, commonly considered the top Republican political consultant in the state. JCA ran several successful campaigns, among which Van Tran‘s first assembly race.
OK that was the news. Now here’s the wrinkle:
Just heard on Red County, the conservative blog here, the opinion by veteran Republican pollster Adam Probolsky that JCA only signed with Dina Nguyen as a favor for Mike Schroeder, the local Republican boss and consigliere to the Van Tran camp. Quote:
“I believe their involvement is a favor to Mike Schroeder, not necessarily any, you know, excitement over Dina’s campaign or the fact that they think they can win or the fact that they think they can make money off of this thing. I think it’s, you know, Mike says I need you to put your name on this campaign and that’s what they did.”
Nonetheless, host Jubal a.k.a. Matt Cunningham said that with JohnsonClark on board he’s more confident Dina can force Janet into a runoff, than without JohnsonClark.
In an unprecedented first, this year’s election for Orange County’s highest elected office features an all-Vietnamese-American cast. In addition to Dina and Janet on the Republican side, the lone Democratic candidate is Hoa Van Tran, an attorney in the law offices of Do Phu & Anh Tuan. “Do Phu” is Phu Do Nguyen, now Hoa’s campaign treasurer. Read more here and here.
The election is nonpartisan, so voters can vote for any of the candidates regardless of party affiliation at the primary on June 3. If no candidate can receive a majority of the votes, the top two go into a runoff in November, something Probolsky thought would work to Dina’s advantage: She could go back to the donors who already maxed out on her, to ask for more.
dina’s only real advantage is her affiliation to Van Tran and that whole group. They have been known to be very aggressive when asking for donations. Dina has NO ability to lead OR to raise money (she totally depends on Van TRan and his camp for money),her first round was raised primarily by A Quach whom she’s known to be involved with even before his breakup from girlfriend Chow, over $60,000 was raised by A Quach & Van Tran, $25,000 was a loan from herself. That tells you she has no supporters of her own. If A Quach was not out there making promises and breaking legs for those donations, you think they would have even $40,000? I dont’ think so.
Dina is way too dumb, she can’t even file the forms right, one after another, then she collected funds before she even file the forms to run (illegal), then she file wrong donation amount… what else? That’s a joke. She’s good at making babies and wrecking other people’s home so keep doing what she’s been good at for over 2 decades, why change career now? POLITICS is not for YOU DINA.
Neither Dena or Janet are qualified to be supervisor. I have been watching Republican races for several decades now and these two people are way too inexperienced for this high seat. Dina is untested, Janet can’t even speak compellingly in front of a crowd. She relies on her own band of thugs – Andrew Do and Dick Lecong to do her dirty work and set things up and pay people under the table for votes and basically “speak” for her. Read the OC Weekly article by investigative writer Nick Schou which nails her. Nobody who used to support her still supports her, including her old boss, former police officer Ken Maddox… Let somebody with legitimate credentials take this office.
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it looks like Dina is trying to sell something in Bolsa . . . Don’t people know that she is DAMAGE GOOD ?