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Found this information from the Orange County Assessor’s office, about the property taxes at Dina Nguyen’s declared address - the one she uses to be eligible to run for Garden Grove City Council. Dina Nguyen is one of the three candidates - all Vietnamese - running for the OC Supervisor seat in the First District.

To link to the tax information, get to the Assessor’s office here. Enter this parcel number, which corresponds to Dina’s address: 099-063-16. (Dina’s address is public, on her Form 700, and that’s how the Bolsavik got the parcel number, but the Bolsavik would rather not disseminate the address itself.)

The due dates on her payments were:

First installment: Due 11/1, delinquent after 12/10/2007
Second installment: Due 2/1, delinquent after 4/10/2008

Her actual payment dates were:

First installment: 01/24/2008
Second installment: 05/14/2008

Late by more than a month. Both times.

It’s not as if she didn’t have the money to pay the $1,700+ bill — she had $25,000 to lend to her campaign.

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The Reg’s Martin Wisckol posted his interviews — three same questions for the three First District Supervisorial candidates. Janet Nguyen here, Dina Nguyen here, Hoa Van Tran here.

Told you to let Hoa speak.

See what he says about the next sheriff.

He can enunciate his position much better than his so-called “message control” one-french-fry-short-of-a-happy-meal henchman.

(Granted that he didn’t do his homework about some of the biggest issues facing the Board of Supervisors. But then again neither did Dina. But whatever Hoa needed to say, he said it, and said it well.)

Too bad Hoa allowed himself to be controlled.

Sorry Hoa, if you let people to do that do you, you have no one to blame but yourself when your campaign self-destructs.

You know what people say about not dating where you work? Yeah, the same thing applies to the running of your campaign.

Yesterday was the deadline for filing the second round of financial disclosures. The three Vietnamese-Americans running for First District Supervisor, incumbent Janet Nguyen and challengers Dina Nguyen and Hoa Van Tran all filed theirs. You can look them up at the Registrar of Voters web site: Janet, Dina, Hoa.

The bottom line: As of the end of the day on May 17, the cash on hand for each campaign is as follows: Janet $87,657.79; Dina $30,031.88; Hoa $23,416.62.

As you browse through these reports, keep in mind that nobody can contribute more than $1,600.

JANET

Janet’s report shows a contribution by Ruebén Martínez. The Mexican-American barber-author, winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant and whose legendary librería is in financial trouble, still gave Janet $150. Not much, but it means something.

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Remember Fatima? The soft-voiced singer with a mixed heritage mentioned here? She is back. She will be singing at the Border’s in South Coast Plaza today Friday evening at 7pm.

Fatima will sing some American standards, as well as a number of Vietnamese songs for which she wrote English lyrics. Some samples on her MySpace here.

This mix-and-match may be reflective of her own background: Fatima is 1/4 Asian Indian, her father is half Indian and a Muslim, her mother a successful Vietnamese teen-pop singer and a Buddhist, and so is Fatima. At 2 years old, Fatima moved from Vietnam to France, lived there for 7 years and then moved to California and has been here every since.

Fatima’s father Yersin Mougammadou is named after the Swiss-French physician who discovered the plague bacteria, and who came to live, work, and then die in what was French Indochina. A restaurateur by trade, Fatima’s father is probably the most well-read person in Little Saigon. Any book, magazine, newspaper, whatever that’s printed with Vietnamese words, he reads them. And can critically analyze them.