Heating up an already hot potato, the campaign to recall Madison Nguyen in San Jose last week began sending mailers to all the voters in District 7 represented by the embattled councilwoman. Click on the picture to see the entire document.
The Bolsavik was pointed to the mailer at the Little Saigon Inside blog here. It is unknown whether the author of that blog is related to any of the several commenters on Bolsavik.com who name themselves little Saigon this or little Saigon that.
Anyway, the anti-Madison forces are keeping their lips really tight. “For tactical reasons,” said Dr. Phu Le during his interview with the Bolsavik (published here).
There are some rumblings, however, that the Recall Madison petition may have up to 3,000 signatures, of the 3,200 required to qualify for the November ballot. They have about a month to complete their signature gathering.
The rumblings may not be correct: If you only have another 200 signatures to go, chances are you wouldn’t be sending mailers, yes?
Anyway, both the recall and the anti-recall campaign will file their financial disclosure on July 31. The information there will reveal more than just the amount in the war chests.
Total waste of money and time. People have too much of free time in their hands to mess around with this kind of stuff.
I’m proud to be a Vietnamese, but don’t you think there’s more important things to worry about? So what if Madison wants to call the area “Vietnamese Business District” instead of “Little Saigon.” What’s the harm in that? By either name, does it not validate the Vietnamese community? Come on! Are we that trivial and knit-picky?! I like to believe not…
As for the accusations of Madison being a Communist, this is nothing new. It’s like a modern-day witch hunt, where one neighbor accuses the other for purely personal reasons. Now, I don’t know who this Madison is and I don’t care, but before we start smearing somebody’s good name, let’s make sure we facts instead of accusations. And if it turns out that she is guilty for misusing her powers…then great…recall her. But before that happens, let’s be civil and rational shall we?