Comments on: Linh Ho, in the last minute

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:42:53 +0000

Linh has a real chance of benefitting from the Tran Nguyen proxy battle if she can get both camps to throw their second vote to her. This is a real and probable possibility.

If Linh does not win i predict she makes a real strong showing.

In the end, I think the most probable winner is iether Trung or Andrew Do by a razor thin margin. And Steve Jones. Lucas and Marcario and Linh Ho most likely in that order to follow.

By: Quang

Quang — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:05:50 +0000

i agree. when a vietnamese-american wins a congressional seat outside of “little saigons” like gov. bobby jindal in louissiana outside of a strong indian-american enclave, that would be international news. when a black candidate like j.c. watts (95-03) win a seat in a dominant white gop oklahoma congressional district, that was national news. with that said, linh ho is an intelligent and professional who got a taste of a real campaign.

By: let's go vote

let's go vote — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:54:53 +0000

no, linh will not win. americans do not know who she is. vietnamese tend to vote republican and she is a democrat.

one thing she would learn from being a candidate herself is that it costs a lot of money for an election nowadays. it will be to the point that there’s no point to run for a city council position, a position that is so insignificant, when the costs reach the range of $100,000s.

and why it’s so insignifant? orange county is about the size of saigon (former capital of south vietnam). the county has over 30 small cities while saigon has about 20 districts and wards, making the OC cities about the same size or smaller than a saigon’s district or a ward. and you represent what? a ward? that’s insignificant.

a mayor of an OC city is equivalent to a chief of a saigon’s district or ward, previously called “quan truong” and nowadays called “chu tich uy ban nhan dan quan”, literally translated as “chairperson of the district’s people’s committee”.

so, on one hand our community is young and small so these local elected officials look important but if we take a more serious look, they are not that important at all. we used to have congressmen and senators and president and vice president. until the day we have vietnamese congressmen, senators, president or vice president, nothing else is significant yet.

agree?