Following are the Bolsavik’s predictions on the various Viet candidates in today’s election in Orange County. Feel free to disagree. This whole exercise will be moot in about 9 hours anyway.
Will win:
Van Tran, for reelection to Assembly.
Kim-Oanh Nguyen-Lam (pictured, with State Senator Lou Correa behind her and, from left, Linh Ho, Robin Marcario and Ken Arnold), for reelection to Garden Grove School Board.
Truong Diep, candidate for the Westminster City Council.
Linh Ho, candidate for the Garden Grove City Council.
Frank Tran, candidate for Westminster School Board.
One will win but not both:
Andrew Do, candidate for Garden Grove City Council.
Trung Nguyen, candidate for Garden Grove City Council.
Will not win:
Joseph Dovinh, candidate for Coast Community College District and for Midway City Sanitary District.
Nam M. Pham, candidate for Rancho Santiago Community College District Santa Ana City Council.
Alex Lam, candidate for Stanton City Council.
John Chuong Nguyen, candidate for Garden Grove School Board.
Ethan Nguyen, candidate for Westminster School Board.
Nghia Nguyen, candidate for Westminster School Board.
Linh Nguyen, candidate for Westminster School Board.
no, linh ho will not win, or if she does, the other 2 vietnamese will not win.
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?
My recommendation list
Assembly seat —- Van Tran
Westminster – —–Truong Diep
Garden Grove- —–Trung Nguyen