Quang X. Pham, the former Navy aviator who introduced John McCain to the Vietnamese-American community in 2000, is throwing his hat in the ring and telling the OC Register’s Martin Wisckol here that he too will run for U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez‘s Congressional seat.
And so are met the expectations of two men considered most likely to run for Congress. Prior to Pham contacting Wisckol, Assemblyman Van Tran had already announced his intention (here). Tran and Pham are the two Viets most observers have expected to run for federal office.
The two men, however, took different routes there. While Tran was being the good political soldier, working his way up the GOP ladder, Pham was in the military, flying combat aircrafts and writing about it. While Tran half-heartedly ran a solo law practice, biding his time for political glory, Pham ran his own pharmaceutical marketing company.
In the Viet community, Pham is celebrated as a particularly articulate bilingual speaker who proudly wears on his sleeve both his military service in the U.S. and his heritage as the son of a South Vietnamese military officer. Both elements figured prominently in Pham’s book A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey. He has his own web site here.
Outside of the circle of the more attentive observers, however, Pham does not have a lot of name recognition. Of the people who do know of him, however, most have known for a long time that Pham harbors dreams of being a Congressman. As reported on this site here, last year Pham attended an exclusive bipartisan seminar intended to prepare candidates for Congressional race.
Since Pham is registered “decline-to-state” but has conservative/libertarian/free market/strong defense tendencies, most people have not expected him to fight an incumbent Republican. Most bets have been on Loretta Sanchez’s seat.
Most observers, however, did not expect Pham to run in 2010. Tran’s announcement has apparently forced Pham’s hands and prompted him to run now rather than later.
In 2000, when McCain braved the controversy over his use of an anti-Asian racial epithet and came to Little Saigon, it was Pham who introduced him to the crowd. That’s Pham in this YouTube video, starting at around 1:38. Away from the stage, though, some unfortunate events happened at that rally; read more here.
Another Military Crisis with North Korea :
North Korean aggressive testing of nuclear weapon and missile in the past 2 years has clearly illustrated that US past policy of harsh rhetoric and inactivity has been a total failure. With US pre-occupation of the two wars in the Middle East and the economic crisis, North Korean has taken on a more ominous and defiant posture, wanting to extract more financial concessions from her neighboring countries, South Korea and Japan.
President Obama and his National Security team would have to construct a new strategy with a more active engagement and more concrete punitive measures to demonstrate our commitment to reduce nuclear threats not only in North Asia, but also in the Middle East.
Defense will emerge as a national issue in the next election cycle.
Japan Prepares to Rearm its Defense :
A new defense agreement between the US and Japan should be announced soon which will enable Japan to start re-arming her military with offensive capability to face with new threats from North Korea.
Japan’s new robotic unmanned aircrafts are lighter, longer range, and much more capability than our drones by General Atomics and Raytheon.
OC Citizen wannabe from Uganda, all viets support Mr. Van Tran and you want us to stay away from our proud Congress seat candidate?
Go share bananas with chimp tribe friends you idiot!
Pham seems to have some legal trouble with his company in PA.
http://webapp.montcopa.org/PSI/Viewer/Detail.aspx?oq=aWQ9MjAwNjcyOTA3JmVudGl0eT1DYXNl
Jung Kim wannabe from Korea, I just want good, honest voters to stay away from any corrupted, crooked or slutty politicians. However, Jung Kim you seemed like you belong with those type of politicians . You sure do not sound like a good, honest person. Be smart & use your head . . . BTW, do you happen to know which head you need to use ? … Nope, not that one ! … No wonder !
Pham Xuan Quang has too much pride when joing the race and giving press responses like he would register as a Republican if Van Tran drops out of the race (how possible?). He thought he is somebody after publishing a book, getting an MBA and being a CEO of his company. Well, that’s quite an accomplishment but remember many others also accomplish something like that.
Take Dr. Tran Hung Phong as an example. He has a degree in medical, then an MBA from the very same school of Mr. PXQ (UCI), and is the president of his own medical group. He’s better known in the community than Mr. PXQ. Or take Dr. Tam Nguyen for another example. He also has an MBA and is the owner and president of one of the largest beauty schools in California (Advance Beauty College). He is also well known in the community. Another example is Dr. Michael Dao, president and owner of Healthcare Systems 2000 medical center. He is very popular, too. The 3 mentioned above individuals are about the same age with Mr. PXQ, earn high degrees in their fields, have impressive accomplishments, and are very well-known. If they decide to enter the race, they would have the same qualifications and resources as would Mr. PXQ. They would have more popularity power, which Mr. PXQ lacks.
I hope Mr. PXQ will be more humble. Remember that “tre`o cao te’ ddau”. It will hurt him more if he is so arrogant, naive, and unrealistic.
OC Wannabe Politician from Uganda, just tell your villagers the truth…you wannabe somebody with decent title attached to your misearable name.
Why don’t you call yourself a king? Even better …… a King Kong?
All these man made titles are useless my friend and you need to kick off your adult diapers then grow up!
The truth ? The truth is you’re a useless person who has nothing to do with his pathetic life beside blogging in this forum trying to kiss ass some dirty politicians. You need to grow up and get a life & try to do something good for our community. If you so proud of being Viet, why using the name ” Jung Kim ” ? Are you ashamed of your miserable name or something ?
OC Citizen, aka A-Hole,
I saw your mom and dad last night and they were doing the thing. They were doing it at Garden Grove Park, outdoors for everyone to see. I know it’s your parents because they kept yelling, “OC Citizen is our bastard son and we want to disown him!”
Haha Haha, Oh my gosh what are you idiots would think of writting next ? Well keep doing exactly what you’re doing which is ” wondering ” . And BTW, what are doing in the park last night ? Peeping tom on people again ? You need to stop that, it’s pretty sick you know ?
OC Citizen, aka A-Hole,
Either you are dumb or you are stupid, or both. I was walking my poodle at Garden Grove park last night and ran into your mom and dad on the park bench, hardly peeping on anyone, since they were doiong the dirty thing and calling your name out in public. How shameful. But for a son like you, they wouldn’t know what shame is really.
OC Wannabe politician from Uganda, the truth will hurt your soul!
The idiot from the village of public ditch is not a revered politician ……but a laughing stock. No wonder this idiot always have a gay laughing style ie he he ha he he ha…~
Wondering woman, stop wandering around the park with your partner, I meant poodle . If you are trying to look for any decent man out there, unlikely he’s not going to be there . Be a good woman, stay home & take care of your children. If you want to learn a thing or two about doing it , there’s always a Blockbuster . In case of emergency, there’s always your poodle . . . Haha . . . haha . . .
Lefty pathetic creep wannabe Korean, the truth will open your chinky eyes !
I’m glad you stop crying & enjoy watching me laughing. I know you were hoping Van Tran is gay. . . well keep on hoping. Hehe . . . Heeeeeeeeeee
My God! I just spotted OC Citizen doing the hanky panky at Garden Grove Park. he just pulled his pants up and ran out of the park like a mad dog when the police came by with their lights.
To Oc]C Citizen, take your perversion into your cave, please, or you’ll be arrested for bestiality.
Wondering Wo Man, you need some advices. First of all, don’t call out God when you’re lying because He knows. Secondly, and this is kinda impossible for you but God would want you to get a real partner and start doing the humanly style instead of the doggy style. And lastly, don’t cry out bestiality when you’re the one with the dog in the park at 11 pm because it made you sounded like Van Tran when he cried out about ” fighting crime ” while he’s the one who is sleeping with a criminal.
No wonder woman, I saw this OC Citizen wannabe idiot digging around public parks with broken shovel….idiot is claimimg he is making a public toilet system for his family members…this ding dong mental patient has no shame! He will need a 5 gallon buckets to be used as washing jugs.
I think OC Wannabe will borrow these buckets from Loretta Sanchez…party woman Sanchez has plenty of vomit buckets.
Hey lefty creepy wannabe Korean, the word ” doggy style ” got your attention huh ! Don’t jump up & down with excitement now ! What ever you do don’t disappoint God & go back to the kinky style. It would be a match in hell if you & wondering Wo Man get together or are you two already found each other ?
OC Citizen wannabe, since you want to have something official title attached to you name ….how about a “Sir Cock Roach” or a “Dr. Doggy Citizen Sanchez”?
Gosh, stop jumping up & down would you lefty wannabe Korean! You’re starting wondering like the Wo Man , poking into all the wrong holes now. You’re right about one thing, Janet is pretty smart & that’s why she refuse to associate with you & she knows you do missed her once in while . . .
No, OC Citizen wannabe, Janet is pretty smart and that’s why I kept her for couple of years and I do miss her sometimes especially when you mentioned about doggy style.
You are an idiot!
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