Campaign disclosures for Q3 of 2009 were due last week, and the two Republicans vying to replace U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez both show healthy numbers.
Assemblyman Van Tran, known for his fundraising prowess, pulled in a modest $91,809, according to his campaign disclosure here. This apparently smaller-than-expected amount, however, may be due more to the vagaries of the calendar: The previous quarter, he amassed a whopping $253,921.
What’s a little more surprising, is that political neophyte Quang X. Pham also showed he’s no light-weight. (Report here.) With his first fundraiser taking place in mid August, Pham still took in $63,858 in contributions, and lent his campaign $62,500.
Both campaigns easily dwarf the last Viet to challenge Sanchez. In the 2006 elections, Tan D. Nguyen took in a total of just $116,345.43 in contributions for the entire election cycle.
Tran and Pham, however, still need to do a lot of work to catch up with the incumbent. Rep. Loretta Sanchez is sitting on a war chest of $769,010.75 (report here) of which $134,838.40 were raised this past quarter.
Which they are. Tran told the Bolsavik, for his Nguoi Viet story here in Vietnamese, that he plans to raise and spend between $1 and $1.5 million for the general elections. “We’re on target to meet that goal,” Tran said.
Tran appears to dismiss the challenge posed by Pham, saying, “We won’t spend much on the primary.”
This appearance of indifference may or may not be warranted. Pham told the Bolsavik he’s looking to spend “$500,000 for the primaries and $1.5 million for the general.”
Practically everyone who’s previously contributed to Van Tran is contributing now. Also among the list of contributors is Long Kim Pham, the OC School Board member who ran against, and lost spectacularly to, Tran in 2006. Pham, who recently accused a Sacramento Catholic church of communist leanings, gave Tran $1,250.
Convicted and self-proclaimed “overworked” Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach, on the other hand, got paid by Tran. Quach received $4,000 – $2,000 per quarter – for “fundraising advice.”
The hefty amount of money means the race promises to be exciting. Already, however, Tran’s failure to reach six figures in the third quarter was noted by some Washington pundits.
The Hill, a political newsletter covering Congress, in a story here lumps Tran in the category of “hyped challengers” that “didn’t do much with their third quarters.”
The Politico web site, which was the first to break the story that the national GOP was recruiting Tran to run, in a post here calls Tran one of the ”disappointing House recruits” and warns about him becoming “part of the next crop of flops.”
Such focus on a single quarter may seem a bit unfair; after all, on a two-quarter basis, Tran roped in more than $344k.
Nonetheless, this sort of derogatives may very well hurt Tran with contributions by nationwide PACs and other fat cats when they parcel out pieces and parts to the lower house’s candidates around the country.
Hey Loretta, is it that time of the month? You sound like a nasty cat soon to be a homeless without a mate. Thinking about another Christmas evening with a body guard?
uhhh, did my comment about your boss hurted your feeling Jung? If you think that was nasty you shoud gone back & read all your posts… personally I think you’re having it everyday, not once a month like most of us do. And why are you so interest about who I am going to spend Christmas with? You got to stop this feeling you have for me, it’s a one way street and it’s very unhealthy!
Loretta! ……. “hurted” ? What kind of language is that?
Speaking spankylish?
You need a ESL classes before serving jail mates girl!
Loretta, you are in trouble! You can share one cell with your sister!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.html
chihuahua, you looked me up! May be I should give Van’s wife a call to get some tips on how to survive on a criminal charge. How much do you think Van would charge me?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.html
I looked it up and they say Loretta is in trouble with her sister Linda.
A collusion by tax payer’s money wasting …..two sisters? Ouch!
you looked me up AGAIN ! I think Bo May is right , you are a STALKER !
No, I like to read news articles from Washington Post!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.html
Here Jung, you can have some more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/contehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.htmlnt/article/2009/10/30/AR20http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.htmlent/article/2009/10/30/AR20http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.html09103001377.html0910300137http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.html7.html
Loretta, why are you so worried?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.html
Here, you can have these too:
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/10/politico-com-puts-van-tran-in-the-loser-column/
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/10/politico-com-puts-van-tran-in-the-loser-column/http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/10/van-tran-paid-drunken-andy-quach-2k-for-advice/http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/10/politico-com-puts-van-tran-in-the-loser-column/
I think staffs from the Loretta’s office should be worried.
Where can these crickets find decent work in today’s economy?
I think you need to wake Van up so he can raise some money, otherwise you should be worry!
Woa! Van Tran is holding his nut…thinking of his biatch A-Q, isn’t that what it looks like to you guy? LOL
Loretta, you are baaaaad!
Ha Ha Ha!
Loretta, since when you’ve transformed into a Boy George aka Art Pedroza?
Loretta do not worry about orange juice…… they will serve you plenty of OJ’s in the jail cell. Lucky you!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.html
Read this article…… on the way to your jail cell !
Be happy Loretta, Arturo babe!
Jung, did you wake Van up yet? Or have you fall to sleep with him too?
Wakki, Wakki…
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/10/politico-com-puts-van-tran-in-the-loser-column/
Loretta, your inmates will wake you up every morning!
Awesome!
Loretta, Art Pedroza wants you to read Washington Post article!
Enjoy!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001377.html
kimmy, loretta, get a room. I outta here (before the village elder tien huynh comes in this blog and scold us all with his Confucius quotes)
Loretta needs to resign…..before booted out!
Jung, are you in the jail cell? I can get you out baby, all you have to do is to make a confession to God about your feeling for me.
Loretta, I don’t believe it’s really you…but you sound darn close to her!
A dumb jail bird to be!
Come on Jung, you’re like a 3 yrs old… you believe anything! A dumb chihuahua !
Yeah yeah and you write… “hurted”! Mexican cholo wannabe!
Yah yah and that’s the only way you can understand! Tu madre !
Yah tu novio! Loretta! But no votes for you! Are you “hurted” again?
Yah tu madre! giun kim! save your vote for Van! It looks like he’s going to need more than I do!
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/10/politico-com-puts-van-tran-in-the-loser-column
Sorry about your boss! No ” hurted” feeling ok!