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.
Andy did not have to return to his home every night all the way across the city line….to see his kids and wife like Do Do. Only because Do’s family has refused to leave their good home in Santa Ana.
Darn it! Andrew Do has another option!
Divorce his wife and live alone in the GG rental room!
Or ….Andrew Do can run for the seat in Santa Ana now! And if he wins the race, just move back to his home in Santa Ana ……cherishing his new little name tag “Santa Ana councilman” .
Andrew Do would then …ask us “Where is Garden Grove?”
When someone is keep digging a hole for himself…….he must stop digging… in order to avoid more troubles in the future.
Andrew Do, stop digging!
Come out clean now and make some wise decisions regarding “residency issue”!!!
Ummm, given the amount of time the three Viet-AM politicians in OC spend their time, they should change their address to 15440 Brookhurst St, Westminster, CA aka Citryst.
Don’t worry, they will leave the light on in the front and the video camera inside turned off…
The shaft leader spends more time there than his own family, and the Baoding ball followers are either getting drunk or talking tough on the laptop.
Come clean stain face and gang and change your address to the Citryst restaurant…then you don’t have to drive home drunk or drive anywhere for hookers. Everything is there at your disposal. Why not use campaign funds to officially open citryst as a political field office?
Everybody gets serviced…on someone else’s tab.
There are plenty of people who have seen the three individuals there shitfaced and sexually aroused…man, hope the wife or girlfriend can’t read English or access Bolsavik. Else, someone’s family may be in trouble…Wait didn’t a Westminster councilman help two women buy their home but he the councilman does not hold a job?
Umm…wait, if he is not working, did he grow a money tree in his backward? No, it comes from the $2,000 stipend he receives from his boss, and that allows him to put down 20%…man, that’s what I call making the dollar stretch…
All that said, I have to hand it to the political party recruiter…that person sure had an eye for quality. Must share the same value and vision as Roman Polansky…Keep on trucking…
We should be ashamed to have all these dirty Vietnamese politicians representing us . Keep all this in mind when the next election coming up in 2010. Do not give them any more power so that they can go on and pull all those dirty tricks again. We should be voting for those representatives who will look out for our best interests instead of their own.
Talk about Viet helping fellow Viet…Whose platform says only a Viet helps another Viet? Or something to that effect? Ask Hugh Nguyen who is running for Clerk-Recorder for the County.
Almost everybody in high political office (both Viet and non Viet) supports Hugh because he has been with the department the longest and can manage the office on all levels. He has managerial abilities.
He attended our venereal assemblyman’s get-together in Santa Ana about a month ago to seek our top Viet-Am politican’s support. Had Hugh been rebuffed, then Hugh would have been acknowledged by our venereal assemblyman. The assemblyman simply ignored Hugh and supported a less qualified candidate who happens to be white.
Ummm, let me try to understand this situation…a scum bucket Viet-Am politican assemblyman running on a racist platform and ignores a fellow Viet who does not have the financial guns to match his rivals and asks only for endorsement.
Our anti-commie douche bag cowardly thug venereal assemblyman simply turns his back to truly a shining star in the community. Our Viet-Am assemblyman is the shining beacon of Viet-ness. What can I say? He embodies what being Viet is all about…Our assemblyman is deathly afraid to promote qualified candidates because he knows is as stupid as an excrement, so he has to eliminate all competition.
Dingo;
Our venereal assemblyman certainly have good noses for money. A plus and a must.
What are you talking about?
Ha Ha Ha! Dingo must got feelings hurt from Tyler dating chicks outside of her league. Who said plastic surgeons are expensive?
Hey Andrew Do, so is it a egg first or a chicken?
Resigning council post voluntarily or only after public whipping with a leather belt?
Heck, Andrew can divorce his aged wife and just commit to that one college girl (she is probably done with her education by now) from Fountain Valley.
It’s a good excuse..if you can not get support from your wife to fulfill your political ambition leave her! That’s what low class SOB Wannabe’s do anyways!
I hope Andrew Do can wake up and smell the roses again before he makes head line news for the Register! “A Viet Garden Grove councilman lives in Santa Ana”
I want to make sure our Assemblyman do not support this …….embarrassing/law breaking selfish Andrew Do Do.
He is definitely going to hurt our community with his out pouring blinded greed.
Once our viet voters send Loretta a eviction notice from her office next year, Mr. Van Tran can represent our interests at White House. Cool!
Bo May and Dingdong Dingo,
You both are obsessed with Vebnereal Disease. Did you get VD in Tijuana?
Dingo
No Penicillin, they got the VD from sitting on a dirty places on the Fifth Floor.
Maybe a dirty wood splinters from old kinky chairs or sitting on a a used tooth picks…
Andrew Do, I have someone interested in buying your home in Santa Ana.
Bo May is an ass and a butt. Is he a Janet Nguyen lover?
Andrew Do, sell your home in Santa Ana now and you might find a solution.
It’s time to move councilman wannabe!
Andrew Do can sign up for a short 30 day escrow and keep his GG council member crown. What a sweet deal!
NONE OF THESE VIET POLITICIANS ARE CLEAN. DINA NGUYEN IS JUST A FOLLOWER,SHE’S TOO DUMB, SHADY AND CORRUPTED; ANDY QUACH IS ARROGANT AND A TOTAL CROOK; VAN TRAN IS A BITTER LOSER, HE WILL CONTINUE TO DIVIDE THIS COMMUNITY UNTIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT, MORALLY AND FINANCIALLY!!! TYLER TRUONG DIEP IS THE WORST OF THEM ALL!!! HE’S LEARNED FROM THE BEST SCOUNDRELS IN TOWN!
LETS MAKE SURE DINA NGUYEN, ANDY QUACH, AND VAN TRAN WILL NOT BE RE-ELECTED AGAIN IN 2010. WE WILL DEAL WITH TYLER TRUONG DIEP WHEN HIS TIME COMES.
Are you talking to our beloved Geoge Bush and Obama company C. Vo?..Just curious.
C. Vo,
You can be very entertained and relaxed if you look at these Viet politicians like a scaled downed version of our own national leaders.
Think of Dina Nguyen like Nancy Pelosi…..just talks and talks and talks…..and nobody knows half of what she said, so?.
Andy Quach is like Ted Kennedy……nothing but a name and a party boy, and get paid for it too.
Van Tran the God Father crap can be considered like current Obama….spending a lot of money and efforts for no results…
And that dude Tyler Diep is a very tricky to compare to any past or current Washington politicians….Maybe Al Sharpton?..Or Jesse Jackson?..
See the beauty of living in Little Saigon?…A tiny but colorful small United State of America…Why all the hatred?..
C. Vo are you intersted in a fire sale opportunity?
A blinded councilman wannabe Andrew Do needs a fast escrow on his Santa Ana home!
Sony Tran, massage parlor trainee idiot, I think your spoiled brain cluster is mixing the political party;
Our highly respected Mr. Van Tran is a Republican and wasteful joe mama Obama is a Devilcrat.
Andrew Do is however, one of kind… a Councilcrat!
Got it? Ding Dong?
Wow…..How do you know my dream job of working at a massage parlor?..Getting all those free p–sies?..You definitely are a genius Giun Kim.
And if you are not related or maybe one of those politicians yourself, why all the name calling every time someone mentions Van Tran s name?..
What makes him superior to any other working stiff outthere?.
I don t give a rat s ass if i m talking to President Obama or a local lowly Councilman, he\she is no better than a person with fancy decorating barges and symbols on them, that s it.
So, even i m not claimed a genius like you….but it s also not hard to bait you to show your true color. It makes my day.
Have a good weekend.
Oh….And if you ever got paid by Van Tran? Take the money…call a local bookie and bet on…Green Bay-3, San France+12, and Jet-3….
you might relax like a normal person for a weekend, would ya?.
Jung Kim has an unhealthy obsession with blogging to express his undying love to public male figures, selected city officials, and quick to show anger through condemnation statements to those who speak against his idols….
Van Tran, Tyler Diep, Andy Quach, and Andrew Do, Janet, too.
Oops, strike Andy Do and Janet…
Sonny Tran, the way you are playing with your little mouth ….you won’t get free p**sies but you might end up with shovel full of cow manures.
You wouldn’t give rat ass ……………but one night some chimpanzee might take piece of your ass when you are standing close to the wall so don’t be too confident with your red rear.
I do not work for anybody……. including Mr.Tran but I am the official Guru and it’s more than a full time job.
Bo May, is this your confession session?
Go swallow joe daddy Andrew Do and keep your itching throat occupied !
You re a hard-core supporter of Van Tran?…
No wonder why he s losing to a Mexican girl Loretta in a highly populated Viet community.
Wow…..That opens my eyes up.
Have a good weekend bud…Remember, bet a few bucks on NFL and enjoy.
Sonny Tran poopy chow chow, get some facts right …..joe mama Loretta is losing in her own chola turf. Santa Ana is sick of her lack of leadership!
Loretta Sanchez is a whore! Joe Baca says so and you better believe it.
Van Tran is our pimp! We all say so and you better believe it.
If Loretta is a whore, then Andrew Do, Janet Nguyen, and Nick the “lawyer?” Le Cong must be her “account executives”.
We all say so and you better eat it. Andrew, Janet and “Nicky” share in the commission.
Loretta is stupid to have all these ” account executives”. I work alone so all the profit are going to me. Don’t you see how fat am I these days?
Hey idiot, “the official whore” Loretta said she doesn’t work for Mr.Tran.
Nick Le Cong might be the pimp you were looking for……… check his cell phone calling history and see if
Loretta’s number shows up.
Duhhhh! Why do you think Van is so bitter? Loretta is not stupid to work with Van.
Ding Dong! that prove the other one was an idiot…..a whore usually works for a pimp and our Assemblyman is not a pimp. Ask again to Loretta!
Ask that control freak….self proclaimed donkey hole, Nick Le Cong about illegal prostitution ring in Little Saigon.
Come on Jung Kim, you know nobody better about prostitution than me. If you want to get lay for cheap, call me or better yet call my Dizzy.
No, Nick Le Cong will take care of your deep frustration.
Loretta must be sad with fast disappearing voting block.
They are getting sick of her monkey business!
The only 3 monkeys I see here are: Andy, Dizzy, Diep Shit and… you the chihuahua so I guess your boss is busy raising money these days. If any of you ever get hungry, just call me…. I’m just a phone call away.
Lortta’s monkey business is being investigated by the Federal Authorities.
Stay tuned……..
Van’s wife was being investigated for insurance fraud but then . . . . so what ?
Hey crickets working for Loretta…….keep your eyes open for new job opportunities .
Hey chihuahua working for Van…….keep your eyes open for any left over cause it looks like the only one has been fed is your big fat boss.