The man credited with bringing community service and transparency to the Tet Festival is running to replace the termed-out Van Tran and is holding a fundraiser this Friday.
Phu Nguyen, former President of UVSA (Union of Vietnamese Student Associations), has declared his candidacy for the State Assembly 68th District. He will have to win the Democratic nomination before facing the Republican candidate.
His first public fundraising event is scheduled for Friday, January 29, 6pm, at Paracel Seafood Restaurant. See text of invitation here.
For a first-time candidate, Phu has quickly amassed an impressive array of endorsers. Even though there’s another Democrat in the running, many top Dems have endorsed Phu, including: the only OC Democratic Congress member, Loretta Sanchez; the only OC Democratic State Senator, Lou Correa; and one of two OC Democratic Assembly member, Tony Mendoza.
Phu is the second Viet to declare for the seat. Tran’s 2006 opponent and current OC Board of Education member Long Pham is also running on the Republican side. (If Pham doesn’t win the primary, Phu’s likely Republican opponent will be Costa Mesa mayor Alan Mansoor, and Mansoor’s colleague on the Costa Mesa City Council, Katrina Foley, has endorsed Phu.)
Phu Nguyen was UVSA President in 2001 when the organization (or rather a handful of key figures in the organization) modernized the Tet Festival and raised $80,000 doing it in Westminster, at the empty lot where the Vietnam War Memorial now stands.
The following year, the group held another successful Tet Festival at Garden Grove Park. The year after that, with Phu still at the helm, the group made a successful presentation before the Garden Grove City Council (where Tran was a member at the time) to win approval of a long term contract for the UVSA to hold the Tet Festival at Garden Grove Park.
The UVSA’s winning proposal includes two features that have become the signature aspects of the festival ever since: Donation of half the proceeds to community groups; and financial transparency.
In 2008, the UVSA won a 5-year renewal of the contract. Phu was in the audience at the council meeting supporting the current UVSA leadership.
Over the years, the UVSA has donated $880,000 (and counting, as the checks are still being cut) to various community groups and causes.
On Phu’s fundraiser invitation is another familiar name: Nicole Nguyen. Nicole is another key figure in the transformation of the UVSA and Tet Festival: She was the UVSA Vice-President for Internal Affairs at the time Phu was President.
(The VP for External Affairs was Bao Huu Mai. He’s famous for traveling to Vietnam, demanding to visit an activist held by the police, and ended up himself being held for 24 hours. Read more here.)
And you like to repeat all that, Da Thug Bo May? I know it would turn you on. Ha ha ha!!
I don’t think Bo May is a thug…… maybe a tick living off on Loretta’s manure.
Hi there Bo May,
Want a second round of my sweet candy BM? You are one dirty old man:-))
Stop talking trash on the blog, just do it privately. You are much better than that Thug Boss Janet Nguyen and her whiny little twerp Andrew Do. Be a real man will ya Andrew.
Which Andrew Do? The one who lives in Santa Ana?
Bo May,
You are a Viet thug who wants to go on this blog and terrorize other Viets. You are a blog terrorist and a loser.
Are you a gay or a bi?
I don’t know who are you talking about?
All I see is that you come up on this blog calling all other viet candidate and viet public servants all kind of names….Except van tran.
So, let me ask you a serious question? Why do you act like a religious extremist here? You gone berserk when some one making a statement about your leader van tran.
You are not much different from a Muslim Terrorist. who would go crazy when some one invoke their prophet Mohamed.
BTW: My sincere apology to the Islam folks for degrading them so much by using them as an equal comparison to the great Jung Kim.
IZ van tran a new cult?
Bo May,
Oh now, being a thug is one thing for you. Don’t get any illusions about being a Muslim Jihadists. You are too much of a coward to be that.
Which “public servant” and “candidate” do you love? Isn’t Janet Nguyen a real thug? How about her evil advisor Nick Le Cong? What do you think? They are playing the community and think nobody knows. Everybody knows.
Speak up and shout out Bo May. You are too mum for being a thug. People like you need to be screamed at tp get the message through your thick head.
Bo May is a community reject… with full of jealousy. You don’t need to give apology to Islam extremists for your unyielding loyalty to me you dumbdumb.
oh gee how nice i see jung kim has a bunch of new s/n’s he’s posting under. what a total loser.
He forgot who he is right now, a person with multiple personalities, wonder who is speaking inside that corpse of his at any moment. LOL
But whatever the names they appear here, one name would fit them all perfectly: ‘van tran extremist’, a computer blog terrorist, committing jihad in the name of the van tran prophet.
Hey Jung Kim: why don’t you just use that name from now on: van tran extremist.
IZ van tran a new cult?
All jokes aside, Kimmy, I feel for you. Please calm down. Put some senses in the little head of yours.
Stop calling other Viets candidates names, you only make the viets look bad, REAL BAD. Capris?
IZ van tran a new cult?
Jung Kim : Go Van Tran ! let’s go to Vietnam with Anh Cao
SBTN : Go Loretta Sanchez ! let’s go fight commie
Which side are you on ?
On the Move …. Out,
Loretta hasn’t done jack for the Viet community. She’s a big fraud along with her secret admirer, the gang boss Janet Nguyen. Ho ho ho!
Quang Pham, where are you? Ready to get your behind kicked?
But who is Quang Pham? Who cares and who knows.
As I said before and I say it now: Jung Kim will have a fist with any names beside van tran, his beloved venerable muhamed…. oops I mean his prophet.
IZ van tran a new cult?
Bo May,
You are thugging on this blog right now? You know Thug Boss Janet Nguyen’s not gonna pay you overtime for your blog terrorism.
Get off the blog so that you can go to the ditch for the County tomorrow morning. Just don’t thug other county employees around like your Thug Boss Janet. John Moorlach might stick it up yours too!
I think Bo May is also a fraud like his master Janet Nguyen. The biggest fraud of them all is Loretta Sanchez. One fraud admiring another fraud.
Wrong answer! And stop trying because all of you are too dumb to get it right! One idiotic comment after another just make all of you Van’s lovers sounded very stupid! Want to be smarter? Stop being Van’s puppet and quit kissing his ass !
Just Asking,
Bulls Eye and don’t deny it you county employee slaving away for your gang master Janet “The Dim Lit” Nguyen. You are just a dumb donut kissing this brat’s petard.
Get a real job and get out from under Janet’s skirts. She doesn’t wear a skirt! Is this Janet a she-man or what?
Wrong answer again! I told you to quit because you’ll never get it.
The only lovers in this blog are you horny idiots. The only kissing we could see are from all of you Van’s lovers. We are not interested in your leader’s feeling for Janet, tell him to be a man and take it up with her personally. Take your own advice and get out from Van’s underpants. It’s too suffocating, don’t you think?
Just asking, crawling from Loretta’s milk barn……. just start packing right now. Your boss will be wiping tables soon.
Mind boggling $ 17 trillion national debt and Loretta isn’t done wasting our taxpayer’s money. Get rid of her now!
Her unethical/ unofficial foreign trips paid for by our tax payer’s money could have saved some jobs in the state. Loretta is harmful to our economy.
Hey Just Asking,
Are you blogging on county time? That’s a big no no! Does your slave master Janet “the Dim Lit” Nguyen knows or is she on the computer herself feeling lonely?
Idiot losers like yourself come in and out of this blog like a night rat.
We don’t need to baby sit losers nor pay attention to them……..
We are just excited about our good Viet Assemblyman Van Tran representing us at Washington!
http://www.joinvantran.org
http://www.joinvantran.com
Stop wasting Van’s payroll! Keep giving the wrong answers will not make your leader look good! Van needs to clean up all these hoodlums to prevent further damage to his already bad reputation.
Over excitement will give you a heart attack! Especially when you’re already fat!
Only bad reputation our viets have is some community jealous idiots with stomach aches.
The only “heart attack” you need to be concerned is when your throat passage is blocked by a giant cucumber !
Hey, your skinny body comes with skinny ball sac! Ha Ha Ha!
Hey Just Asking,
I don’t work for Van Tran or anyone associated with his group. Unlike you idiot. I am not a waste on the taxpayers but employ you, a county political hack working for a Gang Master by the name of Janet.
Talk to your gang Master Janet “the skinny
” Nguyen to rein in her thugs like you, Andrew Do and Nick Le Cong. But you are already one of the three. Ha ha ha!
BTW, why is the Gang Boss Janet Nguyen always have her underbosses in tow whereever she goes? Is she scared of going to community events alone?
There are a few of Van Tran’s supporters on this forum so they blasted
Phu Nguyen without concrete proof to show any discredit.
The people who put Phu down should demonstrate any contribution to the society or they are just the parasites that suck ! and stay around to flame any new blood.
We need the new blood to replace Van Tran who monopolizes the political environment in the VNese communities.
Van Tran has shown the mafioso contribution to the VNese communities with ties to gang beat on other political candidates.
If you need the proof about what Van Tran did, then let me know so I can point you to the right place to read or provide you with links
http://www.joinvantran.org
http://www.joinvantran.com
Let’s join Van Tran to go to Vietnam and get rich with commie.
Who is paying for Van Tran ? commie
James,
If you like Phu so much, then campaign for him. He won’t win anyway. He’ll blow a good chunk of his wealth. It’s a bad year for all Democrats. Haven’t you figured that one out yet?
Don’t go on this blog bad mouthing Assemblyman Van Tran, whose seat Phu is trying to take. Why would you want to antagonize the guy, an incumbent, who can hurt you politically? You got no beef with Tran and should worry about your own race. Do you know how to spell STUPID?
What have you done to build this community but go around using mafia langague and slander? Your post have no value to me.
Please also don’t talk about new blood and old blood. I have seen Tran do a lot for this community and he will be able to do more in Congress. As for Phu, he got a long way to go.
I don’t see how could anyone could bad mouth van tran, his reputation is already bad. All you need to do is just speaking of the truth.
The truth has a funny way to sort thing out and make it easy for anyone who want to talk about anything in life, good or bad.
Bo May,
That’s your opinion and it really doesn’t count for much given your series of posts. Nobody can be mistaken where you stand and who you work for.
Your truth is someone else’s slander. So, you should keep your truth to yourself because you come off slanted beyond repair, and hateful.
Tran is doing a great job for the community and it shows in the high level of support he is getting in the community.
Bo May, go find some rice patch land and stay there.
We are all proud of our proud Viet Assemblyman.
You can keep crying until Janet can change your soggy diaper. She is good with kids….even with dumbdumb idiots.
Hey wrong answer, if you’re not on Van’s payroll then how on earth did you get the idea that Janet is my boss? Be real, would you?
Quote: ” Why would you want to antagonize the guy, the incumbent, who could hurt you polictically? “. Is this a threat? Sounded like gangsta to me!
And do we know how to spell STUPID?
Yes we do: V A N ‘ S W O R S H I P P E R .
Since you said that the big cucumber could blocked your throat passage and cause a heart attack … is that’s why you only like to play with small cucumber? By the way, remember to tell Van not to get too fat otherwise he couldn’t able to see his sacks! Haha.. Haha…
To Viet B. Tran;
Why must I keep it to myself? Huh? WTF? This is a public forum isn’t it?
My opinion based on truth not hearsay. Just type in van tran in this Bolsavik site and you can read a few blog on the man and his bad deeds.
Now, having said all that, what would you do to me if I keep on telling the truth about van tran? Sounds like a half-assed threat, but I ain’t worry none.
Now, If you believe van tran is a great public servant then I got a pedestrian bridge to sell.
…And in the same time, you guys go on making slandering character attacks on Phu and Quang, why?…What did they do to you?
So… let me borrow this phrase from you…”What have you done to build this community but go around using mafia langague and slander? Your post have no value to me. ”
And do you, van tran supporter have the license to slander while another must shut up?
Does the love for van tran make you guys loose all sense of logic and ability to see right from wrong?
Boo hoo hoo Bo May!!
. Picking fights again. It’s so natural for you isn’t?
Running out of damsels in distress to defend? You must be scraping at the bottom of the barrel to be speaking on behalf of Quang Pham and Phu Nguyen. What a pathetic lot.
You are living up to your reputation as a blog thug and an Internet terrorist Bo May.
You are just a small minded moron who just can’t stand Assemblyman Van Tran. It’s too hilarious if it’s not so dumb. Boo hoo Bo May! Whining like girl but wanting to be a thug.
Btw Bo May, speaking of a pedestrian bridge, didn’t your idol Janet Nguyen try to pull a fast one on a bridge that collapse on top of her?
Weren’t you in the bridge rubble also? What a joke!
Yes, of course, I know. Why do you think I would use that phrase for? Are you that stupid?
Do not care much for Janet, but I would not use this blog to put her down and to honor van tran in a childish way like you did….
IZ van tran a new cult?
Bo May is so upset and we don’t understand why….
Why would our Viet community success story make this idiot angry?
Go Mr. Van Tran! We are proud of your service.
http://www.joinvantran.org
http://www.joinvantran.com
Bo Bo, what is WTF? a White Trash Frog? Watch your little tongue you little community loser.
Hahaha, did I make you upset again?
Why waste time and energy for a loser like van tran? He will be mr. van tran nobody you know?
I like the sound of this, ‘the honorable van tran, nobody’.
Just don’t go jump off the pedestrian bridge when van tran loose his bid in the up coming election. OK?
It is not too late for you to apologize for all the things you say to our viet public servants.
Just type in van tran in this Bolsavik site and you can read a few blogs on the man and his bad reputation…so…just do that and come back here we can talk some more…
What do you say?… Oh, you can not bear to read them? I know the truth hurts doesn’t it?
Does the love for van tran make his follower lose all sense of logic and the ability to see right from wrong? Sad, very sad.
IZ van tran a new cults?
What sense of logic & the ability? If they have those qualities, they wouldn’t be Van’s followers!