The man credited with keeping Supervisor Janet Nguyen‘s office running while political skirmishes are fought left and right has announced he’s leaving, according to Voice of OC here.
Chief of Staff Andrew Do, who’s also a City Councilman of Garden Grove, intends to go back to practicing law.
Widely viewed as highly intelligent, very loyal, but with a streak of a temper, Do helped navigate Janet Nguyen’s 2007 campaign through the recounts and lawsuit that ended with a 3-vote win over Trung Nguyen.
In Janet Nguyen’s 2008 campaign for reelection, Do adeptly countered accusations by Assemblyman Van Tran (read here and here, e.g.) and his acolytes that Nguyen is a commie. (For that matter, Tran’s men also called Do a commie.)
Last month, however, Do appeared to have bungled a huge political opportunity. After cleverly obtaining a permit for Black April at the Westminster Vietnam War Memorial by applying 8 months in advance, Janet Nguyen’s office could have made her the Queen of Little Saigon by inviting everyone to the party. But no, somebody had to play mi casa ain’t su casa.
They tried to have their own party with their handpicked list of participants, keeping out some other community groups. Now, said “other community groups” may be unattractive for a number of reasons, but that’s no excuse for committing political malpractice.
As a result, Janet Nguyen lost her preferred time slot, got dragged through an unnecessary controversy, and made enemies where there were none before.
It’s not clear if it was Do’s idea or he was merely cleaning up after someone else’s mess, but Do was at or near the center of the dispute the whole time, getting on radio and fighting the “bad guys,” and representing Janet Nguyen at all the negotiations and meetings.
Do is a former prosecutor in the OC DA’s office, where his wife Cheri Pham still works. She’s on the ballot to fill the OC Superior Court seat left open when Judge Peter Polos retired. Pham is unopposed.
Andrew Do should have never messed around with our community’s Black April event.
I would like to thank our community members for helping me to fire this stubborn idiot.
he should have stayed with ocda.
Andrew Do needs some medical evaluation on his mental disorder behavior ….often causing short temper/hatred against our Viet community.
Andrew Do is an incompetent lawyer. He can’t hold a job for long. He was in private practice, a public defender and a deputy DA who can’t get promoted for his lackluster court room performance.
It’s pretty desperate for anyone who is a lawyer to be working for an immature person like Janet Nguyen.
Do has been a buffoon and a blow hard while working for Janet Nguyen. It’s pathetic.
In that case…….Andrew Do will probably end up at his Lee’s sandwich shop. I am sure he knows how to wrap sandwiches with all his educational background.
Birds of the same feather do flock together. The likes of Janet Nguyen, Nick Le Comg and Andrew Do. They are all opportunists wearing empty suits.
Andrew Do is a whiner and he likes to go on VNCR whining on his political opponents. He sounded like a broken record. Good riddance. He should also quit his city council position and get a real honest living for a change.
Garden Grove City Council Members receive $6,000.00 per year, hardly enough to make a single payment for his 3,400 square foot mansion in Santa Ana.
Now Janet needs to cut ties with criminal Nick Le Cong.
Nick Le Cong is nothing ….. but a sicko old fart addicted to his imaginary power and influence.
Junk Kim is a low life low class citizen who calls people names like a little child with a filthy mouth. And he claims to be a Christian. What a joke.
This should be the first step toward resignment from public office for Andrew Do. Good riddance to a habitual liar. Thanks Janet Nguyen for finally throwing out the trash. Janet will now be exposed for being a no-brain.
Ho Ho Ho!! You are a Vinh Commie! You and fat Janet belong together with Nick Le Cong picking on your butt hole and smelling it. Ho ho ho!!
Good riddance to stupid Andrew Do. He’s so stupid and he’s a lawyer? Question: what is Do’s accomplishments on the Gatden Groce city councitl? A big fat zero. Good riddance from the county pay roll another leech name Do.
Andrew Do has not done anything that did not benefir him and his family. It’s time that he gets a real job because he can’t cut it a deputy DA. Why do you think he didn’t stick around the DA’s Office? This guy is a whiner and loose cannon.
Who will want to hire and work with Janet Nguyen when she is either termed out or kicked out of office?
Ho Chi Bean, Christians also love to exterminate harmful/disease carrying dirty roach like you ………constantly roaming around old food droppings underneath unsanitary trash bin.
kImmy, you and the rest of van gang are making us Republican look bad. If you don’t have any intelligent comment to make then shut the fck up!
Just Asking like a Virgin, you are not a Republican nor Democrat…..BUT you are major Retard!
kImmy, since when does your opinion matter? It’s such a shame to have someone as stupid as you for a Republican! Because of people like you that people don’t want to vote for Republican.
Just Askig!
You are already stupid beyond repair Just Asking! You are a dog stinking turd. Just flush you down the toilet. You and Loretta Sanchez and Janet the moron gang boss Nguyen.
Its people like Jung Kim who represent the republican party very well. Yes, we are low class racist ignorant uneducated morons. But who cares. Half of our country are proud to be this. Yee haw! We are the good Christians who molest children and build weapons to invade poor countries for their resources.
Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s’ new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree…and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
That boy really crack me up !
Yeah Just Asking! I am sitting on my crown right now and I see you floating below you little dog turd. Here you go Just Asking! Right down the sewer drain. Ha ha ha!! Where you belong with the hoe Loretta and the fat stupid face Janet. Ha ha ha!!
Just Asking like a Virgin, it’s retard like you makes our people look bad compare to other chimps around globe.
You need to go suck on Loretta’s nipple ….. you baby retard!
kImmy, van is not going to be able to nurse you forever. Don’t you think it’s about time to quit sucking his w_ _ _ _ _?
Just Asking like a Virgin, when you get sick of acting like a sissy girl attached to Loretta’s boob…… go meet a hunk to become a real woman.
I will have to refer you to Janet for good education…….she was naive curious virgin like you when first I met her.
kImmy, I’ll wait until you get sick of being van’s boytoy until then …..
Don’t be afraid of superficial tear……… it didn’t hurt much for my gal Janet.
kImmy, I bet you didn’t know what a heck you were doing …. still !
In the beginning……. yes! But now it’s whole different world.
That guy is a fucking scumbag
Hey, Paul, don’t use “f” words here…….. just say Andrew Do is a scumbag. and that’s why he is fired from Janet’s office.
Just Asking! The apologist for that itch gang boss Janet Nguyen. The two are like one. Stinking crap. Janet Nguyen = Just Asking!
Where’s your pride viet? She turned you down so just walk away, there’s no point of holding grudges.
Leave my gal Janet alone you people!
Janet is going to join this Guru ….. very soon. She certainly will have a better life with me .
I knew I should’ve nuked you gooks.
Junk Kim is a low life low class citizen who calls people names like a little child with a filthy mouth. And he claims to be a Christian. What a hypocrite. Have fun with Satan.
hey Jung Kim, go find a girlfriend or something. You stay on this website all day just to make your own people look bad. You belong in the bottom of the barrel.
NGO Dinh diem was a Catholic and he was murdered. He was a tyrant and got his due. Where is Just Asking the loser lout for fat face Janet Nguyen? Just Asking is a lousy loser for Janet the mafia boss.
Fat face Janet Nguyen? shameful, you must haven’t seen van lately.
Take a good look at Andrew Do’s stock picture above. Knowing his personality and his lack of respect for others. His eyes in this picture are saying clearly…..”I am smarter than all you pathetic mortals”. Him being asked to resign by Janet is just the beginning of this arrogant slimeball’s downfall. I hope it is not forgotten that Andrew Do and his wife..the soon to be judge Cheri Pham..have been defrauding the city of Garden Grove for a year and a half..pretending to live in Garden Grove, while actually living in a very ritzy section of Santa Ana/Tustin. Remember too, that Janet Nguyen put Andrew Do on the Garden Grove city council in order to get her husband Tom Bumakowski appointed to the planning commision. This is team Janets standard m. o. for the onset of political life. The damage Andrew Do has done to Janet Nguyen now eclipses whatever benefit he brought using his thuggery to get her elected in the first place. Now that is justice!
Eventually Janet will leave her loser’s association and join me in search of the true enlightenment with overflowing water of pure joy and happiness.
JA; I agree, bet ween the fat face janet and turtle face van tran? I think I would take the fat face any time. Turrrrrtle face van tran is just sooooo ugly.
Van Tran doesn’t stand a chance at winning because over half of the Vietnamese voters don’t even like him and will not donate to his campaign. They are sick and tired of this man who only shows up during election season and are tired of his gang of 7. He’s toast and everyone knows it.
Little Idiot, today.. more people are joining Mr. Van Tran’s camp to boot out moldy incumbent Loretta.
http://www.joinvantran.com
That’s why Van Tran and his campaign raised over 600K and still going strong after only a year.
Van Tran is the King of Viet politicians. Nobody in the Viet community can even come close to him. Janet Nguyen tried but she knows that she was his pupil and student.
The only toast is the one burning in your oven, with Loretta and Janet drippping fat.
And Sanchez has been busily shoring up her own standing within the Democratic-leaning district’s Vietnamese community. The chairwoman of the Congressional Caucus on Vietnam, Sanchez sponsored the Vietnamese Human Rights Act of 2009, which would condition aid to Vietnam on its record of political freedom. She has a full-time caseworker on staff tasked with handling concerns from the Vietnamese-American community.
“People always wonder how I win the majority of the Vietnamese vote, and it’s because I dialogue with them, and we work closely together on issues affecting the community,” Sanchez told POLITICO. “If you ask people in the Vietnamese community, they will say that Loretta Sanchez has worked very hard for us, and some of them would say they don’t even know Van Tran.”
Since ousting Dornan in her first race, Sanchez has shown little weakness at the polls and moved quickly to consolidate her hold on the seat. She defeated Dornan in a 1998 rematch with 56 percent of the vote, and she hasn’t received less than 60 percent of the vote since then. In 2006, she won 62 percent against a Vietnamese-American opponent who spent $548,000 on his unsuccessful bid.
Voter Above,
Nice little spin propaganda for your gal Loretta Sanchez. But really, she won’t be able to fool Viet voters this year. She knows it.
Hung, fooling is the only game that Van & his people are at best. Accused people of communist when he’s the one who has been accepting donations from the people who are associating with the communists. Where do you see he’s fighting for Viet because he’s Viet? Action do speak louder than words, he promised many but do you any?
Huy,
Yes, action is louder than words and Van Tran’s action for the Viet community has been loudest and longest. That’s no dispute. You are intentionally ignoring his achievements where most of the Viet local electeds, including Janet Nguyen who turned against him, was his follower and beneficiary.
Tran has done the most for the Viet community. I have followed this guy’s work for years and he is right there with the people on many of the issues this community cares about. Yeah, he has his haters, like you, but which politicians don’t have their detractors?
The Real Dumb Little Saigon Voter, your boss Loretta is a dirty whore … and she look down on Viets!
Loretta almost always make some belittling comments against our Viets in closed doors.
Loretta has made many of my friends upset during Tet festival events.
Dump Loretta whore!
http://www.sinksanchez.com