A Vietnamese-American community activst is running for the state legislature in Maryland, reports local paper The (Gaithersburg) Gazette here.
Each district in the Maryland House of Delegates actually elect not just one but maybe more than one delegates. Democrat Hoan Dang is running for District 19; the district has 3 delegates, all Democrats, and two are not running again.
The latest news on Dang’s web site boasts endorsements from a city council member and a delegate from another district.
Dang has been on the Board of the Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association for a decade or so, and its chairman and president from 2001 to 2009. The MVMA is an immigrant-assistance community group serving not just Vietnamese but other ethnicities as well.
If history is a guide, though, serving the community rarely translates into getting the votes. (All the current Viet electeds in OC have zip community service in their past anyway.)
An electrical engineer with two master’s degrees – an MBA and an MS in operations research – Dang was community advisor to the Montgomery County Executive and the Maryland Attorney General. He’s currently a compliance analyst at a Fortune 500 company. The MVMA web site identifies the company has Lockheed Martin.
The district Dang is running on is 50% white, 17% black, 12% Hispanic, and 11% Asian. It lies in Montgomery County and includes Aspen Hill and such other places as Four Corners and Gaithersburg.
Dang is currently one of four people who have put their names in the for two open seats in the district, all on the Democratic side. More may sign up. The primary is not until September 14.
Vietnamese love republicans? I don’t think so. Numbers are changing, Vietnamese are switching to the democratic party by the droves. I have family working inside the voters registration office and they say that the Vietnamese are the last asian group to switch to the Democratic party and it has been happening so sorry republicans, you are losing an important voting bloc and soon your party will only consist of old white racists.
I can understand the old white racists, I just had problem with the viet republican van tran thugs on this blog spewing racist comment on every other minority ethnic group.
They even called the democrat party communists, I guess they ran out of people on the viet group to accuse.
Dem Voter,
The numbers do not support your argument because Vietnamese people are conservative, pro life, and believe in a higher being, unlike many Democrats, who are hedonistic and loose.
Reality does not support you Dem. This is not an argument. It is a fact right now.
Bo May,
Do all Democrats think like you. I feel vey sorry for you. Why so much hate?
Gop:
Wrong on both counts. I am a republican and I do not hate anyone, I just pity the viet republican thugs on this blog, they are the one who give republican bad name.
Did I answer your question?
GOP Voter,
You have to unserstand that Bo Mayth penis head is a Republican fraud. He is a Republican in name only, but his thinking has been Democratic and socialistic.
Bo May called other Republican elected officials thugs, but they kept winning big vote and getting re elected every time. That makes Bo May a miserable loser. That’s why he is such a miserable person. I would not be surprised that Bo May is a dog.
Kimmy and Da Thug think of themselves as republicans, conservative, hard-core anti commie activists, but…they are thinking, talking, doing exact the same way as a communist back in Nam.
There is no different between them. Same vile language, same low class manner….Just read what they posted above and you know what I mean.
Over there the party will call you anti-revolutionary, working for the CIA, if you speak against them.
Over here they call you anti-viet, white ass-kisser, working for some Mexican broad if you speak against their ‘proud leader’ van tran.
‘You can take them out of Da commie but you can’t take da commies out of them’
Bo May,
Calling you out for what you are: a vile and despicable person wading in a cesspool of self hate and brownosing. You are a bad excuse for a productive human being.
Don’t thank me. You have your parents to thank for. I know. Truth hurts. Just calling it for what it is.
Sorry Gop Voter but my aunt works in the asian pacific islander council of orange county and they see numbers rising for the Vietnamese community, who are the last asian community to turn democratic. So you can deny it all you want but you are losing and the old republicans of the past are dying, they are in their 70′s and 80′s. Conservatives are ignorant and uneducated so as the young vietnamese grow older and get educated, they see the light and the intellectual progressive thinking is the way to go. Open minded and caring for others unlike conservatives who are just filled hatred and ignorance.
Old Viets are republican because the name “cong hoa” reminds them of their old country and they are hardline anti communists. But their days are numbered, it is done. When they have their little protests out on Bolsa, only 50 people show up. In the 90′s, thousands would show up. But now people are interested not in fighting but in healing and helping others. Before were no Vietnamese democratic candidates, now half of them are. Its called progress and change. Ever heard of that? Its what this country is all about. So go cry about losing your fellow Viets to the “commie” side or whatever you accuse everyone who thinks differently from you. You call people all these names but it doesn’t work, its a shameful tactic.
Another Viet Democrat bit the dust last night in the Maryland Primary. The Viets are mostly Reps. It’s not even funny.