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Category Archives: elections
Jury hung in Tan Nguyen’s case
The jury deadlocked in the trial of former Congressional candidate Tan Nguyen, and the judge declared a mistrial, reports the OC Register’s Martin Wisckol here. Nguyen is accused of lying to investigators and getting a campaign worker to take the blame … Continue reading
Posted in crime, elections, political
Tagged election 2010, Tan Nguyen, Van Thai Tran, Van Tran, Viet accused
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Tony Lam returns to politics
The first Viet ever elected to political office in the U.S. is jumping back into the fray, running for the local sanitary board. When Tony Lam won his seat on the Westminster City Council in 1992, he was the first … Continue reading
Four Viets in Westminster elections
One candidate for mayor plus three for city council, add up to a rather sedate slate of Vietnamese-American candidates running for public office in the city of Westminster. The excitement that would have come with the mayoral race never materialized. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Quach, Bruce Tran, Khoa Do, Margie Rice, Tri Ta, Westminster
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Van Tran says Prop 8 judge “openly gay”
In a paragraph written in Vietnamese but not present in his English-language press release, Assemblyman Van Tran accuses the judge in the Proposition 8 case – a Republican appointee - of being an openly gay man who made his ruling because … Continue reading
San Jose Viet candidate fined $500
The San Jose Elections Commission on Wednesday night unanimously agreed to impose a $500 fine against City Council candidate Minh Duong for two violations of city campaign disclosure laws, reports the San Jose Mercury News here. The fine is for … Continue reading
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Joseph Anh Cao apologizes for misusing archbishop’s words
A quote from a local archbishop printed prominently on U.S. Rep. Anh Joseph Cao‘s fundraising letter, strongly but falsely implying that the archbishop and the local church have endorsed him for re-election, forced the lawmaker to apologize, reports the Times-Picayune … Continue reading
Viet running for Maryland legislature
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 … Continue reading
