Category Archives: elections

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

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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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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

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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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Viet voters prefer Boxer for Senate: Poll

OK, so that headline should have an asterisk. Because that’s how the survey results were qualified. The Field Poll in a recently released survey, here, says that incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (pictured, left) has a 3-point overall lead over GOP challenger … 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

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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

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‘Vietnamese bounce’ in primaries lifts candidates

As has been shown in several elections in a row, a disproportionate portion of Vietnamese-American voters voting for Vietnamese-American candidates cast their votes by mail, and do it near the last day. This phenomenon has many times resulted in Viet … Continue reading

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