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Actually, it’s gotten so it’s not even funny any more.

Former OC supervisorial candidate Hoa Van Tran’s financial disclosures sill have not figured out that there’s a problem with all the money and noncash contributions they get from VHN-TV.

Let’s go through this one slowly.

VHN-TV is also known as Viet Hai Ngoai TV. (”Hai Ngoai” means abroad, and there’s also a “Viet Abroad TV” but that’s not the same one.)

In Hoa’s reports for the period March 18 to May 17 — both the original and the amended — VHN is shown to have contributed a total of $2,600:

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Remember how the Bolsavik said (here) that the candidates in the June elections still had to file another financial disclosure statement even though the election’s over?

August 1 was the time to file. The reports by Janet Nguyen and Dina Nguyen are now online. Here and here. Hoa Van Tran’s isn’t yet. The latest filing available for Hoa is a late contribution report dated June 2, 2008. <The Bolsavik’s mistake — the limit is $1,600 not $1,500.>

Dina showed no new contributions and some outstanding balance. Janet raked in another $10k after the last filing. The advantage of winning, probably.

But there’s something funny (funny funny, not funny hah-hah) in Janet’s filing.

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OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen last night sent out an email thanking the voters of the First District for putting her back in office. She received 55.6% of the votes, more than twice what second-place finisher Dina Nguyen got.

The race had deteriorated in its final few weeks. Third-place vote-getter Hoa Van Tran was the first to accuse Janet Nguyen of being a communist. Dina Dina and other Trannies such as Garden Grove School Board members Lan Quoc Nguyen and Trung Nguyen immediately jumped in the red-baiting, thus not giving the Bolsavik a lot of confidence about how the children of Garden Grove are being educated. Assemblyman Van Thai Tran himself joined the fray, earning a counter-attack by Janet that Van and his wife are commies too.

After the election, Van called Janet to congratulate her, but to date neither of Janet’s rivals has contacted her, and Janet hasn’t contacted them.

On late night radio, Van’s underlings continued attacking Janet. Janet’s proxies attacked back. Then the minions stated attacking each other. Which is totally funny for anyone who’s into this kind of crap, or just plain crappy for others.

The thank-you letter, written in Vietnamese, doesn’t neglect to kick one in her opponents’ shin. Quote:
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This young man, whose name the Bolsavik failed to get (sorry!), showed off his athletic skills while watching the returns at Hoa Van Tran’s campaign office on election night.

His enthusiasm does not reflect the low number Hoa was getting. The candidate was garnering around 15% of the votes and wasn’t even in the office when the Bolsavik got there, and neither was his boss Phu Do Nguyen. His campaign consultants Edgardo Reynoso and Kimchi Nguyen were there, though, as were a lot of supporters milling about on the balcony. Paul Lucas, a former Democratic candidate for Assembly and now a controversial figure among Democrats, was heading out just as the Bolsavik pulled in to the parking lot.

Things were a little livelier at Dina Nguyen’s (pictured right) campaign headquarters, across the street from the Asian Garden Mall (”Phuoc Loc Tho”).

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Last week, as the Bolsavik pulled into the parking lot at the Democratic Party of OC’s special meeting, he thought that the Democrats invited this trouble upon themselves for not planning for a better candidate, putting all the eggs in the Joe Dunn basket and then finding themselves going to hell in a handbasket.

Also around this time last week, commenter Littlesaigonese wrote about the choices for First District Supervisor, referring to Hoa Tran, Dina Nguyen and Janet Nguyen, respectively:

“A candidate that can’t speak for himself , another that has no income (and no income tax paid) and the incumbent is pretty much a lost cause and they all want to do the talking for us. Hah.”

Well, you know how they say if you don’t vote you can’t complain?

Actually, the Bolsavik doesn’t buy that. What holy book says if you don’t vote you can’t complain? What statistics prove that voting is better at effecting changes, than complaining? Just who died and made only the voters king?

But anyway, if you do buy into that logic, then it’s only a minor extension to also conclude that if you don’t run you can’t complain either.

The red-baiting competition reached shrill level over the last couple of days, with Trannies Lan Quoc Nguyen and Trung Nguyen battling Janet’s chief of staff Andrew Do over the radio air waves, and all sorts of other surrogagtes chiming in.

And then in all the cacophony, the Bolsavik remembers something.

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The OC Weekly just published a story by Scott Moxley explaining exactly why the boss of the boss, the power behind Van Tran’s power, is so silent in the Dina vs. Janet race.

Mike Schroeder (pictured) is a high-priced, high-octane lawyer and former state chairman of the GOP. He took Van Thai Tran under his wing, guided him up the Republican ladder. When it came time for Trannie Trung Nguyen to run for supervisor, Schroeder was the force that drove his lawsuits-upon-lawsuits against Janet Nguyen after Trung lost the last election.

And then, all of a sudden, Schroeder went silent and stopped attacking Janet.

What gives?

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… and the Janet camp capitalized.

OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s campaign sent out an email in counter-attack to all the red-baiting done by the Dina Nguyen side including its high priest Van Thai Tran.

Maybe the Bolsavik will review the email later, but for now what caught the Bolsavik’s eyes from Janet’s own red-baiting, was Dina honestly saying the way she truly felt about the anti-communist demonstrators.

In public.

On the record.

On radio.

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Hoa Van Tran (above, with staffer Kimchi Nguyen to his left) got off scot-free tonight when the Democratic Part of Orange County’s central committee voted not to rescind its endorsement of the only Democratic supervisorial candidate.

The meeting took place at a union hall in Orange, and who sat in the corner of the parking lot checking people who enter it, but two policemen in a squad car. No doubt related to the temporary restraining order against Hoa’s campaign manager Edgardo Reynoso for trying to run a woman off the freeway.

The decision was arrived at after three votes on three alternative motions. The first motion sought to take the whole thing off agenda, and was voted down after a tie-break by the chair Frank Barbaro.

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Assemblyman Van Thai Tran jumped head first into the Dina Nguyen campaign’s red baiting, leading the accusation that incumbent OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen is a sympathizer for mingling with alleged communists.

Van Tran spoke in a radio spot broadcast on Little Saigon Radio several times each day starting last week, challenging Janet Nguyen to answer the charges that she’s a commie.

The source for Van Tran’s accusation is a two-page spread published in Nguoi Viet. The piece was signed by three leaders of the Coalition Against Resolution 36, but very few people believe the three actually wrote it.

On the day Nguoi Viet published the red-baiting piece, Lan Quoc Nguyen (pictured above, left), a member of the Garden Grove School Board and close ally of Van Tran’s, also went on Little Saigon Radio and challenged two of Janet Nguyen’s associates to answer the charges: Her chief of staff Andrew Do and her policy advisor Nick Lecong. (They apparently did but Nguoi Viet wouldn’t print it.)

Apparently, in the Van Tran hierarchy, Lan is just allowed to challenge the underlings; only Van Tran is permitted to hit Janet.

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