Viets took a beating at the polls
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Viet candidates lost left and right, Rep and Dem, Southern and Northern California. It is a demonstration of Viet candidates’ narrow lack of broader appeal that when non-Viet voters turn out in record numbers, they were not voting for the Viet candidates.
All in all, every single Viet candidate is heading to defeat,
with the exception of the incumbents running for re-election: in Texas, Hubert Vo in the Texas House of Representatives; in San Jose, Lan Nguyen on the East Side Union High School District; and here locally, Van Tran in the California Assembly and Kim-Oanh Nguyen-Lam (pictured) on the Garden Grove School Board.
And even those two didn’t fare so well. Van’s winning margin at 53-47 was the smallest among all O.C. Assembly members, and Nguyen-Lam ended third in a race for three seats.
Truong Diep, a Van Tran staffer, was expected to win a seat on the Westminster City Council — but didn’t. He ended behind not just winners Frank Fry (incumbent) and Penny Loomer, but also behind Alin Hamade who like Diep is an appointee to the city’s Traffic Commission.
In the hotly contested race for Garden Garden City Council, with two seats available, all three Viet candidates lost, though with respectable results.
OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s Chief of Staff Andrew Do finished third, 1200 votes behind Robin Marcario the second-place winner. New law school grad and first-time candidate Linh Ho (pictured, with Marcario at the OCAPICA candidate forum) finished behind Do, but ahead of Garden Grove School Board member Trung Nguyen, who by now has lost 4 of 4 straight races for 4 different offices.



The Endorsement Committee of the OC Republican Party voted unanimously to endorse Trung Nguyen for Garden Grove City Council, reports Red County/OC Blog’s Jubal
OK, here we go, the authoritative list of all Viets running for various positions in Orange County. We’re looking at 14 Viets running for 15 positions. (Read more about some of them
The first candidate has confirmed - though not through any official announcement - that she’s running for Garden Grove City Council. That would be Robin Marcario, the president of the Central Garden Grove Neighborhood Association, and it’s not the first time she’s running.
Perennial candidate Long Pham (seated on the right, with Fr. Thanh Nguyen) is on the quest for another public office, inaugurating his campaign office today in the same building on Bolsa in Little Saigon that houses Dina Nguyen’s campaign.
You can tell the man is not afraid of losing.
The flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is red with a yellow star.
Oh, and look who else was there: Trung Nguyen the former supervisorial candidate turned serial litigant, at 4:42.
And the belt? Here’s the belt. It’s on the video at 7:50.