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Perfect Christmas gift…
A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog-
- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- OC Board of Education Trustee Hammond engages in full throttle Constitutional gibberish
- Is there more to Wu’s attack on 74th A.D. candidate Onofre than meets the eye?
- Rep. Sanchez lauds Republicans for working with Democrats on budget proposal
- Attention LGBT Community – You have nothing to fear over the AB1266 Referendum
- Ronald Reagan would be smiling
- OCTA: Power Politics
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
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- The Liberal OC
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little saigon Archive
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Tet Parade Post-mortem: What next, and grading the Politicians’ Performances.
Posted on February 26, 2013 | 42 Comments. As promised, I’ve got a lot to say in retrospect about the Tet Parade of two weeks ago which jumped the shark by excluding gays, and how the various... -
Will God Rain on this year’s Anti-Gay Tet Parade?
Posted on February 8, 2013 | 81 Comments. The beautiful and cute folks of the Viet LGBT Alliance really didn’t want me to use that title – a cheerful and generous lot, they want the parade to... -
Breaking – Margie Rice Returns to Westminster Council, Tri Ta first elected Viet Mayor in US!
Posted on December 13, 2012 | 10 CommentsIt’s that time of transitions, when newly elected members of legislative bodies are sworn in. Some transitional meetings are organized so they are just ceremonial, with outgoing members... -
Who Is Trying to Disqualify Vietnamese Voters’ Ballots in AD-72? [updated]
Posted on June 12, 2012 | 25 CommentsUpdate: I’m going to leave the post up mostly as is, but I’m going to repost a comment from below that explains my current state of understanding. You may want... -
So Long, Pham! Dovinh is Last Vietnamese Standing in AD-72. (Or IS he?)
Posted on February 17, 2012 | 30 Comments. . . The most dangerous job in politics: Vietnamese Republican candidate in AD-72. Back when we redistricting geeks were attending Commission hearings last year, what would become AD-72 was supposed... -
“TOO BAD, VIETS!” says the OC GOP, “It’s NOT YOUR TIME in the 72nd AD!”
Posted on February 9, 2012 | 37 CommentsAs far as I can tell, Pedroza’s OCPolitics Blog broke the news for the English-speaking world: Republican Assembly candidate for the 72nd District, Westminster Councilman Tyler Diep, has dropped out... -
Brilliant, just brilliant: THREE Viets line up against Matt Harper in the 72nd AD.
Posted on November 8, 2011 | 16 Comments. . . You’d think from the look of things, wouldn’t you, that Orange County’s Vietnamese-American community, selflessly consenting to sabotage themselves in the one place where redistricting seemed to... -
Should Fountain Valley Go?
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 4 Comments. . . With the budget pressures on government these days there is increasing talk about possibly consolidating some cities, thereby reducing their numbers and the number of high priced... -
Late August chismes: the new Districts and next year’s Elections!
Posted on August 24, 2011 | 39 Comments. . . Hark! how the sultry pre-September days are enlivened by exaltation of birdsong. All the larger species are chirping the jolly tune about the Victim Party (the California... -
…and lastly, our new State Senate Districts.
Posted on August 3, 2011 | 19 Comments. . . Orange County’s four newly redrawn State Senate districts are not quite as exciting as our new Congressional Districts (with one probable Dem pickup and a Repug cage-match)... -
FDIC forces sale of Little Saigon’s First Vietnamese American Bank
Posted on November 6, 2010 | 1 CommentFirst Vietnamese American Bank (FVAB) has been shut down by state regulators, five years after opening in Orange County’s Little Saigon neighborhood as the only U.S. community lender with a... -
Janet Nguyen feeds Van Tran!
Posted on July 13, 2010 | 2 CommentsPicture Courtesy of the Bolsavik Blog Our friends at the Bolsavik Blog are reporting that “On Sunday, when half of Little Saigon was watching the final game of World Cup... -
Political analyst Allan Hoffenblum says Phu Nguyen can beat Allan Mansoor!
Posted on July 6, 2010 | No CommentsAllan Mansoor was all alone, and uncomfortable, at this year’s Tet Parade, in Little Saigon I wrote a post back in February wondering if OC Board of Education Trustee Long... -
Will Vietnamese voters determine the next Mayor of Santa Ana?
Posted on July 3, 2010 | 8 CommentsElection, has gathered up essentially the same coalition that backed Councilwoman Michele Martinez when she took on Pulido, in 2008. We know how that worked out. So the question is,...
