When the smoke cleared, no serious opponents to Supervisor Janet Nguyen emerged, as the filing deadline closed yesterday. Instead, she will face freshman Garden Grove Councilwoman Dina Nguyen, a Trannie Republican who screwed up her filing and had to refile on Friday; and Hoa Van Tran, a Trannie Democrat who was initially recruited to split the Democratic vote so that Joe Dunn could prevail. But Dunn chickened out.
The O.C. Register put it this way, “Supervisor Janet Nguyen will face yet another candidate named Nguyen as the race for her central district seat will offer an all-Vietnamese-American ticket for the first time in the county’s history.”
“B.K.” Trung Nguyen, the Trannie Supervisor Nguyen defeated last time, ran for the hills, saying he would instead run for the Garden Grove City Council, and Santa Ana Councilman David Benavides remembered he isn’t ready for prime time. And, as we posted yesterday, Paul Lucas opted to stay out and run for the Garden Grove City Council instead.
It is amazing that the Democrats are SO WEAK in central Orange County, which is supposed to be their stronghold in Orange County. You can spread the blame around for this development. O.C. Democratic Party Chairman Frank Barbaro deserves most of it, but so does State Senator Lou Correa, who was the Supervisor until he bolted for the State Senate. I think Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido is also at fault. He has so corrupted his fellow Council Members that none of them are viable for any other offices. And lastly, you can blame the wealthy white lawyers who fund and run the O.C. Democratic Party. They have wasted their time in the last few years on their peers, Tom Umberg and Joe Dunn. Now the cupboard is bare.
I am not the only one wondering what has happened to the suddenly lame O.C. Democratic Party, “The highest density district and we couldn’t find one candidate?” Lucas said, reflecting the sentiment of many Democrats.
At the end of the day, what this all means is that we can now congratulate Supervisor Janet Nguyen on her pending reelection. I am not going to bother waiting for the election. This race is over. It effectively ended on Friday.
You can also blame Santa Ana latino elected officials. No sooner are they elected to City Council when they start talking about being the next Mayor or the next 69th Assembly person.
Take for instance the Clownster. How many times has she run for Assembly or OC Supervisor and LOST. Measure D was all about the CLownster not being able to let go and realizing her time is up in politics. After her third term is completed, she will become another “what’s her face” council member that no one can remember.
You are right on when you say the Democrats are weak in the OC. News flash to Barbaro & others, stop supporting guys like Scumberg and Done. Have you seen the color of your people in the OC? You should have sucked in your pride and gone ahead and supported the other candidates. You could have kept your supervisor seat.
Where is Mr. Schroeder in all this?
Art, I want to know if you wanted a strong Democratic candidate to challenge this chinese girl Janet Nguyen? or you don’t want ANYONE to run against your this chinese doll?
#3,
Supervisor Nguyen is NOT Chinese. And no, I did not want any opponent to her. She is doing a fine job. Why get rid of her?
The fact that the Democrats could not field a good candidate is their problem. It is indicative of what a poor job they have done in the Latino and Vietnamese communities in central Orange County.
Get rid of all chinese candidate people and we need to find good latino american supervisor to represent us. I believe the Tans and Janet Nguyens are all same bad people.
“we need to find good latino american supervisor to represent us.”……. latino american?
That is oxymoron.
If you are American you do not need to put any qualifier before it.