The Democratic Party of Orange County dropped the ball last night. They had a chance to remove their endorsement from troubled Supervisorial candidate Hoa Van Tran, who is in hot water now that two of his campaign staffers have been arrested for attempted murder. Instead, DPOC Chairman Frank Barbaro got his way. Hoa kept the DPOC endorsement.
The other issue which come up at last night’s DPOC meeting was the fact that Van Tran filed his campaign finance statements on time. They were due yesterday and he did turn them in, at the end of the day. However, the fact is he stalled for weeks, prodding two local blogs to start a countdown to see when he would file. This behavior by Van Tran is troubling to say the least.
As one would expect, Van Tran’s most loyal supporter, Sean Mill, had this to say about the meeting over at the Liberal OC, “Many of the young men and women that have volunteered their time to Hoa’s campaign showed up at tonights meeting in order to show their support for Hoa. In what was perhaps the strangest and most bizarre action of the night, Benny Diaz accused Hoa’s campaign of bringing these folks to the meeting as a means of intimidation.”
Take a look at the picture above and consider what Diaz had to say. The picture appeared over at Red County, which had a lot to say about the gang bangers working for Van Tran.
The BIGGEST problem in the First Supervisorial District is the out of control gangs. And Van Tran has tried to solve the problem by hiring them. What a joke! It figures that Mill would support him. He has also supported convicted felon Ted Moreno, ousted SAUSD trustee Nativo Lopez (who was accused of crooked campaigning as well), etc. If the candidate sucks and is involved in criminal actions you can expect Mill to jump on board.
The DPOC also failed to reprimand Paul Lucas last night, who eagerly got in bed with the same Trannies who are behind Van Tran’s campaign. Nice. What a screwed up party!
… inching back towards DTS here.
SMS
Oh dear, I don’t understand why anyone would want to put people like that working up front on their campaigns. Homie looks like he’s been in the joint.
I’m all for bringing people from all walks of life into politics, but I question the strategic wisdom of taking pictures like that of cholitos flashing their tattoos with campaign signs in the background.
Oh yeah, and how did Paul Lucas escape fate again? I’m going to start calling him Houdini!
SMS
It was a shameful night for the DPOC. For the first time in my life, I can say I am embarassed to be a Democrat from Orange County. Art I will send you my account of the meeting if you are willing to post it. The truth must be told how our committee caved into gang members and the Van Tran camp.
We should just invite Mike Schroeder to come in and takeover as chair of our party. You up for the job Mike, many of our central committee members just bent over to your will.
Claudio,
I would be honored to put your post up my friend. Please do send it to me at your convenience.
Art-
I can give him ‘contributor’ status if you like. It’s like a temporary author.
SMS
No big surprise to see Sal rolling large with his criminal possee. He’s often seen with Alex Vega and Mike Gonzalez, both thiefs and criminals.
Why would you call Mike Gonzalez and Alex “Swapmeet” Vega thieves and criminals. What have they ever done but support Pulido
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