I reported earlier this week the astounding news that Robin Marcario had defeated two well-funded Vietnamese machine candidates, Trung Nguyen and Andrew Do. But the news for Orange County’s Vietnamese candidates gets worse. All of them lost on Nov. 4, except Assemblyman Van Tran, who barely defeated an unknown, underfunded Democratic opponent, Ken Arnold, and over in the Garden Grove School Board race, incumbent Kim Oanh Nguyen Lam barely won.
Over in Westminster, Van Tran acolyte Truong Diep, who was heavily funded, got trashed, coming in well behind Frank Fry and Peggy Loomer, in the City Council race. And fellow Trannie John Nguyen came in dead last in the Garden Grove School Board race.
In Garden Grove, not only did Do and Nguyen tank, so did Tram Linh Ho, but she did come out ahead of Nguyen, who has now lost more political races than any of the other Trannies.
And Santa Ana Library Commissioner Nam Pham got blown out in the Rancho Santiago Communty College District Board of Education race. He finished dead last, with less than ten percent of the vote, according to Bolsavik.com.
What does all this mean for Republican O.C. Supervisor Janet Nguyen, who has no friends left in the O.C. blogosphere? She will be up for reelection in four years – and this time she will face a well-funded, popular Latino Democrat. If this new trend holds, she will be looking for a new job in a few years.
All of them lost on Nov. 4, except Assemblyman Van Tran, who barely defeated an unknown, underfunded Democratic opponent, Ken Arnold
LOL!!
Van’s margin in his Assembly seat was the same as Obama’s in the presidential race. So are you saying Obama “barely won”?
Matt –
Maybe you missed the part where Art says, ‘an unknown, underfunded Democratic opponent.‘ Does that sound like an accurate description of Barack Obama to you? Besides, you’re conveniently ignoring the electoral college. That was a landslide.
These are direct races where incumbents usually win 2-1, so Arnold is actually doing quite well against the Tran Daddy. You should report things more truthfully.
SMS
SMS:
I didn’t miss a thing. The margin isn’t any narrower because Van’s opponent was underfunded. Math is math.
It’s fair to say Arnold did better than expected considering Van’s advantages in incumbency and fundraising. But winning by seven points is not “barely winning.” Typically, Art is compelled to stretch the truth, when the facts will suffice.
Matt/Jubal,
I suspect that Paul Lucas had more money in his campaign than Ken Arnold did. The Democrats no doubt are kicking themselves today. They could have taken out Tran. They blew it. This seat will go Democrat in two years – in fact I hope Mark Rosen runs for it. But Katrina Foley could easily win it as well.
What are you going to do when the O.C. goes blue Matt? Will you change your blog name back to “OC Blog?” What does it feel like to see so many GOP losses all over this nation? This must be a depressing time for you and your red-faced amigos. Oh well, at least you can celebrate the hate-fest that was Prop. 8.
AND Kim Oanh Nguyen-Lam (whose name is a blast to repeat once you learn it) is a rare PROGRESSIVE DEM Viet! Only one reactionary Viet won, you could have said, and we are very proud of how well Ken did against “The Oil Spill Known As Van Thai Tran.”
I should have said Kim is an “until-now” rare Progressive Dem Viet. Like Linh Ho, they are starting to pop up.