Photos from the Van Tran Christmas Party just came in over the transom. While Van did not have a great year, Van barely beat Ken Arnold, Dina got beat bad, Trung Nguyen lost to Andrew Do, no McCain administration job, and Loretta Sanchez dominates the 47th Congressional District that Van covets so badly. However, there are some new guests this year. One of the new inductees to club Trannie is Paul Lucas. However Van made Paul sit at the kids table. Trannie allies Steve Jones and Bruce Broadwater came to eat as well.
Trannie Paul Lucas at Van’s Kids Table
On top From left to right Councilman Steve Jones, numbers guru and mouthpiece Lan Nguyen, City Councilwoman and Trannie recruiter Dina Nguyen, and Papa Van Tran.
On bottom Westminster City Councilman Trung Diep, former Garden Grove school board member Trung Nguyen, Westminster City Coucilman Tri Ta, and Garden Grove Councilman Bruce Broadwater.
Misha,
Youre consistent bashing of Paul lucas, Especially on Christmas night is becoming extremely tiresome and cheap. You need to do some thorough soul searching. I find you even more deplorable today than I did when you tried to get the GGDBD to endorse your candidate Robnin Marcario and asked Charles Mitchel to step out of the race.
I will let you know that you are not, in my opinion a welcome participant in further GGDBA meetings or events. I wish to never see you again.
Hey M…I mean Shadow,
What is your obsession with Paul Lucas?
I agree with Mr. Silva’s assessment, this is quite tiresome and cheap.
I wish somebody would explain to me why Paul creating a flame war between Janet and Van, two Reeps, is a bad thing.
I am beginning to think that some of these “good” Dems are nothing more than closeted Jannies.
Hi Mike Silva,
Please contact me at mike@tardifsheetmetal.com
Van Tran beat Ken Arnold by 11,000 votes
Carlos Bustamante beat Art Pedroza by 11,000 votes
Land slide and big victory for both winners.
Mike Silva, thanks for pointing that out. It has gotten way old. I am curious what do those acronyms mean? I’m learning about GG politics but have no idea what the GGDBD or GGDBA are. Please let us know what this insider lingo means.
While you’re at it, what about the old white bean farmers that founded GG and are probably still influential behind the scenes? Isn’t there an older layer of political intrigue that goes beyond the emerging Viet influence? Is Broadwater the poster boy for the old white bean farmers?
I don’t see much conflict between the anglo-viet-hispanic influences in the GG political parties and wonder if I missed all the conflict or has it always been this encouraging for new candidates?
Sean,
No one has ever been able to articulate how a flame war between janet and van has hurt Democratic Candidates or the DPOC. I will offer a 20 dollar reward to anyone who could.
#6 Anon,
GGDBA is an acronym for garden Grove Downtown Business Administration. GGDBD is Garden Grove Downtown Business District. It is the group that was leading the fight against the Steve Sheldon Group over the last remaining parking lot behind the west side of Main Street.
Sorry for the typo,
GGDBA stands for garden Grove Downtonwn Business Association not Administration. I apologize for the typo. Art can you fix that and delete the correction?
Paul
Paul,
IT is you who refuses to face the truth. You clearly were trying to help Van Tran, not start the GOP fighting. You blame everyone else for your faults and refuse to take any responsibility for your own actions.
Paul Lucas is a sorry and sad excuse for a human being and his goal was to strengthen Van Tran so Lou COrrea could be defeated in 2010. Paul has had a vendetta against Correa for years, thinking he is somehow in the thick of the Joe Dunn/Lou Correa conflict. He bragged at a YD meeting how he was going to let Lou Correa have it. Thats what it comes down to.
Paul give it a rest. You are so done. Go back into the snake hole you crawled out of. By the way how is your new friendships with Sean Mill, the Hull-Richters and the Hoffmann’s working out? You realize once they don’t need you anymore they will throw you out like yesterday’s garbage. Sad that you threw away all your friendships over a stupid county commission and a City Council seat.
Thanks Paul, tell me, is the GG business association the bastion of the owb farmers or the integration vehicle for the viet and hispanic business owners? Is that what passes for the Chamber of Commerce in GG?
So many are playing catch-up with the ever changing OC political scene so there is a real interest in not only what is going on but also what has gone on before. Gustavo over at the OC Weekly has done a great job of writing on those subjects as has Art and the bloggers here at the OJB. Thanks for always giving your perspective here and on the local blogs.
To Rov,
Paul Lucas got 39% versus Van. Ken Arnold got 46%. Van has not done well this year. As to the other commentators, I think Paul the Orignial Janny summed it up best. However, Paul’s behavior this year was childish at best and malicious and self-serving at worst.
This Misha person is realy getting to be quite disgusting in her constant pot shotting at Lucas. I can understand her being upset because hercandidate marcario didnt win but that is not Pauls fault.
Misha need to blame melahat and Alicia Berhow for asking her to con Marcario into backing out of the running for the dpoc endorsement process.
Lucas was in the race long before marcario was. Melahat played Misha in getting her to spy for her in her wa on edgardo which required the railroading of hoa van tran.
Melahat caused irreperable damage to the dpoc in the viet community in her quest for revenge on edgardo. Additionally, melahat drained the dpoc dry like a vampire and did not produce any tangible results.
Now that she has spurned Misha because misha no longr\ers serves any purpose, Misha is out trashing melahat under the nom de plume OC Shadow.
How long before a flame war erupts between melahat and misha and misha exposes melahat and berhow for all thier coordination with janet nguyen via Phil Becerra?
How long before misha embarrasses ECCO so badly that they ask her to leave the ecco board? How long beofre Chris Prevatt asks misha to stop blogging on Lib OC because Misha is exposd as the oc shadow and in collusion with Art Pedroza?
Paul Lucas, I know you are a Trannie in a political sense but now I see you have become one full throttle and are commenting as Millie Kim.
Misha,
What is your exact problem with me? if you look atthe IP adresses you will see that I post from my home computer. Millie Kim is not me.
As for your other statements, what exactky can you state that I have done to as you put it “Paul’s behavior this year was childish at best and malicious and self-serving at worst.”
Youve made this kind of comment beofre about Me, Linh Ho, and several others. Whta exactly is your axe that you have to grind?
As to the other anonymous posters, Its hard to take seriouls a commentor who posts under the guise of an anonymous moniker and even harder to lend any credibility to the same.
Art, I got to tell ya, this blogger in your pen is not bringing much credence to your blog.
Anon #11,
I dont know about the GGDBA being bastion of anything. Although they hold high respect and reecognition, the credit they are due is not very well recognized by the city council. In fact, it would seem as if the GGDBA is viewed with great disdain by some council memebrs and city managers. As far as the Hispanic and Viet Business owners, I cant say much about the hispanic business owners because I simply dont know many other than JJ and the owners of Los Sanchez. The Viet Business community is very organized but they tend to mingle amongst thems,eves and dont have much interaction with groups outside of their circles.
The Chamber of Commerce is a very high profil;e and effective group in GG politics which is the case in most cities. Bruce Broadwater is a former president ofthe GG Chamber of Commerce.
There is also a Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and a Korean Chamber of Commerce. Both groups are active in their respective ethnic communities and often participate via sponsorship of major events in the city.
Paul you and everyone knows what you have done. If you don’t feel apologetic about your tactics me calling you on it probably won’t matter. But loyalty to friends and the people who have helped you in the past doesn’t seem to matter to you. You can be bought and you were bought. If you don’t see anything wrong with that then so be it. But I am not alone in my disgust with you.
More non-specific hyperbole. Got anymore fairytales? Your own cabal of jannies cant even gove any specific details. Remonds me of that movie The Village by M Night Shamalan where the people were controlled by the image and story of an imaginary boogey man in the woods.
Paul, who paid you to run for GG council? Nothing personal, but you don’t have the mental acuity to be an elected official. Nor the personality. You do have the looks though. Goofy is in this year. The only reality is by running you will take votes away from somebody. That somebody is gonna most likely be someone from your own ethnicity. So the question remains, who paid you to run for GG council. Hint: it must have been someone from another ethnicity than yours. Of course, with your ego noone really had to pay you…all that was needed was to shmooze you and take advantage of your lack of mental acuity. (examples of which are on your blogs #7 and #9)
Anon # 19,
No one paid me to run. I announced my run for the council long before any of the other candidates had. The rest of your rant makes no sense.