When Paul Lucas said that Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen is the new Van Tran, he wasn’t kidding. Janet’s husband, Tom Bonikowski, was appointed on March 10, to the Garden Grove Planning Commission. I believe he may have been nominated by Janet’s Chief of Staff, Andrew Do, who was elected to the Garden Grove City Council last year.
You cannot discern this from the agenda for that Council meeting. Click here to watch the video related to that meeting.
Bonikowski was in the news recently when Janet was the key vote against proposed County restaurant health ratings. We broke the news that he is part owner of a Lee’s Sandwiches restaurant in Stanton that has received major County health violations. His partner in that venture is none other than Andrew Do.
No wonder Janet worked so hard to get Do elected last year…
Man,!?
I wonder how Claudio would feel about this. he would haro and haraungue alld ay long about how Van Tran got his allies appointments and positions.
I wonder how Claudio feels about his buddy Phil Becerra who is the DPOC spokesman for janet and the jannies?
check out Costa Mesa planning commission appointments/campaign donations/business ties
Does any one else notice that here isnt even a peep about this on the Liberal OC? In fact i cant find a discouraging word about janet on that blog anywhere. I see plenty of criticism for the other supes who have doen the same thing janet has but not even a mention of janets name in any of them.
Whats screwed up local politics for GG and Westminster and our districts is the unique situation where Van Tran and Janet Nguyen have turned this into an ethnic battle. Van openly pushes Vietnamese to vote along ethnic lines. (in the Viet papers) The result is they are getting on these councils and with very little qualifications then seeking higher office. (using the same game plan-get all the Viet votes) Of course they want anglos and hispanics to look at the merit of candidates before voting. As it really should be, mostly. I do accept the representation factor for local politics. You would think, at least, once in office Janet Nguyen, Van Tran and now Andrew Do would try to avoid this nepotism and cronyism. Of course we know Janet has no morals…she put all that money (thousands) into a campaign for her chief of staff…KNOWING he was puting on a residency sham, one of which I would not be surprised if she set up.
Was Mr. Bonikowski appointed to this position to give Poland a voice in Garden Grove city politics? Was Mr. Bonikowski ever associated with the Communist Party of Poland?
At least she have master degree compare to the other Mexican guy ?