This endorsement just came in from former Costa Mesa Mayor Sandy Genis, a Republican, environmentalist, and land-use planner who blogs here occasionally as “La Femme Wonkita.”
As a long-time Republican and Costa Mesa resident, I might be expected to make an obvious choice in casting my vote for the 68th Assembly District. Wouldn’t I want a GOP candidate from my home town representing me? Sure, if I truly believed that candidate was interested in representing me and the other residents of our district, but in this case our district would be better represented by Democrat Phu Nguyen.
Phu Nguyen is a moderate who will work with all segments in the community, reaching across party lines for the good of us all. Phu’s family settled in Orange County in 1982, after fleeing Vietnam in a small boat. He worked hard and received his bachelor’s degree at California State University, Fullerton. A bright guy, he also earned a master’s degree from the University of San Diego.
Phu is the vice president of Saigon Central Post, Inc. (SCPI), which provides jobs for scores of employees in 15 states. He understands the need to make a payroll and to be responsive to customers. He’ll bring this business experience to the State Legislature.
Phu Nguyen believes in giving back to the community. He’s active in Franciscan charities and founded a group that provides micro-loans to poverty-stricken women in Vietnam to enable them to establish their own businesses and become self sufficient, providing a hand up not a hand out.
Phu Nguyen is definitely a good candidate, but still, why not vote for Mansoor?
When 68th District GOP candidate Allan Mansoor was first elected to the Costa Mesa City Council in 2002, he promised to put Costa Mesa residents first and preserve our neighborhoods. For a year or two, Allan was fairly faithful to that promise but became a big disappointment as time went on. He was increasingly inaccessible to residents and treated members of the public as if they were inmates at the County jail where he’d worked so many years.
Worse, starting around 2006-2007 Mansoor’s voting pattern seemed to move markedly toward serving the bully boys of the Gulfstream GOP over the people of Costa Mesa, most recently, culminating in the sad saga of the Orange County Fairgrounds. The ladies on the council were ready to go to the mat to save our fairgrounds, while the “men” just wussed out in the fight for our community. We don’t need someone representing us in Sacramento who’s afraid to offend some political overlord.
Vote for Phu Nguyen.
Phu Nguyen and family, pictured with Democrats, Republicans, and independents,
Asians, whites, Latinos and blacks, celebrating his primary win.
See if you can find Vern Nelson, Ken Arnold, Dr. Kim-Oanh Nguyen, Jim Benson, Frank Rodriguez, Trung Ta?
Well, now it is official, Sandra Genis has gone off the deep end. Still unresolved are the very serious allegations that Phu Nguyen committed perjury and election fraud in order to run for the assembly.
Oh that old story? LOL… Short answer no.
Vern, it may be a whole month old, but the allegations are unresolved. What will you say if he is eventually found guilty?
I know for a fact that he lived in Westminster since last year, and he can prove it in numerous ways. The campaign has decided to ignore that issue as it’s a distraction. But as I’ve mentioned here before, the reason neighbors in Santa Ana (near his fancy house he used to live in) frequently saw him and his wife and kid over there is … because his parents are living in that house, which he owns. So nobody’s really worried about him being found guilty, that’s just a “shiny object” that Mansoor’s people threw.
If Allan Mansoor was smart, he would have never brought Jim Righeimer into Costa Mesa. Righeimer has tainted Allan Mansoor and a lot of other Republicans because of his incompetence. Hopefully Phu will win and Righeimer will lose the council race (which is something Righeimer usually does anyway).
He’s not smart and I don’t think it was his idea to bring Riggy to CM, and nothing else was his idea either.
It was partly Riggy’s restless ambition, and his making good with Dana Rohrabacher and Scott Baugh that got him in the catbird seat in CM. Allan just had to play along.
Allan has been obedient since 2006. I understand that’s when he wanted to run against corrupt Sheriff Carona, but was told, “No, just sit tight and we’ll make you the next assemblyman.” That’s exactly when he started doing everything the OC GOP insiders ordered him to do. Which included picking carpetbagging Riggy over an old friend for Planning Commissioner.
this hag may call herself a republican but she went against every major republican in her testimony to our city council concerning the Poseidon desal plant. Our council voted 6-1 that she was wrong and public testimony was about that same ratio. But this blog continues to put her forth as some brainy know it all who is always right. now she is playing the guys vs. the gals. I trust elected congressmen and senators who study desal plants more than a “former” mayor of Costa Mesa which is way way down the list of elected officials. She is just another gadfly who loves to see herself on tv.
The Huntington Beach City Council, with the glaring exception of Jill Hardy, is corrupt and retarded. They PARTY with the Poseidon crooks. All good Republicans should be against such a wasteful boondoggle of taxpayer funds as Poseidon.
(And that’s totally APART from whether or not you care about the environmental impact – on the ocean, the neighborhood, and on enabling further unlimited development of the open spaces of the OC.)
More and more I am looking at that picture, I cant help it comrade Vern but, your appearance in that picture look unofficial, like these ghost images which once a while pup up without possibility of any explanation.
uh, Poseidon does not cost taxpayers anything Vern. I care about the environment and it is more polluting to pump the water from the Colorado River than the energy used at Poseidon. Also, I care about the fish but the water Poseidon is using has first been pumped in by the electric plant and is on its way back to the ocean. Poseidon is intercepting it and providing needed water for other types of living creatures such as yourself. And of course, the hag is right and so is Kelly in your opinion. However the majority of us in HB actually voted the other way because we forgot to ask the hag.
Phu is a failure. Good to see a ego manic startup from nowhere completely fail like he did. Not. Even. Close. Meg Whitman feels bad for Phu for failng so hard.