McCain Announces Local Viet Endorsements
Posted by: Jubal | 01/31/2008 11:43 AM
This came over the transom this morning from the McCain for President campaign:
INFLUENTIAL VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN LEADERS ENDORSE JOHN MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT
ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that four influential leaders from California's Vietnamese-American community have endorsed John McCain for president.
California Assemblyman Van Tran, Westminster City Council Member Tri Ta, Garden Grove City Council Member Dina Nguyen, and Midway City Sanitary District Director Truong Diep will all serve on the Advisory Committee of Asian-Americans for John McCain.
"I am very proud to support John McCain, a man who has done so much for America and for Asian-Americans across our nation," said Assemblyman Tran. "He clearly is the best candidate to represent all Americans in the White House."
John McCain thanked the group, stating, "I am proud to have the support of these distinguished members of the Vietnamese-American community. We have worked together in the past and I look forward to their support as we work toward victory in California on Super Tuesday."
Assemblyman Van Tran is the highest ranking Vietnamese-American elected official in the nation. Assemblyman Tran was elected to the California State Assembly in November 2004 and serves as an Assistant Republican Leader in the Assembly. He represents the 68th Assembly District in Orange County, including the cities of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Newport Beach, Stanton, and Westminster. Assemblyman Tran's family first came to America in 1975, evacuated by the U.S. Army a week before the fall of Saigon.
Council Member Tri Ta was elected to the Westminster City Council in November, 2006. Prior to his election, he served on the city's Energy Committee and the Advisory Committee for the Disabled. Councilmember Ta was born in Saigon, Vietnam. He came to the United States with his family in 1992 at the age of nineteen.
Council Member Dina Nguyen was elected to the Garden Grove City Council in November, 2006. Prior to her election, she served as a commissioner on the Garden Grove Neighborhood Improvement and Conservation Commission. Councilmember Nguyen has lived in Orange County since arriving in California in 1977.
Sanitary District Director Truong Diep was elected to the Midway City Sanitary District in November, 2006 and is the youngest elected official in Orange County. Director Diep and his family resettled in Southern California in 1991.
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Making of the President 2008, Viet Politics
If Mc Cain wins the "Tran Team" will have a lot to crow about in the Viet Community. Much of it will be hype but you can expect them to be talking about how close they are to a future President and that Tran remains influential in American politics. Smart political move even if in reality it will lack substance.
All the Trannies line up in lock step? That's odd...
I heard Trung Nguyen is a Romney guy, and didn't Janet supported Rudy?
Team Tran has raised money and provided Viet media coverage for the McCain Campaign, among many other activities. Can't say that for Janet Nguyen, who only cares about herself.
Vietnam has condemned McCain's use of the epithet
http://www.vote.com/vote/4048875/objective4048878.phtml?cat=4075633
Viet Bolsa,
So, the Commies condemn McCain. You agree with them? Sounds like you are. We know where your political affilation is with now.
Viet Brookhurst,
Do you think I agree with Vietnamese Communist traitor?
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate
By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
December 1992 Issue
http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm
http://www.usvetdsp.com/qumanch2.jpg
Sen. John McCain embraces Mai Van On who wa in the "jeering crowd" pulled McCain from Hanoi's Truc Bach Lake in 1967. The "mod" bayoneted McCain in the food and smashed his shoulder with riffle butt.
First Lynn Daucher, then John McCain?
Which moderate/liberal candidate is next for this political operation?
Hey Anon,
Why don't you call on the Lincoln Club, Scott Baugh and Dick Ackerman, bastions of conservatism all, and ask about their financing of and support for Daucher? Haven't heard a peep from you before hand.