Hinkiness In Dina Nguyen Campaign Report
Posted by: Jubal | 03/27/2008 11:10 AM
Yesterday, it came out she had collected almost $20,000 in contributions before she had filed the requisite form 501 -- and you're not supposed to do that.
That could be chalked up to sloppiness or oversight, and just means extra work for her campaign to fix.
But now a new problem with Dina's campaign report has emerged.
Page 5 of her report lists a $1,600 dollar contribution from Dalat Supermarket.
The problem is Dalat Supermarket only contributed $1,000:
This could either be an inadvertent error, or an attempt to inflate reported contributions (and I sincerely hope that isn't the case. One time Assemmblywoman-elect Jan Leja can attest to how that comes to a bad end). There's no way to know without seeing copies of all the contribution checks and matching them against he reported amounts.
The Dalat check is also one of the contributions that were collected too early.
This leads back to one of the strangest things about Dina Nguyen's campaign report: she is serving as her own treasurer -- which is both unusual and foolish.
Dina had utilized veteran professional treasurer Lysa Ray for her city council race. And now Dina is serving as her own campaign treasurer. I don't know if Dina declined to continue using Lysa's services, if Lysa decided she didn't want to do it any longer, or if Dina figured she can just do it herself.
You're running a spring of a supervisor campaign against an incumbent and you have to raise a lot of money fast -- in addition to going to events, walking precincts and doing all the other things a candidate has to do. Not to mention work and family commitments.
Why would you take on the extra work of being your own campaign treasurer when a) you've never done it before and b) you're in a high profile race in which your reports are going too receive forensic-level attention and c) the inevitable mistakes are going to divert time, energy and momentum away from the primary goal of forcing Janet Nguyen into a run-off?
I get a feeling this ain't the end of it.
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I agree. These are silly mistakes.
I would highly advise that Dina call Lysa. She is the best and her services extend further than just that of an everyday treasurer.
You guys know who to call to get the number.
It may be too late - why would Lysa sign on to sail with a sinking ship and who knows what else is wrong with that report?
Too late? Sinking ship?
I'm confident Lysa would be happy to have Dina as a client.
D'Anconia is right.
The first thing Dina needs to do is staunch the bleeding by hiring a professional treasurer to rectify any mistakes still contained in her report -- and to ensure no more occur.
If Dina continues to serve as her own treasurer, this kind of thing is almost guaranteed to happen again. She'll be a poor treasurer and a less effective candidate.
Small error, but great deal for Dina, Janet's scaring now. How the cancelled check took out from Dalat Supermarket ?. How Janet got involve this this petty trick. Wait and see it will come out soon.
I'm not so sure Lysa would want to come in after the fact and have to fix all the "mistakes" that were made, especially if it looks like there are more problems beyond what Jubal has already reported.
Too Late, no offense, but if you think these mistakes are hard to fix then you don't know what you're talking about.
My question is mor ealong the lines of whether they were really "mistakes", if you know what I mean.
Too late., yeah the real "Too late" is quickly dissolving Janet's support...... It's kind of weird to watch incumbent raising less money than her giant challenger Dina.
I guess Janet has been disappointing tons of people and it's "Too late to bring them back.........
Too Late,
Is this what Janet's gonna campaign on against Dina? Clerical errors? Resonates real well with the voters. It's hypocritical of how a sitting Supervisor got slapped with a 5K FPPC fine, like Janet, and for evading and hiding the illegal sources from the public for more than 53 days, is now trying desperately to paint Dina as her equal ... with the offense that is.
Desperation does bring out the worse pettiness in Janet Nguyen and her people.
Jubal,
I don't see anything hinky about this other than simple errors. One can say that Dina is getting so much money and support from donors in such a short period of time that simple reporting mistakes are made. She just got to be more careful. That's all. I wouldn't try to read anything more to this.
As for your attempt to set ground rules on "stupid" posts, it is almost impossible and impractical. Who's to determine that one man's trash is another treasure, and vice versa? People can have honest disagreements on issues, even stupid ones. Don't try to police message contents unless it is forbidden by slander and defamation laws. This is not the slippery slope you want to go down.
Besides, don't you agree that without the so-called stupid comments, the smart comments would not have sounded as smart, right?
I have seen more "pettiness" from the Van Tran Camp with endless law suits, endless slings and arrows, endless harassment, round-about undermining of anything "Janet" from the day she won the seat. Even when she was running it was a huge effort from that machine to take her down. Why? Because she does not agree with everything Van Tran wants to do or does. Having been in that precarious position myself in another arena, I understand the continuous harassment of Janet. She is a strong woman and I am glad someone is standing up to "the Machine" - those that know how that machine works should be proud of her too. I know my campaign contributions will be going her way.
I think that an objective review of the situation would indicate that Dina's fund rasing is impressive. Will it be enough is an unanswered question; however a November run off is becoming somewhat more likely.
Anon.,aka Arturo, "....been in that precarious position.." and now you are a proud Independent party member who is voting for Obama?
"...my contributions will be going her way". My friend Artie, you should have already send your dinero to Janet.....she has hard time paying bills NOW!
Art, keep spitting out your lies again........Do you know bad habits can run in the family tree?.
Hoa Tran the Dem posted nearly 50K in the bank. There will be a run off in November. Janet's in deep doo-doo. Serves her right for being a you know what....
The moral of the story about Janet Nguyen and the current dust up in the 1st is this: If you run your life getting along with people and making friends, then your life would be that much smoother and less difficult because people will either help you or cut you a break. But if you run your life fighting against everyone and being nasty, then people will have no compunction to cut you down and treat you the same way that you (that's you, Janet) treat them.
It's the "yin and yang" of life. Janet's getting a yin for being a yang all this time. It's no mystery.
Looks like Janet is getting both the yin and the yangat the same time, on the side of her head. Hoa Tran and Dina Nguyen on each side.
Anonymous said:
I have seen more "pettiness" from the Van Tran Camp with endless law suits, endless slings and arrows, endless harassment, round-about undermining of anything "Janet" from the day she won the seat. Even when she was running it was a huge effort from that machine to take her down. Why? Because she does not agree with everything Van Tran wants to do or does. Having been in that precarious position myself in another arena, I understand the continuous harassment of Janet. She is a strong woman and I am glad someone is standing up to "the Machine" - those that know how that machine works should be proud of her too. I know my campaign contributions will be going her way.
I totally agreed with you there... After all that the dirty tricks that the Trannies pulled, not just one, but ONE after ANOTHER. If you don't work well with them, if you don't agreed with them or do as they expected of you then they start finding ways to bring you down. I am thankful that we have someone like Janet in government and i am so glad that she's strong enough to take on all of them head on. I will be so disappointed if the Republic part would endorse Dina, that will confirm to me that DEMOCRACY DOES NOT EXIST.
It's a real shame that they won't let it go and find ways to work with her to bring more money back to Little Saigon. Instead, they find ways to make NOT happen so they could find a way to do it themselves...
There will be plenty more mistakes, they have learn from their photoshop experience already so this time expect something more creative... Oh, I know. Maybe they can have Van Tran call up all the people that he knows and talk sh*t about Janet and encourage not to contribute to her campaign... oh, that's already been done... oh well, i am sure they will put all their heads together this weekend and find ways to do some damage to Janet. This community is so sick of it. Please get the Trannies out of this town.
Boo hoo hoo! The above two anononymous blogs are too funny. Don't let your mascara run, Janet. It's sad that you are resorting to desperation tactics. Dina is getting to you in such a bad way. There's mnore to come. Get ready for the storm that will blow you away.
How sad, she's out there working to bring money back to this community, attending functions and meetings, working with kids and the elderly, making sure that people like you are not abusing their power... she does not have time to blog like you extremist Trannies.
Dina has no ability to get to any one, it's all the Trannies dirty tricks that will be exposed soon. Dina has not earn the respect of many in our community, just because you make time to look pretty, show up at functions and think that will get you your votes. Van Tran and Andy Quach are out there harrassing people for money on her behalf because she has no abiltiy to raise funds by herself. Van Tran is also threatening the CRA to get them to endorse Dina. Because if she has to convince them, she wouldnt' be able to DO SO.
Now, get over it and get packing because the TRANNIES are no longer wanted in this town.
Anon.,aka Art and Janet's L Associate, are you still annoyed of the fact that Dina is going to be our next Supervisor?
Student, do you really not have anything more to add to the conversation than "aka Art", "aka Arturo de Peidra", "Dina is going to be our next supervisor"? Every post is the same, start coming up with some new material or logical argument and we'll talk.
And let me cut you off before you take this further, this is not Art Pedroza. Like I've said before, you guys give him WAY too much credit on here.
It's laughable every time i think of the Trannies. How are we suppose to respect this Dina if they are doing all the barking for her, all the fundraising and all the covering up for her dirty reputation? What can this woman do? Besides you know what. I will be a gentleman and wont say it. Can she even speak on her own or does she needs Van Tran and Andy Quach to script everything out for her as well? I think this is as dumb as it gets. Is Andy running around with earpiece playing "body guard" to his new girlfriend Dina because she's so important now that she's running for office? this man has no shame does he? What's next? If you look more carefully you will find plenty more illegal practices in their campaign... keep looking... you won't disappointed
Artie, send some sleeping aid pills for Janet because she couldn't sleep for many days worrying about Dina's strong war chest.
Add 2 bandaids also for her severely bruised fingers...she has been posting under Anon. for last two days on our OC blog here.......yes, spreading lies just like her brother Artie.
Janet don't have to worry about Trannies...... She has Arturo de Piedra and his Obama followers.
I honestly think we could use some change. Van Tran is the face of the Vietnamese local politics, I admired his pioneer effort but lately there's been too much bloodshed. He needs to be the bigger person and try to work it out. If you can't just do your own thing. Why gang up and try so hard to destroy one's career and replace it with someone like Dina. She does not know enough and she has not done enough. She also has no good reputation. I can only hope that this community will see right through Van Tran's plan and will continue to support Janet so she can effectively serve our community like she has. Only a year in office and look at what she's been able to do for us. Dina is not Supervisor material. We know more of her messy relationships then any contribution, she's made one campaign mistakes after another and she has all the Trannies to help her with it, believe or not they are all lawyers.
The real change is coming to these Anons. soon anyway....they need to look for new jobs when Janet is booted out from her office...... by Dina.
Dina is not dumb! She's just calculative and manipulative. She knows what she's doing when she listed the donation as $1600 instead $1000. Like how she's denying the relationship with AQ? Isn't she already in AQ's bed before Chow even move out of the home that AQ & Chow share together? To the Trannies this is no big deal because they are all crooks and criminals, or are connected to one. Just have a good look at them or their spouse and you will see. Maybe this is how they want it, becuase it helps with fundraisng effort... why didn't i think of that.
Forensic cpa, aka unemployed., get a job .....instead of yapping against strong candidate Dina who is going to be your Supervisor.
Do I need to call the "animal control" for you?
These Trannies are so bitter and angry... you can see it in their response. Calm down or you will give yourself a heart attack Trannies. Now, can someone give me Roxanne's number? Maybe she'll be able give us a straight answer. At least between the 3 of them I am willing to trust her more. Back to wrong amount being disclose by Dina, are we surprise that the Trannies are scrambling trying to cover up again... you will see a lot more of that in the coming weeks. They are famous for pointing fingers and covering things up.We should know by now.
Student,
You couldn't have proved my point any better. Thank you!
Anon 1:50 pm
Anon.,I can't comprehend animal yapping communications....except "thank you" So I might have Dina find you a job in the 5th Floor.....after she get elected to the office in November.
It's funny to read these Janet's sibling postings...... they say "laughable, how sad, ......" than they show anger management problems by spraying nasty, acidic lies against peaceful candidate Dina.
I can conclude that Janet's camp is hanging on to their last rope.
I have a suggestion. Block all posts originating from the Little Saigon and adjoining zip codes.
Good Gawd Jubal - close this post - it is embarrasing.
Jubal,
Where is the police to take these truant kids back to school?
I second Flowerszzz's motion.
We're on Spring Break. Otherwise I would rather be in school than hanging around here listening to all the complaints about how the Trannies are running this town like the mobs...
(Jubal block these IP's please) I am just getting home from working and run a quick check on the blogs and it appears a bunch of adolescent idiots didnt get to bed early enough. I assure you none of the day to day folks in any camp are writing here, you both should be ashamed of yourself. Campaigns are fought elsewhere. Your an embarasement.
Seriously I hope I dont know any of you clowns, id be embarrsed to call you my friends, or part of the profession. Go bad to grade school, Look I'm no fan of Janet, but if you want to either help her or attack her you better focus your efforts elsewhere... idiots.....