What the 1st District Likes About Janet Nguyen
Posted by: Lady Fingers | 04/21/2008 12:18 PM
That Janet Nguyen stands as a paragon of independence in a county of cluttered masses that dissent and divide by their own hand among themselves; we have a person that stands for independence, and relies not on heavily funded factions.
That Janet Nguyen not only claims to represent all the people of the first district, but that she actually does it is admirable. That she is a conservative Republican is undeniable. That she cares for even the "least" (Biblically speaking) among us is admirable. That she fights strongly for what she believes is the best for her district becomes more apparent every day; and with every Supervisor's meeting.
She not only cares about the health of her district, she cares about the various factions and has made huge strides in comparison to her predecessors to help each faction, i.e. ALL of the first district. Unknown to a large segment of OC, this Supervisor has:
The Bridge....the intent is to strengthen the area commerce and improve the traffic. Most areas in OC are not as conglomerated and crowded as Little Saigon. If you have ever driven down Bolsa on a weekend and tried to find parking at any shopping location you know what the traffic is like. Once you find a parking place, be it in the dirt lot at the south end of Moran or in one of the paved lots you really don't want to give it up to park closer to the other side of the very wide Bolsa Avenue. And the traffic is so thick you nearly have to wave cars down to get them to let you pass (talking about all the right turns into shopping centers).
All admirable for just over a year in office I would say. Especially with all the distractions she has been made to be responsive to. But yes, these are just some of the things the people in the first district LIKE about Janet Nguyen. She works hard to represent EVERYONE.
That Janet Nguyen not only claims to represent all the people of the first district, but that she actually does it is admirable. That she is a conservative Republican is undeniable. That she cares for even the "least" (Biblically speaking) among us is admirable. That she fights strongly for what she believes is the best for her district becomes more apparent every day; and with every Supervisor's meeting.
She not only cares about the health of her district, she cares about the various factions and has made huge strides in comparison to her predecessors to help each faction, i.e. ALL of the first district. Unknown to a large segment of OC, this Supervisor has:
- formed a Latino Advisory Group
- held health and safety and housing Fair's in various cities;
- she has Chaired the Children and Families Commission of Orange County;
- she has hosted town hall meetings in various cities to get direct public input;
- she is a leader in the Civic Center Homeless Task Force
- she supported and voted to approve an agreement for a Cold Weather Armory Shelter Program for the homess with St. Vincent de Paul Society
- Supported the renewal of the Santa Ana Enterprise Zone, calling on Governor Schwarzenegger to support the renewal
- supported and voted for increased park space in the 1st and 4th districts; the 1st district has suffered for many years from lack of park space (National Parks Standards indicate 4 Acres per 1,000 residents and many city's are woefully beneath this level)
- Voted to approve installation of new sewers and replace broken sidewalks in the Unincorporated area of Midway City
- Opposed the building of a casino in Garden Grove
- Opposed the proposed container tax
- Opposed Medical Marijuana ID Cards
- Voted in favor of the performance audit which will review county efficiency
- Currently serves on: Orange County Transportaion Authority and the Committee on Transit Planning and Operations; as an alternate on the Cal Optima Board; as an alternate on the OC Fire Authority BoardIn addition to these decisions, Janet Nguyen protested the President of the Communist Government of Vietnam in Orange county and at the United Nations in New York City. And she brought the County CEO and other County upper management staff to introduce them to Little Saigon. Many had never been there before. She showed them the need for the County Community Service Center and why this particular community really needed one. The Santa Ana residents are extremely close to all their public offices and can virtually walk to any of the County seat's community service offices within minutes. The Westminster site is pretty remote to the county seat. She has brought the "mountain" to the people.
The Bridge....the intent is to strengthen the area commerce and improve the traffic. Most areas in OC are not as conglomerated and crowded as Little Saigon. If you have ever driven down Bolsa on a weekend and tried to find parking at any shopping location you know what the traffic is like. Once you find a parking place, be it in the dirt lot at the south end of Moran or in one of the paved lots you really don't want to give it up to park closer to the other side of the very wide Bolsa Avenue. And the traffic is so thick you nearly have to wave cars down to get them to let you pass (talking about all the right turns into shopping centers).
All admirable for just over a year in office I would say. Especially with all the distractions she has been made to be responsive to. But yes, these are just some of the things the people in the first district LIKE about Janet Nguyen. She works hard to represent EVERYONE.
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Sorry for the editing glitches, when posting here and saving a post, it looked nothing like this, it actually had bullet dots, was aligned perfectly and looked as if someone who knows how to type actually posted it. I don't know what the transformation is due to from my saved version to what actually publishes here...perhaps a conversation on editing more in depth would be helpful...and, I didn't italisize anything...
Lady Fingers:
You make it like Janet is revered and the goddess politician of the 1st District. Hahaha... What a joke!
Dear Remember1974: I don't know - sounds pretty factual to me.
Lady Fingers, well written, concise and accurate. Keep up the good work. The message will be heard.
Uh oh. Open the floodgates.
"The Westminster site is pretty remote to the county seat" ??
As "remote" from downtown Santa Ana as Brea? San Clemente? Seal Beach?
Yet none of these communities are lucky enough to have a "community services" office.
At the state level, the Assemblymember who's district includes the Capitol traditionally is not afforded a district office. S/he is expected to use their Capitol office for both purposes. Following this logic, Janet would be the only Supervisor who would NOT qualify for a separate office, since the county government offices are nearby most of her constituents.
She could, in this time of fiscal crisis, close the extra office to save money. But I doubt she will.
Eeeek!
After almost a week of being able to come up with something to defend against the accusations brought forth in Viorel's post, this is the best Janet's team could come up with????
At first I thought she'd run away with this endorsement, but now I'm having second thoughts...
Publius: remember the demographics and the income levels in the communities of Brea, San Clemente and Seal Beach. Really, do you think many people in those areas need a public service office in their neighborhood?
TO DIANCONIA: Did you really believe all that stuff in Viorel's post? poor thing. It was pretty pumped, pretty biased, and most arguments had already been hashed through on this blog many times. It was old hat that no one really gives a rip about...been there...done that....why regurgitate it all again, unless one hoped to affect the endorsement tonight...same with Tomahawk's post today...humm...there have been so many negative posts by these guys I wonder that you can be so struck with one positive post, don't be so upset. Take a deep breath!!
Anon @ 3:08pm
It wasn't that I was struck with one "positive" post. I was struck because I expected a response post from Janet's team and this just did not cut it. Maybe Adam should have written something, I don't know.
That's just my opinion. I'm curious to see how tonight goes though because, like I said, two months ago I never thought it would be a close vote; and now it is.
That's all.
Dear D'Aconia:
I think all the responses had actually preceeded the post and Janet's team saw it for what it was, a "bait party". I think they just didn't want to participate in yet another iteration of all the same things. It gets tiring after a while to defend and re-defend and re-state and reiterate in response to the same repeated charges that have already been answered time and again, you know?
I know tonights meeting will be charged with the factions in place ready to do battle, reminds me of the old Theater on Beach Blvd. where the horses charged one against the other. But it is so undignified of the Tran Team to try to split the party this way. I think people see this as the "poor loser" syndrome and they really get a bad vibe from it. Tran Team just needs to let this one go, he has enough power as an Assemblyman, and I'm sure this is just tarnishing his image. He should rise above it and offer up his support to Janet for the Party and to clean his own house from this mess.
The demographic argument doesn't quite fly. You're making some assumptions about all of those communities. Granted, the AVERAGE income in each is probably higher than in Westminster, but there are plenty of economically-disadvantaged people in Brea, San Clemente, and Seal Beach. People who would have to take a transfer on a few buses to get to downtown SA. And plenty of others who aren't anxious to drive to SA paying $4/gallon.
To open the county's ONLY "Constituent Service" office so close to the county seat is simply pandering to a particular constituency.
And that's something Janet does all too well.
Lady Fingers......Janet is on the spending spree to lure Viet votes!
Janet wants to build $2.5 million dollar Viet Bridge in Little Saigon while neglecting other city's more important dire problems.
Janet has been only loolking at Little Saigon for Little bit too much!
Janet has been having a very difficult time attracting Viet voters (thanks to her opponent Dina's growing popularity) and she is resorting to "FREE GIFT BAIT" exclusively designed for asian voters.
I guess Janet figured she does not need Santa Ana voters for this Supe. election
Dina popular? Are you kidding me? Are you dillussional? Most of the people in the Viet community dont' even know of her before she ran for office. During her 1 and 1/2 years as councilwoman, she hasn't done anything that's worth mentioning. for her to challenge Janet is a joke to most Viet voters... she's been talked a lot recently only because her messy personal relationship to married men surfaced and her sneaking around with Andy Quach behind his girlfriend's back made her the talk of the town, if you call that popular then I guess she is...
"Community Activist," I agree with you. "Cra republican" aka Tim Whitacre, is just mad that he lost his fight against janet tonight and that two of his 69th AD caucus members voted in favor of Janet.
Tim's gonna be sucking his sore thumb for awhile after this. Give him sometime and he'll be back to his old "Let's Take the Hill" self -- which only results in getting Democrats elected in Santa Ana.
Guru, You think Tim is "CRA Republican?" I think everybody here BUT you knows better than that. LOL!
Anon, I dunno. Tim tries to pass himself off as such. I dunno. He's the republican version of Paul Lucas.
All I gotta say is 44-14...
Van, Andy, Dina, Lan all looked dejected as can be leaving. Guess it stings when you fly all the way down from Sacramento to get slapped with a MANDATE!
Guru (Thomas Gordon), You and Art Pedroza's opinions matter because why?
Congratulations to Janet Nguyen - the All American Girl!!! She handled herself last night with class and grace; and Van Tran said "if" she wins in June or November their community (the Viets) will support her.
Lady Fingers:
Why did you edit my comment??? Were you afraid of me asking you the truth??? I thought this was supposed to be a blog where people can express their opinions with limited censorship. As a writer of this blog, you should be open to questions and opinions of those bloggers on this site. Your redaction of my comment is a disappointment - mostly it did not contain any profanity or absurd languages.
Dear "REMEMBER 1974" - I do not have removal/editing rights and therefore it was not me who removed anything. Apparently something in it was offensive to the editors, and if they removed it then there is nothing I can do about it.
Lady Fingers
Hey Thomas Gordo, did all the gurus passed away? Now you are calling yourself a "GURU"? Ask my neighbor friend Arturo who is "cra republican".
Janet has long ways to go from now to June to overcome Dina's strong lead in central OC.
Communist activist.... from Guam, Did you attend last weekend Dina's fund raising event?
Janet was so worried that "Losing team Janet" members were sent to find out the number of reserved seats with flash lights....well over 300 strong supporters were counted. "Popular" Dina made everyone happy.
"Cra republican" aka Tim Whitacre, sorry to disappoint you but, The Guru is NOT Thomas Gordon. Thomas at least has the gall to put up comments and posts under his own name.
You on the other hand...? Well, you're a scuzball.
Arturo, you are Sophia today? Well, you are a woman now.
CRA Republican: You continue to make erroneous and unsubstantiated remarks that neither add to the quality of the conversation nor enrich the knowlege of anyone on this blog. You should find something else to do with your time besides making such a display of your uninformed opinions, and possibly take an English as a Second Language class to improve the quality of your statements so other might understand what it is you mean.
"Cra republican" aka Tim Whitacre, I'm not Art Pedroza either. You wanna take another wrong guess and make it a hat trick? You're only making yourself look bad... that is, of course, not hard to do.
vivian
you forgot to mention that janet
promised to build a bridge to nowhere and cost the taxpayers $2.5m. it will enlarge jao's pocket in the same amount.
opposed the buddhists to build a temple after falsely accusing them of illegal acts.
we will
Lady Finger's lop-sided propaganda for Janet can only bring about more detrimental facts concerning losing team Janet.
Vivian must be seeking for more favorable opportunities with Janet.
And "Cra republican" aka Tim Whitacre must be looking for new ways to see how he can get his democrat friends elected into office. Perhaps they're paying him to be a spy on the central committee? Ugh, he's such a scuzball.
"CRA Republican" I really doubt you are a CRA Republican at all because if you were you would not have such low class commentary about people. When you say "Lady Finger's lop-sided propaganda for Janet..." we all laugh at you. Think of all the lopsided erroneous and false accusations and polls and trash you have been dishing out about Janet...so that's not lopsided for Dina? Get a reality check, pull your head out...
Relax...boys and girls!
I am NOT Tim! But I am conservative republican deeply concerned about your losing team Janet.
CRA Republican - and we are deeply concerned about you giving the CRA a bad name...
Anon., CRA has good name because we speak the truth.
So Janet dishes out pork and welfare and creates a few new bureaucracies and you think the criticisms from conservatives will stop?
One cargo tax vote (which was a good one by the way) does not make up for this kind of government hand out.
It is understandable to want to support the incumbent Republican but it surprises me that our local Central Committee is blind to her spending and legal abuses.
Maybe what the First district likes about Janet Nguyen is that she is not Van Tran.
Been around the circle,
No, the reason we like about First district is that underserving Janet is going to be replaced by Dina Nguyen soon.
Don not dare to compare low grade Janet with any of our good republicans.
And by "good republicans" do you mean Assemblyman Van Tran who scored an 84% on YOUR CRA's 2007 Legislative Scorecard? The same Assemblyman Van Tran who ranked in the bottom third of YOUR CRA's ranking of Republican Assemblymembers?
Here is the data in case you misplaced it: http://www.californiarepublicanassembly.com/pdfs/CRALegislativeScorecard2007.pdf
Yes, Art..... according to our record Assemblyman Van Tran is 100% pro life, pro family and pro God.
We definitely want more republican assemblyman leader like Van Tran.
Thanks Assemblyman Van Tran!
"CRA has good name because we speak the truth"
That's true, the CRA is a very truthful organization. Which always made me curious why Tim Whitacre associates with them. Such truthful people should be wary of him since he lacks the ability to be honest with people. He does want is good for Tim. He's the republican Paul lucas.
Li Pedroza, that's why Janet always hangs around with you.... when will she vote for Obama?
And sign gay marriage proposals?............... before calling for legalization of prostitution in OC ?
You forgot to mention that Janet Nguyen is perharps endorsed by the Communist party in Vietnam as well. Her strongest supporters are Lee sandwich and Tru Cong Le, one has a lot of investment in Vietnam while the other organize a meeting for Vietnamese Prime Minister Treit Minh Nguyen in Dana Point last year. ( look at her campaign contribution list).
Althoug Dina is endorsed by Fran Jao, another scrupulous investor in Little Saigon who sided with the Vet Communist, her Dina and the Trannies epress well to the community that they are in politic for the money, while Janet secreting hiding her intention. May be we should abstain from voting for either Janet or Dina, since neither one deseve our vote. May be Hoa Van Tran will win.
Brandon, are you severely ill???
Your statements are something out of mental institution!!!
If you don't know the facts......go back to bed.
If you only knew how many people say the same thing about you CRA...
It's almost like looking in a mirror.
So you want more Republicans that only meet those 3 standards and nothing more. Guess that opens the door for all the pro-life, pro-family, pro-God, anti-gun, anti-war, anti-limited goverment Republicans.
Come on CRA, try to think through your argument before you throw it out there.