OC Young Dems Yank Hoa Endorsement
Posted by: Jubal | 05/27/2008 8:43 AM
I saw on TheLiberalOC.com the OC Young Democrats have withdrawn their endorsement of 1st Supervisor District candidate Hoa Van Tran.
Good for them.
Does this portend a similar action tonight by the Democratic Party of Orange County? Good question.
It seems unlikely, at least to me, that this special meeting would have been called unless there were some strong sentiment within the DPOC for yanking Hoa's endorsement. After all, it's only been a week since the regular meeting at which attempts to do so were squelched.
My advice -- which DPOC members are free to disregard since I'm a Republican -- is to pull the endorsement. Hoa is doomed. He is so damaged it is highly unlikely he will even make a run-off (if there is one) -- let alone win a general election.
I realize there are fears within some quarters that withdrawing this endorsement will harm their party's outreach efforts in the Vietnamese community, that Republicans - or more specifically, the Van Tran operation -- will use it against them with Vietnamese voters.
That may well be true. But does sticking with an ethically impaired Hoa help them? The GOP has backed a string of weak or just plan bizarre Hispanic nominees in central OC. Has that helped our outreach efforts among Latinos?
Better to recruit a quality Vietnamese candidate -- especially one with the backbone to be the boss of his campaign manager and insist upon running a clean campaign.
The DPOC doesn't owe the Hoa anything. His wounds are totally and needlessly self-inflicted. He could have easily, and long ago, put his troubles behind him and thus avoided putting his party in this situation. The consequences of his utter failure to control his campaign should obligate the DPOC to lash themselves to that failure.
Good for them.
Does this portend a similar action tonight by the Democratic Party of Orange County? Good question.
It seems unlikely, at least to me, that this special meeting would have been called unless there were some strong sentiment within the DPOC for yanking Hoa's endorsement. After all, it's only been a week since the regular meeting at which attempts to do so were squelched.
My advice -- which DPOC members are free to disregard since I'm a Republican -- is to pull the endorsement. Hoa is doomed. He is so damaged it is highly unlikely he will even make a run-off (if there is one) -- let alone win a general election.
I realize there are fears within some quarters that withdrawing this endorsement will harm their party's outreach efforts in the Vietnamese community, that Republicans - or more specifically, the Van Tran operation -- will use it against them with Vietnamese voters.
That may well be true. But does sticking with an ethically impaired Hoa help them? The GOP has backed a string of weak or just plan bizarre Hispanic nominees in central OC. Has that helped our outreach efforts among Latinos?
Better to recruit a quality Vietnamese candidate -- especially one with the backbone to be the boss of his campaign manager and insist upon running a clean campaign.
The DPOC doesn't owe the Hoa anything. His wounds are totally and needlessly self-inflicted. He could have easily, and long ago, put his troubles behind him and thus avoided putting his party in this situation. The consequences of his utter failure to control his campaign should obligate the DPOC to lash themselves to that failure.
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This is hillarious. I wonder how people like Phu Do Nguyen, Tammy Tran, Trung Ta, Kimchi Nguyen, you know the folks belonging to the Vietnamese Democratic Club, would react to this kind of assault from their own party?
That's right boys and girls, you can go on your weekly radio show and bash George Bush and Republicans all you want and your party will still throw you under the bus, lol.
Not that she has hired gang members, but does sticking with an ethically impaired Janet help us? The GOP has backed a string of weak or just plan bizarre Hispanic nominees in central OC. Has that helped our outreach efforts among Latinos?
Better to recruit a quality Vietnamese candidate -- especially one with the backbone to be the boss of her campaign manager and insist upon running a clean campaign.(Not too clean after throwing out GOP votes with the help of union lawyers, opening an illegal campaign account, accepting contributions over the limit, not disclosing her donors and giving out pork to her donors.)
The RPOC doesn't owe Janet anything. Her wounds are totally and needlessly self-inflicted. She could have easily, and long ago, put her troubles behind her and thus avoided putting his party in this situation. The consequences of her utter failure to control her campaign should obligate the RPOC to lash themselves to that failure.
I am still wondering who would link Dina and Hoa's websites to gay porn too? But I'm sure that when the truth emerges in that mystery, it will prove how ethical Janet is.