Andrew Do, was reelected to represent Orange County’s First Supervisorial District in the November General Election although his former boss, State Senator Janet Nguyen, stabbed him in the back. Nguyen opposed Do’s reelection. This was highly unusual as the OC GOP usually will have a cow if their members refuse to back each other.
Now Nguyen has to be looking behind her shoulder as Do handily beat his opponent, Santa Ana City Councilwoman Michele Martinez. Continue reading
State Senator Elect Ling Ling Chang
It was going to be an uphill battle for Asm. Young Kim and sure enough when the votes were tallied she ended up losing in a close raise to her predecessor, Sharon Quirk-Silva, in the 65th Assembly District, by about 1,500 votes.
Quirk-Silva most likely benefited from a surge of Latino voters who presumably went to the polls to vote for Hillary Clinton. Continue reading
State Senator Janet Nguyen was once mentored by Garden Grove City Councilman Van Tran. In fact she and her husband even had a joint honeymoon with Tran and his wife. However after she got elected to the Garden Grove City Council she turned on Tran and became his bitter enemy. I asked her why that came to be a few years ago and she said that Tran tried to control her City Council campaign.
Now many years later Nguyen has turned on a candidate who was once her right hand – Andrew Do. He served as Nguyen’s Chief of Staff and when she moved on to the State Senate, Nguyen helped Do to take her place at the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Then she turned on him just like she once turned on Tran.
We don’t know exactly why Nguyen decided to hate on Do. But we do know that she sent out a robo-call during the June Primary Election this year, in Vietnamese. Here is the translated script of that call, courtesy of the OC Weekly: Continue reading
Orange County is not the Republican bastion it used to be. Consider that in this week’s 2016 Primary Election the Democratic Presidential nominees, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, together netted over 130K votes while the GOP nominee, Donald Trump, only totaled 151K votes.
But the news gets worse for the OC GOP. Look at how poorly the Orange County Republican candidates for legislative offices did on June 7: Continue reading
FPPC TO INVESTIGATE SUPERVISOR ANDREW DO FOR USING FUNDS SOLICITED FROM A BUDDHIST TEMPLE FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSES
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE 1, 2016
CONTACT: STEPHEN SHIPMAN, 949-375-4577
GARDEN GROVE – California Fair Political Practices Commission Enforcement Division Spokesperson Chloe Hackert confirmed today that the State’s Ethics Committee would investigate a new complaint against County Supervisor Andrew Do.
The complaint which was filed by Do’s opponent Garden Grove City Councilmember Phat Bui, accuses Do of violation of the California General Code Section 82025 misusing $60,490 solicited from a Buddhist Temple and private companies which were earmarked for a “Mile Square Park Public Art/Historic Project.” Continue reading
