Van Tran must be feeling sore under his chin after Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez slugged him again today with another hostile mailbox piece that capitalizes on the unfortunate picture of a closed-eyed Tran apparently sleeping at his state assembly desk.
“California's economy is declining . . . The state budget is on the brink of disaster . . . [images of depressing newspaper headlines] . . . Where has Assemblyman Van Tran been?” reads the front of the four-sided, glossy ad.
Accompanying the notorious Tran picture is Sanchez's answer.
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“Asleep at the wheel,” says the ad. “While Assemblyman Van Tran is dozing, Californians are suffering . . . Van Tran seems more concerned with pocketing political perks at taxpayer expense . . . and doing favors for special interests who have donated tens of thousands of dollars to his campaign . . . Now he wants your vote for Congress? Wake up, Van Tran. The last thing we need in Washington is a greedy Sacramento politician.”
(Personally, I'm one of those who believes that California would be better off if all legislators slept thru each session.)
For his part, Tran's mail has portrayed Sanchez as a mental lightweight and party animal who has done nothing of substance during her many terms in office.
The upcoming debate on KOCE should be quite entertaining.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
