After taking a pounding yesterday from Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez's mail attack, Van Tran fired back today in area mailboxes.
The theme for Tran's newest campaign ad is “Enough is Enough.”
Tran, a Little Saigon Republican state assemblyman, says in the two-sided, glossy message that “Loretta Sanchez [image of a red heart] Washington.”
He wasn't trying to be sweet or funny.
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Accompanying Tran's words is an image of a smug-looking Sanchez appearing on TMZ in 2008 and celebrating a party. She is quoted as saying, 'There's a lot of celebrities in town. We're going to the Stag Party tonight for example.'”
There are also newspaper blurbs of Sanchez looking “forward all year to hunk night!” and a mention of one of her visits to Hugh Hefner at the Playboy mansion.
Tran's conclusion: “14 years of lavish pay, foreign trips and extravagant parties [and] only 1 law passed. It named a post office.”
“The career politicians in Washington treat Congress like a personal playground while working families are struggling to make ends meet,” writes Tran. “It's time to get down to business.”
Tran added quotes from local voters–Mike Hurley, Albert Diaz and Nancy Gallivan–saying that Sanchez has failed the district that includes Santa Ana, Anaheim and Garden Grove.
The race is likely to be Orange County's most bitter. Sanchez is OC's lone congressional Democrat and Tran, a South Vietnamese refugee, is a rising star in local GOP circles. The pair is set to debate next week on KOCE.
–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.
