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November 7, 2006
Nguyen: Loretta tried to lynch me
Theo Douglas reporting from ... GARDEN GROVE--It was almost 9:30 election night, and when Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said on TV "The Democrats vow to lead the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history," the mood at 47th Congressional District Republican candidate Tan Nguyen's campai ... More >>
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November 7, 2006
Nuts Come Out for Nguyen, Take Daucher Along for Ride
Rebecca Schoenkopf reporting from . . . ORANGE, Teamsters Local Something or Other--We've been told state senate staffers are here, giving up vacation time to walk for Lou Correa, Democrat for OC's 34th state Senate District. People here are sitting in chairs, too (union thing?), looking at the Tee ... More >>
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November 7, 2006
The 100-Foot Penis Rule
Tan Nguyen strolled across the parking lot of the Santiago Community College District headquarters while wiping his brow. It was about 3:30 in the afternoon, and Nguyen was asking anyone entering the polling booth located inside to vote for him. Nguyen approached everyone who passed with a smile, i ... More >>
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October 20, 2006
We Defend Barbara Coe--Again!
Told you it wasn't the CCIR who sent out the letter telling Latinos immigrants can't vote. Turns out the California Attorney General's office fingered Tan Nguyen, who seemed like the ideal Republican congressional candidate--minority, immigrant-hating, and carpet-bagging. Jail time is rumored for th ... More >>
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October 20, 2006
Tan Nguyen's Only Friends...
...Yep: the anti-immigrant crowd. At today's raid/media circus at Republican congressional candidate/alleged anti-Latino letter sender Tan Nguyen's office, a contingent of fogies from the California Coalition for Immigration Reform--apparently forgiving Nguyen for faking their letterhead and sending ... More >>
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October 22, 2006
Tan Nguyen: The New Bob Dornan!
Much more tomorrow on today's nutty press conference held by Tan Nguyen, the man who proclaimed this afternoon he would defeat Loretta Sanchez and blasted the Republican leadership for abandoning him (Tan Nguyen is the new Bob Dornan--we said it first until someone proves otherwise!). Nguyen and a c ... More >>
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October 22, 2006
Why Is La Opinion Changing the Tan Nguyen Letter?
La Opinión is the dean of America's Spanish-language dailies, dating back to the 1930s. Its owners, the Lozano family, are tireless advocates of Latinos, and the paper's Pilar Marrero is one of Southern California's best political reporters, damn the language. But their coverage of the Tan N ... More >>
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October 23, 2006
Red (County) Herring
Tan Nguyen is an unfortunate, foolish, racist man who did and continues to do unfortunate, foolish, racist things. But who cares? Don't get me wrong, the issue deserves coverage, especially from OC's homegrown authority on all things Mexican. But Tan is drawing all eyes to him - journalists and blog ... More >>
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October 23, 2006
Who is Sergio Ramirez?
Rebel Girl over at the always awesome Dissent the Blog weighs in on OC's Keyser Soze, the man who signed the infamous Tan Nguyen "immigrants can't vote" letter. Turns out it might be a Sandinista! Full Tan Nguyen coverage: Why is La Opinion Changing the Tan Nguyen Letter? Tan Nguyen: The New Bob ... More >>
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October 23, 2006
Registration Deadline
Today is the last day to register if you want to vote in the November 7 election. Answers to any questions you might have can be found at the Secretary of State's website, or by calling one of his office's toll-free helplines. English: 1-800-345-VOTE Spanish: 1-800-232-VOTA Chinese: 1-800-339-2857 ... More >>
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October 23, 2006
Tan Nguyen Wants to Have it Both Ways
Our favorite xenophobic Vietnamese hasn't yet renounced his Republican candidacy for the 47th Congressional District, even though GOP chair Scott Baugh has demanded his resignation and Nguyen blasted Baugh at yesterday's press conference. Yesterday, Nguyen also passed out his latest mailer to the pr ... More >>
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October 23, 2006
Tan Nguyen on John & Ken This Wednesday
Listening to L.A.'s favorite boors and heard that Tan Nguyen will appear this Wednesday--maybe an in-studio appearance. As a preview of what may come, JohnKen spelled out Nguyen's last name to their listeners. JohnKen also praised my earlier post examining La Opinión's translation games, then ... More >>
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October 24, 2006
Tan Nguyen Makes Ass Out of Himself (Part 38)
Our favorite Demopublican (or, conversely, Republocrat) had a chance to endear himself to a national audience this morning on The Radio Factor, home of loofa-loving Bill O'Reilly. KABC-AM 790 morning guy Doug McIntyre filled in and was ready to give Nguyen an on-air hummer. Then Nguyen actually spok ... More >>
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October 24, 2006
Rohrabacher Cuts and Runs
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher had his ass handed to him yesterday in not one but two debates with opponent Jim Brandt. At least, I think he did. It's kinda hard to find out. Why is that? It's because the only mention of Rohrabacher in the past day's press is as Tan Nguyen's former opponent. Damn it. ... More >>
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October 25, 2006
Exclusive: Sergio Ramirez Speaks!
Sergio Ramirez is a double major in environmental studies and political science at Long Beach State. In March, Ramirez and a friend attended a meeting of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform for one of their classes. The two signed in, talked to some folks and took some pamplets back to t ... More >>
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October 26, 2006
Nguyen-Nguyen Situation
Sigh. The LA Times reports today that the Los Angeled Police Department officer who paid for the now-infamous letter to Spanish-speaking immigrants in Orange County is none other than Mark Nguyen. Mark is said to have paid $4,000 for the letter's dissemination under a fake name, and he lives with th ... More >>
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October 29, 2006
Fighting Racism With Racism
The good news: Tan Nguyen supporters held a rally at Tan's office yesterday, providing still more ridiculousness to keep our spirits up as we draw closer to the Election Day of Reckoning. Tan supporters are certainly a colorful bunch. Over on the Free Republic website they've posted quite a few pict ... More >>
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October 31, 2006
Support Your Local Right-Wing Bloggers
Enough, enough, I say, to those who are chastizing various local GOP bloggers and GOP blog responders over their inadequacies and mealy mouthedness when it comes to calling out the racists and racism swirling around doomed congressional candidate Tan Nguyen. First, you left fielders criticize Republ ... More >>
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November 27, 2006
Punishing Prevatt, Flailing Fleischman
Chris Prevatt is a local blogger, an employee of the County Health Care Agency, and a man without a computer. The County took Prevatt's computer as part of an investigation as to whether he used county time to post a blog entry on TheLiberalOC. The post in question displayed a photoshopped image of ... More >>
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January 30, 2007
Another Nguyen, Another Problem
The campaign of an OC Republican candidate named Nguyen has been caught distributing a clumsy bit of fraud. No, this is not another Tan Nguyen and the "Immigrants Can't Vote Letter" post. From this morning's Times: The campaign of an Orange County supervisorial candidate, whose slogan is "Honesty, ... More >>
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October 10, 2006
CAIR blasts GOP fear mongering
The Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has accused two politicos of smear campaigning and fear mongering in separate Orange County races. Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the CAIR office based in Anaheim, cited the remarks by former California Republican Pa ... More >>
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October 19, 2006
Letter to Latinos in Sanchez-Nguyen Race
Here is the letter in English that was sent to people with Latino surnames in the central Orange County congressional district represented by Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), who is opposed in the November election by Republican Tan Nguyen. The California Attorney General's office reportedly suspe ... More >>
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July 18, 2007
Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward
What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according t ... More >>
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August 28, 2007
Pete Wilson: The Orange County Connection Continues
The very first article I ever did--and I mean ever; I spent my college years trying to become a Latino Kubrick--dealt with how the Democratic Party used the spectre of former California Governor Pete "Proposition 187" Wilson to scare Latinos into voting Democrat. We haven't heard much from Pete sinc ... More >>
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January 25, 2008
None of His Bisno-iss
Only in SanTana can an effort to impose term limits on Papi Pulido transform into a ballot measure to extend term limits for councilmembers. But that's exactly what happened with Measure D, which SanTana voters will decide on February 5 and is one of the most laughable pieces of crap to grace Orange ... More >>
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February 5, 2008
Tan Nguyen Finally, Not Completely, Gone
About a year ago, I wrote a story about a campaign sign for failed Congressional candidate Tan Nguyen that stood on a phone pole on the corner of 17th and Durant streets in SanTana long after losing to Loretta Sanchez. The sign stood for months after we published article--like, this past fall afte ... More >>
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May 16, 2008
Funny Historical Quote of the Day...
...comes from Adelina Pleasants, author of 1931's History of Orange County California. In her entry on the county's citrus industry, Pleasants wondered whether "it is going to pay to replace all our fine walnut orchards with oranges." And you wonder why Orange Count historians are usually as respect ... More >>
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July 10, 2008
Baboso Busty Bursts Bubbles of Boho Beaners!
*Updated, with new info after the jump... Carlos Bustamante was supposed to be the Golden Boy, the Mexican who could deliver Latinos to the Republican Party in Orange County. He won a SanTana City Council seat in 2004 by defeating a Papi Pulido-backed candidate in the one OC city where Democrats ru ... More >>
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October 24, 2008
OC GOP Goes Back to Its Mexican-Bashing Roots in Fullerton City Council Race
In my latest book, I devote a chapter to the many sins of the Orange County Republican Party but also hinted that they were finally evolving from the slimeball campaigns of the past when it came to scoring easy points off of demonizing Mexicans. Specifically, I pointed to the 2006 Tan Nguyen affair ... More >>
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March 15, 2007
You Nguyen Some, You Lose Some
Campaign sign for notorious Mexican-baiter stands abandoned but immaculate in Santa Ana
Columns
November 2, 2006
Commie Girl
Good Clean Trashy Fun: Happy Halloween, y'all
News
November 2, 2006
Their Man Tan
Nguyen addresses his true believers
Columns
November 2, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Oct. 25 - Oct. 31
Columns
October 26, 2006
Commie Girl
Where Everybody Knows My Name: Take that, Gustavo!
News
October 26, 2006
Xenophobic From the Start
Surprised that GOP candidate was behind fake letter? Not me
Columns
October 26, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Oct. 18 - Oct. 24
News
October 26, 2006
The New Bob Dornan
Tan Nguyen channels the spirit of OC's favorite congressman
News
June 30, 2005
Losers Again
Communists, Bush defeat Little Saigon in human rights war
Blogs
May 14, 2009
Loretta Sanchez a Hypocritical Aztlanista
On my KPFK-FM 90.7 radio show this Tuesday, I interviewed a member of the Orange County Dream Team, a group of undocumented college students. This past Saturday, they and other supporters met with Congresswomen Loretta Sanchez, seeking her co-sponsorship of the DREAM Act, which would create a path t ... More >>
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September 30, 2009
Time for Boston To Give Us Their Crown as the Kings of Bigotry
OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any dayLet the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.� ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Tan Nguyen's Latino Voter Suppression Case Inching To Trial
Nguyen to Latinos: Voting can be "dangerous"In 2006, then five-term Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez faced yet another pathetic Republican challenger, Tan Nguyen, a candidate who equated plastering his campaign placards on every stick, fence and pole in the district with some sort of v ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
American Third Position Party Uses Tan Nguyen Signs to Promote their White-Power Party!
Asian-haters, Asian-users...Oh, the racial hypocrisies and hilarity of the American Third Position Party--the group of convicted criminals, anti-Semites, homophobes, flat-out racists and Long Beach State professor Kevin MacDonald that has created a whites-only political party that seeks to deport ... More >>
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June 28, 2010
Does Loretta Sanchez Have "Retaliatory Hands"?
Doesn't fear a tanPoor Tan Nguyen. The only folks who pay attention to his perennial congressional campaigns are apparently in the local U.S. Attorney's office. Worse, nowadays Nguyen is proving better at collecting criminal charges than votes.According to Martin Wisckol at the OC Regis ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Ex-Candidate Tan Nguyen Found Guilty of Lying Comment by UNCLEBILL: his only mistake was not being a black panther- then he would not have been prosecuted- si se puede!Comment by BEE R: I hope the same prosecutor will go after the "emigrados"- who vote illegally and 'frequently' i ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
The Top 2010 OC Story That Didn't Make the Register's Year-End List
Veteran Orange County Register reporter Martin Wisckol has named his "Top 10" political events of 2010.It's a thorough list, except for one thing: it omitted arguably the top local political story of the year.Oops.
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February 14, 2011
Tan Nguyen Gets Prison for Anti-Loretta Sanchez Vote Scheme
Tan Nguyen wins free housingTan Nguyen--the bizarre Little Saigon political figure who couldn't decide if he was a Republican or a Democrat--at least had one question resolved today: his future housing situation.Federal Judge David O. Carter has sentenced Nguyen to spend 366 days in prison follow ... More >>

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