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September 23, 2007
Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: That Sneaky Chuck DeVore
Doctor No: The public hospital crisis has placed nearly two dozen private hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties “in dire financial straits and in danger of bankruptcy or closure,” according to a depressing report in today’s Times. Reporters Daniel Costello and Susannah Rosenblatt found ... More >>
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February 6, 2008
Firecrackers, Rats and Some GOP guy's Mansion
On a cool evening in the heart of Little Saigon loud firecrackers periodically exploded as Vietnamese Americans celebrated the coming of Tet (Vietnamese New Year) and something that should comfort Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle: the launching of the Year of the Rat. Of course, I'm kidding. According t ... More >>
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February 6, 2008
Election Night photos
Photographer Jack Gould hung out at Pangea with the Dems last night, then visited Obama headquarters and this parking lot in Westminster near Assemblyman Van Tran's event (which he couldn't find). Check his photos out over here.
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April 11, 2008
Hoa Van Tran on Immigration
Yesterday, I stumbled (literally: a Bloody Mary, bottle of soju from Ami Sushi, and a double Makers Mark were in my bloodstream) upon the Orange County Young Democrat mixer at Jason's Downtown in SanTana. The keynote speaker was Hoa Van Tran, the one Democrat running in the First Supervisorial Distr ... More >>
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September 7, 2006
Commie Girl
Freedom Costs a Buck-O-Five: Ladies and gentlemen, your Labor Day weekend!
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July 14, 2005
Tax Man Tran
Republican Van Tran talks tough on taxes, spends freely
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February 5, 2004
Letters
Republican Van Tran talks tough on taxes, spends freely
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May 6, 2009
Will Little Saigon Bring Down Loretta Sanchez?
Sanchez Slayer?North Orange County state Assemblyman Van Tran announced thru the Register's Martin Wisckol today that he hopes to be the 2010 Republican challenger to OC's lone Democratic member of congress: Loretta Sanchez. The news is as surprising as a six-hour traffic jam on the 55 or four-year ... More >>
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August 7, 2009
Friday Film Funnies Fun: Van Tran, Assemblymember and Police Obstructor
Don't believe the Red County gang: state assemblymember and Little Saigon don Van Tran had next to no chance to unseat incumbent Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in next year's 47th District congressional race. All Tran had on his side were mostly Vietnamese voters and all Mexican-haters, while Loretta ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
Tran, Harman and Mansoor: Abuse 'Em and They Won't Sue You
Van Tran, Tom Harman and Allan Mansoor--together at last.If state Sen. Tom Harman (R-Huntington Beach), Assemblyman Van Tran (R-Costa Mesa) and Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor get hit by a reckless driver as they pull into South Coast Plaza later this morning, do not expect them or their insurance ... More >>
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February 21, 2010
Did Van Tran Steal California Conservative Group's Endorsement?
(photo by Christopher Victorio)Newcomer Pham (right) came within one vote of blocking Tran's (left) CRA endorsementInside a packed Costa Mesa hotel ballroom yesterday, Orange County's most enthusiastic conservative political activists met to hear candidate speeches and issue endorsements while pa ... More >>
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February 23, 2010
Van Tran's Sunday Bloody Sunday
(photo by Christopher Victorio)One of Van Tran's two facesOn Sunday--the same day the Weekly broke news of Republican allegations that Van Tran cheated to win a California Republican Assembly endorsement, the Orange County state assemblyman who hopes to face Democrat Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez ... More >>
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July 11, 2010
Sunday News Notes
Sunday highlights from the local media include:NEW MOONINGThe annual mooning of Amtrak train passengers happened yesterday in Laguna Hills and the OC Register was there to take pictures and video of the "nearly 100" participants. For the front page of the local section story, the Reg published a ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Van Tran Tries to Get Gustavo's Vote--HAHAHAHAHAHA!
I have trashed Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez mucho over the years, and will continue to do so, as I find her ineffective, too obsessed with her skin color, and hardly the liberal--let alone progressive--that her apostles make her out to be while trashing DREAM Act students. But Loretta is at leas ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
Will Allan Mansoor and Van Tran Attend Barbara Coe's Barbecue This Saturday?
Mansoor: The Egyptian cousin of Alfred E. Neuman?The next coming months will provide much political merriment in local elections, specifically in regards to Van Tran (trying to displace longtime Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez) and Costa Migra Mayor Allan Mansoor, who is facing Democrat Phu Nguyen ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Loretta Sanchez on Univisión: "Vietnamese" Trying to Take Her Congressional Seat Away from Democrats
Sanchez: Needs a better helmet...The Van Tran for Congress campaign put out a press release late last week claiming that their Moby Dick, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, blamed President Barack Obama for her dismal poll ratings in her appearance last week on Univisión's Al Punto program. If only! ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Van Tran Goes Positive . . . Almost
Christopher VictorioAssemblyman Van TranFor those of you wondering if Van Tran's campaign would be based solely on negative attacks featuring Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez as a Democratic bimbo/whore, the answer came today in mail boxes.Tran, the Little Saigon state assemblyman who face term limi ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Loretta Sanchez Lamely Tries to Take Back Her Vietnamese-Conspiracy Remark, Van Tran Campaign Lamely Piles On
It seems the rest of the world has finally realized what we broke on Monday--that Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez seethed that nameless "Vietnamese" are trying to take away her seat away from her nearly two weeks ago on Univisión's Al Punto program and give it to opponent Van Tran. Of course, her ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Can Somebody Wake Up Van Tran?
Saying "no" is exhaustingI'd been wondering when my favorite Van Tran photo would appear in a campaign ad and this morning Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez obliged. No, it's not the one of Tran hugging Mike Carona in a photograph that recorded the Republican assemblyman happily accepting a real sher ... More >>
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September 25, 2010
Van Tran Accuses Loretta Sanchez of Trying to Start "Race War," But What About His Anti-Mexican/Anti-Gay Warriors?
Tran: A bit of a RAHOWA man himself...To quote George Takei, "Oh my." Our little story about Loretta Sanchez railing against "Vietnamese" trying to take her congressional seat away from her and the Democrats has gone national, making the pages of the New York Times (with a proper citation for us ... More >>
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September 26, 2010
Sunday News Notes
News highlights include:Meg Whitman's cash is buying her second placeCathleen Decker of the LA Times reports that new polling shows Jerry Brown gaining a "slight edge" over Meg Whitman and that Barbara Boxer has "opened a wider margin over GOP nominee Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate. ... More >>
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September 26, 2010
Van Tran on Univisión: More Mexican than Loretta Sanchez, Can't Answer Whether He Favors Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
California State Assemblymember Van Tran appeared on Univisión's Al Punto program today, the Spanish-language version of the major network's Sunday-morning blabberfests. But those who no hablar now probably know it for being the setting where Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez--the OC GOP's Moby Dick ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Orly Taitz Endorses Van Tran and Sharron Angle, Chills With Eric Cantor and Chris Cox
If you've been sitting on the sidelines of this year's election campaigns, waiting for advice from someone you know and trust so as to figure out who to vote for... you're going to be kept waiting. In other news, though, Orly Taitz, the Laguna Niguel dentist and lawyer whose big hobby is suing Ba ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
More Evidence Van Tran Has Loretta Sanchez Sweating
An OC-bound ClintonBringing out feisty liberal Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) several weeks ago was just the warm up act of Rep. Loretta Sanchez's efforts to excite her Democratic voter base in central Orange County where Republican challenger Van Tran is hoping to pull an upset. Sanchez is brin ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Van Tran & Loretta Sanchez Finally Agree on Something
Tran (left) and Sanchez (right)After weeks of bitter attacks on the other candidate, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Van Tran, her Republican challenger in November, finally have reached agreement on a single topic.That topic: There's a candidate in this allegedly narrow race whose top priority ... More >>
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October 2, 2010
Whose Fantasy Univisión Interview is Correct--the Loretta Sanchez One, or Van Tran's?
Loretta: Cannot help herself from saying dumb thingsYesterday, supporters of State Assemblymember Van Tran sent out an email further piling on Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (whom Tran and the entirety of America's GOP is desperately trying to beat) for her idiotic ramblings on Univisión's Al Pun ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
Five Things the National Media Should Note About Van Tran in their Parachute Profiles of the Sanchez-Tran Congressional Race
The national media is starting to send its reporters to our sordid little burb, specifically the 47th Congressional District, where incumbent Loretta Sanchez is facing her first true challenger ever in State Assemblymember Van Tran. Politico did an okay job; the Los Angeles Times published a r ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Loretta Sanchez Says "Yes" to Debate With Van Tran
Loretta Sanchez's campaign announced this morning that the Democratic congresswoman has agreed to debate her Republican challenger Van Tran on KOCE.The announcement contained no date because Sanchez is waiting to see if Tran accepts, according to Caroline Hogan, a campaign spokeswoman.
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October 6, 2010
Loretta Sanchez Pounds Van Tran Again For Sleeping At His Desk
A different sleeping robotVan 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 econ ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Van Tran Has Had Enough!
Tran: More than hinting that Sanchez is a bimboAfter 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 ... More >>
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October 9, 2010
Dana Rohrabacher, Gulp, Sings at Van Tran Rally
It was billed as a Tea Party rally but today's event in a Garden Grove public park was actually nothing more than a Republican Party pep rally for Van Tran, the Republican hoping to unseat Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez on Nov. 2.Don't believe it? Well, explain why Scott Baugh, the chai ... More >>
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October 10, 2010
Sunday News Notes
Happy 10-10-10 to you.Weekend news highlights from various media sources include:Fred Phelps thinks he knows whyYou can thank UC Irvine researchers for this good news: The future "Big One" earthquake along the San Andreas fault will be much worse and much sooner than previously expected, accordin ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
Loretta Sanchez Launches Positive TV Ad
Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySanchez says she's one of usAn emotionally bruised Van Tran can sigh in relief.Loretta Sanchez's new TV ad in Orange County's most heated congressional race is all about her. It doesn't even mention Tran, her Republican challenger, or him sleeping on the job, ignorin ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
Loretta Sanchez and Van Tran Slug It Out At KOCE Debate
Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyVan Tran showed confidence todayYou might have thought Lindsay Lohan was in town.More than 30 reporters--including at least two from Los Angeles television stations--packed into the KOCE-TV studio in Huntington Beach late this afternoon to watch Congresswoman Loretta ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Van Tran and Loretta Sanchez Debate Debate
Remember Moxley's blog post about the candidates debate in the county's most closely watched congressional race?Loretta Sanchez and Van Tran Slug It Out at KOCE DebateIt's safe to say the respective campaigns saw the outcome differently.
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October 15, 2010
Bill Clinton: OC Needs Loretta Sanchez in Congress
Photo by R. Scott MoxleyBill Clinton visited OC todayAccompanied by a decent-sized Secret Service detail, Bill Clinton came to Orange County this afternoon to offer advice.The 42nd president of the United States told several hundred people (and at least 60 reporters) gathered under a cloudy sky a ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Van Tran Has Already Beaten Loretta Sanchez in One Race: Public Freudian Expressions!
Fliers, mailers, posters, and even television ads currently litter the 47th Congressional District where incumbent Loretta Sanchez is battling Republican candidate (and currently State assemblyman) Van Tran in OC's political fight of the decade. Although Sanchez has far more campaign money, it se ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Can Van Tran Get Loretta Sanchez Fired?
[Moxley Confidential] Republican challenger says he will boot OC's lone Democrat from Congress
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October 24, 2010
Sunday News Notes: Reg Slams Loretta Sanchez
Local news highlights include:Register against Loretta Sanchez but drags out marijuana stanceThe editorial staff of the OC Register has declared itself for congressional candidate Van Tran, a Republican; U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, a Republican; and Whitman, yep, a Republican. "From our ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Maybe Loretta Sanchez IS in Trouble After All
I've done quite a few media interviews, both on and off the record, over the past month about the Loretta Sanchez-Van Tran congressional race, and I always answer the inevitable question about Tran's chances thusly: no. No way. No how. Screw the polls: the demographics (both political and ethnic) ... More >>
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October 31, 2010
Why Should I Vote for Loretta Sanchez? Apologists: A Chance to Win Gustavo's Vote for Her!
Whenever it's time to fill my ballot, I usually like to sprinkle my votes to the Green and Libertarian parties (with an occasional nod to the Peace and Freedom freaks)--usually because the politics of those two groups better fit my personal stances, but also because I refuse to vote for any OC-ba ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
A Night to Dismember the Democrats
Election 2010: Scenes from some of the few races where Dems didn't get tsunami'd
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November 5, 2010
Some Music to Listen to While the Loretta Sanchez-Van Tran Race Gets Decided
Most any rational commentator has called the 47th Congressional District race for incumbent Loretta Sanchez, but hold on to your Gretsky, Lo-Lo! The Orange County Registrar of Voters say they still need to go through about 30,000 more votes in the district, and betcha bánh mìs to tortas that ch ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Loretta Sanchez Beats Van Tran, Just Like We Told You She Would
It's a week after the 2010 elections, but State Senator Van Tran has finally conceded defeat against incumbent Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. I'll have a much-more detailed analysis later, but I do want to take this opportunity to say:WE TOLD YOU SO. For months, in interview after interview, in c ... More >>
Columns
November 11, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
It's a week after the 2010 elections, but State Senator Van Tran has finally conceded defeat against incumbent Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. I'll have a much-more detailed analysis later, but I do want to take this opportunity to say:WE TOLD YOU SO. For months, in interview after interview, in c ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Van Tran Filed Inaccurate Pre-Election Disclosure Reports
Tran: OopsIn his energetic but losing attempt to unseat Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Little Saigon state Assemblyman Van Tran under reported pre-election money pouring into his campaign, according to amended financial disclosure reports filed at the Federal Election Commission (FEC).Size of the ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Van Tran Move Makes Sacramento Bee's "Worst" List
Van Tran There's no doubt that three months before the November election polling showed Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez might be in danger of losing to Little Saigon state Assemblyman Van Tran.To thwart Tran's potential rise, Sanchez--already known as a tireless campaigner--doubled he ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Pundits Already Saying New Redistricting Will Hurt Loretta Sanchez--HA!
Sanchez: Always ready for battleMan, it's always a hoot reading the premature obituaries written about Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Took Two Dead Girls to Make Her Sponsor the DREAM Act) over the past 15 years, and the latest batch is already starting today with the release of draft maps show ... More >>
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