I'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 sheriff's badge from the crooked sheriff before the FBI and IRS arrested our top cop.
This other photo is perhaps worse.
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It shows a scarf-clad, double-chinned Tran leaning back in his chair,
eyes tightly shut and probably asleep in the state capitol's assembly
chamber in Sacramento.
You can easily imagine he's snoring.
Today's 32-second Sanchez ad pounces on the image.
A
narrator details California economic woes and then asks, “What is
Assemblyman Van Tran doing? Nothing. Van Tran is sleeping on the job.
Wake up, Van Tran!”
The words are supplemented by a soundtrack of a man snoring.
Ouch.
In fairness, Tran was probably asleep because he hadn't yet received additional instructions from his Republican Party bosses.
In
the only competitive congressional race in Orange County, Tran is
reportedly within two or three polling percentage points of incumbent
Democrat Sanchez.
–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.