For 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 limits in Sacramento, sent a two-sided glossy campaign piece that touts his “commitment:”
As a party robot, he will obey OC Republican bosses or perish.
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Kidding.
(Not really.)
He says in the ad that voters should select him in an upset because he'd:
1. Stop the wasteful spending.
2. Cut taxes so that small businesses can create jobs.
3. Reduce excessive regulations on small business.
4. Stand up to the special interests in Washington.
On the other side, the ad says, “Van Tran: Fighting to create jobs and grow the economy.”
That portion shows a series of pictures of Tran–young immigrant from
Vietnam, laughing husband/father (with a gorgeous wife and kids) and politician listening intently to two white guys.
There's also a brief letter from Tran reminding voters of his love of freedom and small businesses.
He calls himself a “100% Job Creator,” a title he says the California Chamber of Commerce bestowed upon him.
But he couldn't help himself. He included a slam on Sanchez by
Republican Party activist Gwendolyn Dyrud of Santa Ana. Next to what
appears to be a police mug shot of Dyrud, she's written that Sanchez
“lies” and is “a career politician” who is “running an ugly negative
campaign to avoid talking about her failed record.”
“Van Tran is not another career politician,” Dyrud writes. “He's a family man and a small business owner.”
Tran is a central pawn in the GOP's hope to take back control of Congress from the Democrats.
–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.