Why is Claudio Gallegos going after moderate Republican Quang X. Pham?
Liberal OC blogger Claudio Gallegos, who oversaw the stillborn Sunny D blog, put up an obnoxious post yesterday ripping moderate Republican congressional candidate Quang X. Pham.
The premise of Claudio’s attack is that Pham supporter Gen. William Lyon allegedly ran cover for pedophile priests. If he did so, I don’t think any of us should be terribly surprised. There are a lot of uber-Catholic Republicans in Orange County, including former Party Chairman Tom Fuentes and Red County blogger Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham, who have done questionable things in service to their church.
But what the hell does that have to do with Pham? Claudio wrote “We all know Loretta Sanchez would never cavort with this sort of ilk and I am sure if Quang is her opponent, will expose his actions to the voting families of the 47th Congressional District.”
Really? Hasn’t Loretta been known to “cavort” at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion? And isn’t she “cavorting” with a married defense lobbyist? In fact her sister Linda recently married another lobbyist after he knocked her up. Does any of that remind you of disgraced former Assemblyman Mike Duvall? He got in trouble for “cavorting” with lobbyists, why is Claudio giving the Sanchez sisters a free pass for doing the SAME THING?
In fact Pham mentioned at his recent fundraiser that the Sanchez sisters have made history. They are the first sisters in Congress to both be investigated by the House Ethics Committee at the same time. Nice…
Claudio also wrote “As for Quang, I know he may be a thorn in Van Tran’s side currently, but I refuse to sit back and give anyone a free pass when it comes to the Catholic Church abuse scandal.”
The irony is that Claudio’s own fellow Liberal OC bloggers regularly defend Jerbal even though he outed the names of molestation victims – while he was shilling for John Urell, a monsignor who, like Lyon, covered up for pedophile priests.
The bottom line however is that Claudio is stupidly attacking the moderate Pham when the REAL enemy is the Mexican-hater Van Tran! If Pham can defeat Tran in the primary, Tran will be FINISHED in Orange County politics. But instead of helping the moderate Libertarian-leaning Pham Claudio is attacking him.
It is a fact that Claudio and his fellow Liberal OC bloggers are longtime Jannies - acolytes of Republican Supervisor Janet Nguyen. Janet even attended Claudio’s birthday party at the seedy Quill Bar a couple of years ago. Could it be that Janet is pulling Claudio’s chain even now? I would imagine that she is threatened by Pham, who is a very well respected businessman in the local Vietnamese American community.
If this is true I find it disgusting. Janet should stay out of the Tran versus Pham contest if she is not going to back either one. And going after Pham is B.S. But many of us know that Janet is jealous of Pham and wishes she had the spine to take on Loretta.
Perhaps I am making too much of this. Claudio’s lame p0st has merited exactly zero comments and it is already buried on page two of the Liberal OC…
And Pham is doing great. He recently announced that he has raised over $100,000. He is well on his way to taking out Tran. Then on to Loretta…
Maybe agreed to help pay his bar tab at the Quill.
Sure is funny the selective memory these guys have. They regularly cavort and cover for pedo-apologist Matt Cunningham who outted the names of sex abuse victims.
I will be supporting Loretta Sanchez, but I find it disgusting that the LibOC would be doing Van Tran’s dirty work and attacking his opponent.
Who knows if Janet didn’t offer to help Claudio out financially, maybe Tran did. Lord knows he can use the help.