The partisan hacks at the Red County and Liberal OC blogs have united again (something that has become increasingly common) in attacking Hugh Nguyen, who is running for Orange County Clerk-Recorder, against incumbent Tom Daly, a career politician who happens to be a Democrat.
Are the Red County and Liberal OC bloggers risking alienating Vietnamese voters with their ridiculous attacks on Nguyen?
This is not exactly a good strategy for either of these blogs. Red County is backing Assemblyman Van Tran for the 47th Congressional District. (And Tran is supporting Hugh Nguyen!). Tran is in a tough primary with businessman Quang Pham and he can ill afford any blowback generated by his pals at Red County.
Over at the Liberal OC, they have been busy pandering for Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, but she too, like Tran, needs Viet voters. She is facing a challenge from independent candidate Cecilia Iglesias. Sanchez will move on to the general, but then she will have to face either Tran or Pham, and Iglesias will be there to siphon off Latino votes from Sanchez.
It is funny that the Liberal OC bloggers are so rabid about Daly. He is just the latest in a long line of old white guys that they have shilled for – remember Joe Dunn and Tom Umberg? And now their party is fielding the even older Jerry Brown, as the ultimate retread for Governor.
Meanwhile, Red County is destroying what was left of their reputation as an ostensibly Republican blog by shilling for Daly, who is a lifelong Democrat and who enjoys the support of big labor. What can Red County publisher Chip Hanlon be thinking? Of course he may be distracted by his ongoing battle with our newest blogger, Sgt. York.
Chisme has it that Red County is losing steam with advertisers and that their darling Meg Whitman may even pull her ad from them. That would be a wise move on her part!
You have to wonder if all of these ridiculous hacks are attacking Nguyen merely because we support him, here at the Orange Juice blog. If so, that is pretty stupid. He is the best qualified candidate for the job and he wants to undo the waste and corruption that has been the legacy of the rudderless Daly. That is why we support him!
I think Van Tran and Loretta Sanchez better have a little heart to heart with the boys at Red County and Liberal OC before they cause a ton of damage in the Viet community…which is unanimous in its support of Hugh Nguyen.
In fact, Chairman of the OC Board of Supervisors Janet Nguyen should also pull Chris Prevatt and Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham into her offiice. Bad enough that she is doing nothing to help Nguyen, but now both her red and blue Jannies are attacking Hugh. This won’t help her when Jose Solorio runs against her in a few years…
If Hugh Nguyen is so sure that the Clerk Recorder’s office is being mismanaged, over budget, has low employee morale (how is that measured?) and generally in such awful shape, as a County manager, why hasn’t he called for an audit? He works for Tom Mauk, right? Have his concerns been documented? Put into a letter to the Register?
How are his claims just now coming out?
#1,
I spoke to him today. He is going to personally review their budgets for the last four years. I also asked him to compare the size of Daly’s budgets to other county clerk-recorders that serve similar sized populations.
Much of the scandal in Daly’s office is only now coming to light. Prepare for ever worse…
Matt Cunningham outed sex-abuse victims.
Art, one of our commentors pointed out that the issue isn’t that Daly is “over budget” but that his budget is is too big because his revenue is too high. And of course there’s no telling how much of that surplus has been wasted on phony no-bid contracts with friendly “consultants.”
Umberg, The other carpetbagger, who cheated on his wife.
At least Dunn legitimately moved to SA BEFORE ANNOUNCING.
As for Brown, We’ve seen what six and a half years of an outsider has done, I am all for an elderstatesman.
I’m confused. When did the “Lib OC boys “attack” Hugh Nguyen? From what I can see Prevatt wrote that what Nguyen said about Daly’s budget was false. He said it was either a lie or that Nguyen couldn’t read a financial report.
Hugh Nguyen talks a lot, but gives no specifics or evidence to support his claims. The one time he did, the facts didn’t support what he said.
Since when is pointing out the truth an attack?
#6,
Prevatt clearly attacked Nguyen in his post. I knew Prevatt had an issue with Latinos. Now we know he has an issue with our Viet brothers too.
for six bucks you can file a lien on any of their homes, no questions asked, no proof needed.
Renee Ramirez- Enjoy your last days as the Asst. Clerk-Recorder because once Hugh Nguyen takes over your GONE!! You know he dosen’t like you after what you did to his wife eight years ago. I ALMOST FEEL BAD FOR YOU!!
Stop picking on my girls at the Fib OC.