The Orange County Register is reporting that Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach was arrested on suspicion of DUI after crashing into a light pole. The pole knocked out power to approximately 300 homes. Councilman Quach said that he is willing to accept all responsibility.
Quach said he is remorseful about what happened and will take “full responsibility for everything.”
“I got into a very bad car accident,” he said this afternoon. “I’m hurting physically and emotionally right now. But I’m extremely relieved and so grateful that no one else was hurt in this accident.”
Quach said he was on his way home after having dinner with friends when the crash occurred.
“I think I must have nodded off and hit the pole,” he said. “I wish it’s something I can undo, but I can’t. We’re all human. As far as I’m concerned, it will never happen again.”
Quach said he did not submit to a breath test, but did take a blood test and is awaiting results.
“Whatever the legal, financial and political consequences of what happened, I’m willing to face them,” he said. “I don’t believe what happened will affect my abilities as a councilman.”
That all sounds good; unfortunately for the people of Westminster, it does not appear as though his actions reflect his words. Councilman Quach refused to submit to a breathalyzer test. If Councilman Quach was really willing to “face the consequences” then he would have agreed to a breathalyzer. I am not critizing Andy Quach the individual, since it is his right to refuse a breathalyzer, but I am critizing Andy Quach the Councilman since I believe that elected officials should be held to a higher standard. I am not saying that the Councilman is guilty but refusing a breathalyzer comes across as though he is hiding something about what happened earlier in the evening at “dinner with his friends.”
Since Councilman Quach said he wants to face all the financial consequences, I would like to help his constituents get in touch with the Councilman. In the event that any of their food was spoiled in their refrigerators last night or they would like to voice any other concern, I am including his city e-mail address.
Councilman Quach should resign from his City Council seat if the blood test results show that he was, in fact, DUI.
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Good thing the Angels were out of town! They can’t afford to let Andy kill any more of their young pitchers.
He ought to resign ASAP from the Westminster City Council!
I wonder if Van Tran told him to reject the breathalyzer test?
Over on “Blue County” Chris Prevatt, from the Janny wing of the DPOC, is engaged in some rumor mongering regarding the Quach incident. He has no evidence to support his innuendos.
This is the same Chris Prevatt that threw a hissy fit when Art posted and allowed comments about the death of Noah Krom. All of which turned out to be true.
He is now engaged in posting unsubstantiated rumors without any back up. He has no witnesses to the accident, but that doesn’t stop Chris from running with it.
The folks at “Blue County” once again show what hypocrites they are. I would expect Dan C. to be demanding Chris take it down or some sort of an apology for the posting of unsubstantiated rumors. However we all know that won’t happen.
The moral of the story is, if the folks at “Blue County” don’t like someone you can post whatever you like. However if you so much as dare question someone they shill for, let the hissy fits begin.
Once again Prevatt shows his true “Janny” colors by attacking one of her political enemies, Andy Quach.
The moral of the story is, if the folks at “Blue County” don’t like someone you can post whatever you like. However if you so much as dare question someone they shill for, let the hissy fits begin.
I know how it feels, Mr. Mill:)
I was banned from “Liberal” OC” for aparently copying and pasting comments from there onto here thereby constituting a copyright infringement according to dan C.
can you get any more yellow bellied than that?
FYI: Not taking the breathalizer doesn’t mean you have something to hide, it means you don’t trust the machine. The blood test is a more accurate indicator for BAC (BLood Alcohol Content). The breathalizer (aka: the “EPAS”) has a false positive read of about plus or minus .02 percent. Therefore, the guy manned-up.
There is no point in speculating about anything at this point. Let’s wait for the blood test results.
Mr. Albat, what do you think the Councilman should do if the blood test results show that he was driving with his BAC over the legal limit?
Like I said, I think he should resign.
enough for us.
We don’t want to hear anything about that TEAM.
We deserve to have good lives in Little Saigon.
I know Andy personally and worked with him His collegue and I know someday he would embrarass the Vietnamese community, and sure he did. Andy has done other things worse than this, including putting down Vietnamese elderly, including his parents saying” they are too slow and should not live in America” He should never be in the human service field.People can write to city of Westminster to have himm remove.