Meanwhile, his campaign and finance manager for the Vietnamese community, Cuong Bui, just sent out a mass email denouncing those Vietnamese-Americans who voted against Van Tran as Chinese sympathizers who are traitors to the Vietnamese people and their cause. LSI assumes Van Tran is trying to lecture the voters and put them into shame using the anti-Chinese sentiment caused by the 1000 years of struggle against the Chinese invaders who always wanted to subjugate its tiny neighbor, Vietnam.
If Van Tran ends up losing about 6,000 votes, he deserves to lecture the Vietnamese-American voters who voted against him. After all, if the majority of them had voted for him, he could have won it, especially with the low Latino turn-out This is his base and yet from his reaction so far post-election, he is angry that they did not turn out to vote for him as he had expected them to.
The Republican Party leadership right now has already thinking about the next candidate to challenge Sanchez in 2012. Will Van Tran run again? Or could it be the well-received and popularVietnamese-American, former Marine pilot Quang Pham, who voluntary pulled out of the Republican primary because he did not want to cause divisiveness within the community and the Republican Party in general. Some OC pundits considered Quang Pham to be a better candidate against Loretta Sanchez since he has a clean slate and people tend to vote for outsider in this year of the anti-establishment.
