In a battle of mostly for Vietnamese-Amerian votes, political novice Richard Nguyen beat out the incumbent Al Hoang for Houston City Council District F.
Nguyen received 3,160 votes while Hoang garnered 2,964 votes. Less than 12% of the registered voters went to the poll. In District F has about 67,000 registered voters and Vietnamese-American voters is 15% of the total.
Al Hoang served for 2 terms since 2009. He lost partly because of his controversial dialogues with the Vietnamese government and his heavy handed tactics in dealing with the Vietnamese-Americans whom voted him in the office in 2009. His defeat was a referendum of the Vietnamese-American community that does not want to be jerk around.
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3 comments:
David vs Goliath ! Trash collector vs big-time political operative. And the trash collector wins !
Thanks voters!
U.S. Elections 2013: Vietnamese-Americans Reject Pro-Communist Stance Of Al Hoang (Hoàng Duy Hùng)
Nguyen’s win represents a mini referendum on Al Hoang’s pro-communist stance by the Vietnamese community.
http://eyedrd.org/2013/11/u-s-elections-2013-vietnamese-americans-reject-pro-communist-stance-al-hoang-hoang-duy-hung.html#more-21553
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