The last round of redistricting deliberations has split Little Saigon into two Congressional districts – and then splits the Viet vote even further by putting Fountain Valley into a third district.
This is good news for the incumbent in the 47th Congressional District, Loretta Sanchez, who now will barely have much of Little Saigon in her [...]
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Little Saigon gets redistricted into two congressional districts
Posted by Admin on July 30th, 2011
Posted in anaheim, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Democratic Party, elections, garden grove, Little Saigon, Orange County, Politics, republican party, Santa Ana, Supervisor Janet Nguyen, vietnamese 
Tags: 47th congressional district, little saigon, long beach, loretta sanchez, redistricting, van tran 
8 Comments »Rep. Sanchez to take a tour of Little Saigon’s Business District
Posted by Admin on July 8th, 2011
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Representing California’s 47th Congressional District
MEDIA ADVISORY, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 8, 2011
MEDIA CONTACT: Adrienne Watson 202-309-0825
REP. LORETTA SANCHEZ TO TOUR LITTLE SAIGON BUSINESS DISTRICT
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-47), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Vietnam and member of the bipartisan-bicameral Joint Economic Committee will join Vietnamese American business leaders and members of the Vietnamese-American [...]
Santa Ana’s Cafe Lu may benefit from Garden Grove’s crackdown on Viet cafes
Posted by Admin on July 1st, 2011
Garden Grove’s Vietnamese coffeehouses now have until the weekend to fully comply with an ordinance that went into effect last Friday, according to the L.A. Times.
The new ordinance demands that “Windows must be untinted. Gambling machines must be removed. Cigarettes must be tossed. And those little pasties adorning the nipples of waitresses must be replaced with [...]
Redistricting may split Santa Ana and Anaheim into two Senate districts
Posted by Admin on June 8th, 2011
The California Redistricting Commission is considering splitting Santa Ana away from Anaheim, into two new State Senate Districts. Currently, both of these cities are in the 34th State Senate District, which is represented by State Senator Lou Correa.
If you look at the graphic above, you will see that the new Santa Ana District will include [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, anaheim, buena park, california, Democratic Party, elections, Fullerton, garden grove, Latinos, Orange County, Politics, republican party, Santa Ana, Stanton, Westminster Tags: 34th State Senate District, anaheim, fullerton, little saigon, lou correa, redistricting, Santa Ana 3 Comments »Nam Pham running to rebuild Little Saigon monument?
Posted by Admin on October 20th, 2010
Our friends over at the Bolsavik blog have an interesting post on the candidacy of Ward 6 wannabe Nam Pham that expands on the Gustavo Arrellano’s story about Pham helping a group of “white residents” prevent an “all-Mexican” city council. Pham himself chose to comment on the post and it appears that race [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Councilman Sal Tinajero, elections, Politics, Santa Ana, vietnamese Tags: little saigon, nam pham, Sal Tinajero, Santa Ana, ward 6 2 Comments »Santa Ana Parks and Rec Commissioner Ken Nguyen honored at Council Meeting
Posted by Admin on July 6th, 2010
Santa Ana Parks and Recreation Commissioner Kenneth Nguyen
Santa Ana Parks and Recreation Commissioner Kenneth Nguyen was honored by Councilman Vince Sarmiento and his peers on the City Council tonight for being elected to serve in External Affairs with a Vietnamese community organization. According to Sarmiento, this organization held a vote and 18,000 members cast ballots, [...]
Will Vietnamese voters determine the next Mayor of Santa Ana?
Posted by Admin on July 3rd, 2010
Alfredo Amezcua, the local lawyer who is challenging Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido in November’s General Election, has gathered up essentially the same coalition that backed Councilwoman Michele Martinez when she took on Pulido, in 2008. We know how that worked out.
So the question is, how will Amezcua grow this coalition such that he will [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, Councilman Vince Sarmiento, Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez, Democratic Party, elections, mayor miguel pulido, Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez, Politics, Santa Ana, vietnamese Tags: al amezcua, Claudia Alvarez, kenneth nguyen, little saigon, miguel pulido, Santa Ana, vietnamese voters, Vince Sarmiento No Comments »Politicians show up at the Little Saigon Tet Festival
Posted by Admin on February 13th, 2010
I visited the Tet Festival Parade today, over in Westminster, and took a lot of pictures, which you can enjoy in the slideshow above.
A number of protesters did show up to back up the gay Vietnamese activists in the parade, but they didn’t cause any trouble. Everyone just looked happy to be there. Click here [...]
Posted in assemblyman jose solorio, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Democratic Party, Orange County, Santa Ana, State Senator Lou Correa, Supervisor Janet Nguyen, Veterans, vietnamese Tags: bolsavik, dina nguyen, garden grove, gay activists, homosexuals, lgbt, little saigon, tet festival parade, vietnamese americans, vietnamese interfaith council, westminster 5 Comments »
