Supervisor Janet Nguyen endangered her child during the Fiestas Patrias Parade

UPDATED:  Ruh roh! http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/09/janet_nguyen_supervisor_car_se.php

When I saw Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen motor through the Fiestas Patrias Parade this past Sunday, in Downtown Santa Ana, I was taken by her bleating “Viva Mexico” and missed something else that I should have caught.

Nguyen endanger her child and broke the law.  Look at the picture above – she was holding one of her boys in her lap, with no seat belt, no safety seat and with only one arm to secure the toddler.

Here is what the State of California has to say about this:

  • Children under the age of 8 must be secured in a car seat or booster seat in the back seat.
  • Children under the age of 8 who are 4′ 9″ or taller may be secured by a safety belt in the back seat.
  • Children who are 8 years and over shall be properly secured in an appropriate child passenger restraint system or safety belt.
  • Passengers who are 16 years of age and over are subject to California’s Mandatory Seat Belt law.
  • Buckling up is the single most effective thing you can do to protect yourself in a crash. Also, seat belts are the best defense against impaired, aggressive, and distracted drivers.

It is outrageous that an elected official would break the law, in the open air, at a public event, but that is precisely what Nguyen did.  She used her kid as a prop.  She did the same thing when he was a baby and she was holding him like a football at a Tet Parade (see the picture below).

Shame on the Santa Ana Police Department for not pulling her over and writing her a ticket on the spot!

Nguyen is a candidate for the State Senate in 2014.  How can she ask for our votes when she openly breaks the law and endangers her own son?

Click here to see more pictures of Nguyen endangering her child at the Fiestas Patrias parade.

Art Pedroza Editor
Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.
Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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  • do you really think the police are going to pull over the mayor? some libertarian you are! I bet the corruption runs all the way to the garbage men!

    • The Mayor had his kids inside a stagecoach. Janet was the only politician at the parade who chose to endanger a child. No one else used their kid as a dangling prop.

      Libertarians don't endanger their kids. But Janet does.

  • Hey if you don't like her I respect you for it. Its a PARADE!!!!! And have you ever heard about the "spirit of the law" and having discretion and common sense. If SAPD had stopped her that officer would have been in deep trouble. Police stops lots of people every day and do not write tickets to all of them. Instead lets do 30 day impounds like we used to in S.A. No license, you car got impounded for 30 days. Now, thanks to our "sanctuary" council and some people in police management you have to give them 20 mins to call someone who is license. NOW that is dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • And maybe we should cite all those people who drive/ride antique cars (from the early 1900's) that don't have seat belts....And the adult and kids that ride in floats made up on top of flatbed trucks...and then we can deport all the illegal aliens watching the parade......PLEASE!!!!

    • Big difference when you're talking about adults and teens versus toddlers. What Nguyen did was deplorable. She used her child as a prop.

  • Did you miss that there appears to be some kind of a sticker on the windshield?! What if a sudden gust of wind blew those balloons into the view of the driver?!! Why does the driver not have both hands on the wheel?!!! Do those tires look properly inflated?!!!!

    • That driver is Janet's husband, Tom Bonikowski. It is worth noting that when he owned the Lee's Sandwiches in Stanton it had one of the worst food safety records in Orange County. I suppose it makes sense that he would endanger his own child when he clearly didn't give a damn about public safety either.

  • My "new" favorite part of the story is that your nemeses and "Jannie's" on another website are picking this and Cokers posts apart. Here's the funny part: If this was Stephen Choi, they'd have pictures from space condemning him.

    It appears, like Lomeli and Tardif (AKA Junior, Skalleywag, Semus etc..) just can't stay away from you. These guys are infatuated with you and EVERYTHING you post. I bet the Orvine guy has a Google tracker assigned. Sucha sad life. He should concentrate on his family and his own life......If he had one.

    • You would think that Janet's liberal friends would have turned on her by now after she started attacking labor - specifically the OCEA.

      • This is why our country is going down the drain. We are becoming a sissy state. Are we no longer allowed to do anything risky at all? Also, two key points: nothing happened and it is not your kid!

        • Protecting kids doesn't make one a sissy. And if her kid had gotten hurt you know she would have sued the city, costing taxpayers a small fortune.

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