Van Tran for Congress

NEW VIDEO: “Well, She Almost Apologized…”

Check out our new video, “Well, She Almost Apologized…” then CLICK HERE to help us get the word out about Loretta’s outrageous racial rampage!

Townhall.com: Loretta Sanchez’ Vulnerability

Brian Walsh
Townhall.com
Mon, Sep, 27, 2010

A lot has changed in California’s 47th Congressional District since I first wrote about the race between incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez and Republican Van Tran.

Having to run a real campaign for the first time in a long while, Sanchez also faces a Hispanic independent candidate on the ballot. Factor in the strong campaign that ‘Young Gun’ Tran is waging, and it all spells trouble for the incumbent this fall.

As a sign the race is slipping away from Sanchez, she recently took to the air waves and attacked the Vietnamese community, accusing them of trying to take her seat.

The fact that a Member of Congress would resort to such a low tactic shows how desperate Sanchez is to cling to power. Maybe if she spent a little less time hobnobbing at the Playboy Mansion and a little more paying attention to her constituents, she could have avoided this situation – but luckily for voters looking for conservative values in their representation, she’s neglected her seat.

With polling numbers showing Tran within the margin of error of Sanchez and non-partisan political handicapper Charlie Cook moving the race from “Likely D” to “Lean D” over the summer, CA-47 is shaping up to be a headache for national Democrats on election night.

Given the recent events in the district and developing position of Van Tran, you’re definitely going to want to keep an eye on this seat. Loretta Sanchez’ Vulnerability This November, frustrated California voters will have an opportunity to put an end to the Loretta Sanchez-Nancy Pelosi agenda.

After voting with her party boss almost 98 percent of the time, Sanchez has repeatedly put partisan politics over her constituents’ best interests. And in a time of high unemployment, Sanchez isn’t doing middle-class families any favors by rubber-stamping her party’s failed economic policies.

As Southern California voters head to the polls this fall, they have a perfect opportunity to finally hold Pelosi puppet Loretta Sanchez accountable. Currently represented by Democrat incumbent Loretta Sanchez, California’s 47th Congressional District covers half of Santa Ana and most of the cities of Garden Grove and Anaheim, all of which are located in Orange County.

The 47th is one of the few districts in California that does not have an overwhelming majority of voters favoring one political party. George W. Bush won the district in 2004, as well as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. However, in recent elections the district has also supported Democratic state senators and voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Democrat incumbent Loretta Sanchez has her work cut out for her.

Sanchez has a very liberal record which will be hard to defend in a moderate district, during an anti-incumbent year when voters are tired of Democrats’ reckless spending sprees and failed economic policies. While unemployment in California has risen to 12.4%, Sanchez has made her real priority clear – consistently supporting Nancy Pelosi’s misguided healthcare bill, her party’s runaway spending spree and a failed trillion-dollar stimulus...

Full Article: CLICK HERE

O.C. Register: Sanchez Apologizes For Offense Over Words

By DOUG IRVING
2010-09-24

SANTA ANA – Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez said Friday that her now-famous remark about “Vietnamese” trying to take her seat had been misinterpreted but apologized if it caused any offense.

She did not, however, apologize for calling her Republican challenger Van Tran – himself an immigrant from Vietnam – anti-immigrant…

For the Full Article, CLICK HERE.

¿Polémico comentario racista?

Univision
09/24/2010

Pleito entre Loretta Sanchéz y su oponente ‘Van Tran’ por escaño político

Fuente: Noticiero Univision

Tran Vows To Protect Social Security, Sanchez’s Overspending Puts Our Vital Commitments Like Social Security At Risk

I was proud to sit down with the Orange County Register’s Brian Calle and talk about the economy, immigration and about my clear commitment to our seniors.

We must never break the promise we have made to our seniors on Social Security.

Sadly, Loretta Sanchez’s out-of-control spending and massive debt that puts our vital commitments like Social Security and Medicare at risk.

Here is the September 3, 2010 video:

Orange County Register: Tran a ‘Young Gun’ in race against Sanchez

FULL STORY HERE: http://www.ocregister.com/news/republican-266863-tran-campaign.html

Red County: Out-Of-Touch Loretta Sanchez Still Not Focused On Our Economy

CD 47 Watch: Loretta Sanchez (D-Playboy Mansion) “Looks Forward ALL Year to Hunk Night.”
RedCounty.com
By jfrankparnell
9/16/10

Ever wonder what your member of Congress looks forward to all year? A friend forwarded today’s headline in The Hill about our dear Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.

The photo says it all.

Loretta does not have time for debates with Assemblyman Van Tran in the district, but “hunk night” in DC is on her calendar with a permanent marker.

Expect a stiletto heel to be hurled into a wall if any of her aides schedules a policy briefing during “hunk night.” Maybe she wants to spend her last 47 days in office partying like Paris Hilton? I give up trying to figure out Sanchez’s psyche. My gut tells me that Van Tran won’t be this entraining in DC.

But with a 12 percent unemployment rate in California, I would trade a chuckle for actual results. Here is rest of the story about OUR embarrassing member of Congress from Orange County.

THE HILL
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) was flanked by good-looking male celebrities on Tuesday night, and she said that’s just how she likes it.

Speaking at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts’s annual Noche de Gala dinner at the Mayflower Hotel, Sanchez took the stage alongside actors Esai Morales (CBS’s “Jericho”) and Jimmy Smits (“The West Wing” and NBC’s “Outlaw”).

“I look forward to this dinner all year,” Sanchez gushed, “because I get to stand next to all these hunks!”

Sanchez looked pretty glamorous herself. Dressed in a floor-length strapless gown with flowers on it, the lawmaker would have been right at home on a Hollywood red carpet.

Or, perhaps, at a Playboy Mansion party (fully dressed, of course) — Sanchez made headlines last month when she met with Hugh Hefner at the mansion for lunch, a meeting that by all accounts was strictly business.

For the full article, CLICK HERE.

Orange County Register: Rep. Sanchez: ‘Vietnamese’ Trying To Take Seat

For the full article visit:
http://www.ocregister.com/news/vietnamese-267844-sanchez-tran.html

Politico: Sanchez: ‘Vietnamese’ after my seat

Politico.com

By: Andy Barr

September 24, 2010

California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez is attracting national criticism for saying during a recent Spanish-language interview that “the Vietnamese” are trying to wrestle away her seat.

“The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for our community — to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic,” Sanchez said in an interview with Univision, according to a translation by The Orange County Register.

Tran, the Republican state assemblyman who’s running against Sanchez, is a Vietnamese-American. According to his campaign website, his family came to the United States in 1975, having been evacuated by the U.S. Army just before the fall of Saigon.

Sanchez’s comments were first reported this week by the Orange County Weekly, then drew wider notice when a number of leading conservative sites — including Hot Air and Andrew Breitbart’s network — spotlighted them in posts on Thursday. Tran’s campaign issued a statement in which it said that the Democrat’s “attack against immigrants and the Vietnamese community on national television is shocking.

The 47th congressional district belongs to the people and not an individual ethnicity.”

For the full article, CLICK HERE.

AP: Sanchez says she ‘did not intend to offend anyone’

The Associated Press
Posted: 09/24/2010

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez says she didn’t intend to offend anyone when she told a reporter in a Spanish-language interview that “the Vietnamese” and Republicans were trying to take her seat in Congress.

Sanchez said Friday she “used a poor choice of words that some people have taken as offensive” in an interview with Jorge Ramos on Univision’s Sunday morning show, “Al Punto.” She said she apologizes if she offended anyone with her remarks.

She also referred to her opponent, Republican Assemblyman Van Tran, as “very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic,” in the interview. The Orange County Register reported Thursday that Tran had asked for an apology.

His campaign manager said Sanchez’s comment on national television was an attack against immigrants and the Vietnamese community.

For the full article, CLICK HERE.