Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Scott Hung Pham Lost An Easy Chance to Be in the Run-Off

With all of  the precincts counted, here is the result of last night special supervisorial race for District 2 to replace the convicted Shirakawa.   About 18% of the registered voters went to the poll.

PATRICIA MARTINEZ-ROACH  1,362             7.05%
CINDY CHAVEZ                                         
7,92741.04%

TERESA ALVARADO
6,036 31.25%

SCOTT HUNG PHAM 2,74714.22%
JOSEPH LA JEUNESSE 6363.29%
DAVID S. WALL 6083.15%
Total 19,316

In a district where Scott Pham calculated that there are about 20,000 Vietnamese-American registered voters, if he could get 35% of them to go to the poll and vote for him,  he could have been in the runoff due to the low overall turnout. 

But unfortunately,  he simply did not know how to run for office.  LSI could not even find his campaign website.  With his incapability to raise any money, he was doomed from the start. 

Cindy Chavez and Teresa Alvarado will now face each other.   With the overwhelming Vietnamese-American voters don't really care for Madison Nguyen,  her support of Alvarado will cause this crucial ethnic voting bloc to be of Cindy Chavez by default. 

Even though Chavez is not taking things for granted, she is reaching out to the Vietnamese-American community leaders by promising of hiring more Vietnamese-Amerians to opening positions in the county. 

LSI did an unofficial exist poll of Viet-American voters  last evening and 87% of them voted for Scott Hung Pham.   When asked the choice between Chavez and Alvarado,  49% said that they would vote for Chavez because Madison Nguyen supported Alvarado.   While 40% said they would not vote for either one of them since they have not done anything for the community.


We will wait and see what will happen in the runoff but it seems that the Nguyen's popularity or lack-off in her own district will doom Alvardo.  

Footnote:  Mercury News reported that  Chavez received 40% of the votes vs. 28% for Alvarado in Nguyen's District 7.  

         
   
           
   
   
   
                             



 

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Town Hall with US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear in San Jose

Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:
Friday, June 7, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PDT)
Board of Supervisors Chamber, Santa Clara County Government Center
East Wing, 1st Floor
70 W. Hedding Street
San Jose, CA 95110

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Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) is proud to host a town hall featuring special guest: U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam David B. Shear.

Following remarks by Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, Congresswoman Lofgren, and Ambassador Shear, audience members will be invited to ask questions during a question and answer session.

Guests are asked to email questions in advance to: Minh-Chau.Nguyen@mail.house.gov.
David B. Shear was sworn in as Ambassador to Vietnam on August 4, 2011. He joined the Foreign Service in 1982. He has served in Sapporo, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur. In Washington, he has served in the Offices of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Affairs and as the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs. He was Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs in 2008-2009 and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 2009-2011.

I hope you can make it!
- Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren


This mailing was prepared, published, and mailed at taxpayer expense.
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