Go re-read what I wrote because I said you set your standards higher for Hoa than the other candidates you mentioned. I wasn’t talking about setting standards higher than the general public.

Believe me when I say I know you.

I run into people like you daily.

The parent who complains to me why their son/daughter is not learning baseball meanwhile they don’t lift a finger to offer minimal assistance.

The parent who complains about schools but doesn’t do anything proactive to fix the issues, while I’m an active PTA member and public schools financial donor.

The person that points out that someone is littering but dosn’t pick up thrash as it passes them on the street.

The person that has all the suggestions about making our community a better place but doesn’t understand that talkiing about something is not a substitute for doing something.

Standards. I meet them everyday, how about you?

You want Hoa to walk everyday, yet candidates in the past walked as many door as “possible”

You want Hoa to raise money, yet candidates in the past committed “several hours a day for fund-raising”. (Are you sure they did this on there first go around, me thinks definitely was not happening on a daily basis)

Then besides, can you imagine how limited the pool of donors there are as opposed to a congressional or state seat. This is a supervisor office. I think there’s little doubt that state and national candidates in winnable elections have an infinite amount of potential donors as opposed to a local supervisor.

I watched the video of Hoa and the Young Democrats meeting and I was extremely impressed of his command of his speech. I watched Janet and Dina at the California republican party endorsements committee meeting and was really disappointed. I honestly believe that my 4th grade daughter could have presented a better job at public speaking.

Given that, if I were in your flip flops, I would stop putting barriers for Hoa and help him get the volunteers, help him walk the neighborhoods, and help him raise the funds.

Perhaps instead of feeling compelled to tell others what to do while questioning others who are actually doing something, consider setting an acceptable standard for candidates who it sounds like did not have the enrolling in your highly acclaimed politic 101 course.

Hoa has been out walking precincts every day as have the workers that he has in his office. We should get behind him because we can’t let Janet or Dina win the seat. Maybe if the big money folks see that Hoa has the support of the people the money will flow in on a regular basis.

Lou and Loretta did not have any support when they ran the first time, which is very true. But they knocked on every possible door, attended every pancake breakfast, committed several hours a day to “call time” to raise money – even putting themselves into debt, and asked every person on the street to join their campaign to make a difference in their neighborhood.

At this point, Hoa has done very little of these things, thus he does not inspire me to support him. Until then, I will support candidates like Lou, Loretta, Katrina, Sharon, Kim Oanh, Jose, Michelle and Jordan.

He is inline with the majority of the blue collar working folks and with the Latino community on most issues. That is what matters.

Loretta and Lou did not get much support from local electeds when they first ran and look at the successes they have had.