Great interview. I love how Hoa is not allowed to speak for himself unless under supervision.

I did check with the person who actually took the photo of Hoa and Sal. The photographer stated that Mr. Reynoso “LIED!… he (Sal) was NOT asked if it could be used! Sal was asked by Reynoso “if they could talk about an endorsement,” in the future.

Of course, I’m sure Reynoso will call this “hearsay” as well.

Chris Prevatt
TheLiberalOC.com

http://bolsavik.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/hoa-tran-campaign-nothing-illegal-wrong-or-inappropriate-happened/

And Janet is hardly an angel when it comes to her position on immigration; Art, Sean has a point that Supervisor Nguyen and you are at odds about several key positions, and yet you blow nothing but sunshine up her butt. Could you address the inconsistencies please?

Sort of like when Trung Nguyen put out a press release on me during his race against Janet Nguyen inthe special BOS race to replace Lou Correa. Can you see the similarities an how attacking Van TRan would not be beneficial to Hoa at this time?

May I remind you that the reason you Dems lost the First District was because Lou Correa VACATED it and you guys did not have anyone to replace him with. Shame on Miguel Pulido for ruining all the local elected officials. They are all tainted and not worth a damn. It is simply embarrassing that your party could not field someone decent for this seat.

That said, Janet has done a fine job. She is nowhere near the bad Reep that Dina is. Dina flew to the Mexican border to malign Latinos.

As for Hoa, the guy isn’t ready for a council seat, much less a supervisorial seat. He needs more seasoning. And it would help if he would actually speak out against Van Tran. He won’t. I wonder why?

I have said before that it is not at all unusual that the publisher of a blog would be contacted regarding a post. It is also not that unusual that an intermediary would be part of that process when it involves an elected official.

On the matter of “altering” the photo in Sean’s post; First I am the publisher and can, and will, do so if I find it necessary. Second, the photo in question was of a middle finger flipping people off. Since we had received a response I found the photo to be no longer appropriate. I made my notation about Supervisor Nguyen responding because I felt that changing a photo required an explanation to our readers as to what happened and why.

On the matter of whether or not I have “switched camps;” there has been no switching of camps. I have been critical of Supervisor Nguyen, and I have been willing to give here the benefit of the doubt periodically as well. I am not in anyone’s camp.

What I do know is that I am not willing to blindly support a guy who came out of nowhere to jump in the race for Supervisor just because he is registered as a Democrat. I expect that Hoa would have the common courtesy to run his campaign ethically. There is evidence to suggest that he may not be doing so. He needs to recognize that campaign reporting laws are important. Liberals and Democrats expect that he not act like a Republican, and follow the rules.

I have no problem criticizing a Democrat for filing reports that are on their face obviously false. If his campaign cannot file finance reports accurately, why should we trust him with a $5 billion budget. Dina Nguyen cannot even figure out how to file a statement of intent before she raises money, and Janet Nguyen cannot bring herself to report contributors to her legal defense fund (which wasn’t legal); cannot live within her district office budget paying for extra staff with funds from the Health Care Agency while cutting agency services; has the public pay for a “outreach” office in Little Saigon; redecorates her district office because “everyone else was doing it;” I could go on but I think you get the point.

Hell, they’re all flawed. Damn right I pleaded publicly for an elected democrat to challenge Janet Nguyen. And please, do not even go down the road of invoking Paul Lucas’ trojan horse campaign for Supervisor. The fingerprints of Van Tran and Mike Schroeder are all over this race, and Paul. This is a contest between Van Tran and Janet Nguyen, all other players are simply pawns in their feud.

The only losers in this race are the people of the First District who will have to suffer with four more years of Linclon Club and Republican control of a Supervisor’s seat that could have been a voice for the working people in Orange County.

One thing that bothers me about the local blogs is that we tend to assume that everyone knows who the players are. There’s no reason you’d know who Phil Bacerra is, but he’s a local planning consultant who’s acquainted with many OC politicians, both Dems and Reeps.

First, it is extremely unlikely that an email would bounce back from an email server when it is a response. Second, this email response I am assuming came from a County Computer. Any modern computer would recognize the IP of a County Government Computer as a non-threatening or spam email.

That’s not correct. First, it’s not a matter of “modern computers,” it’s a matter of the spam detection algorithm being used by a given individual’s ISP and email client. For example, yesterday I received quite a few emails from Sean Mill. Most of them got through but today I discovered two that had not.

While IP addresses are indeed used to filter out spam, that’s generally done by the ISP before it even gets to your computer. The “whitelisted” emails, such as emails from a county government computer, are then subjected to spam testing algorithms that look at the CONTENT of the email. If the algorithm decides that the content is spammish, it filters it out. Sometimes innocuous emails (what techies call “ham”) gets caught in the filters, as Sean’s emails to me did yesterday.

Anyway, the fact that an email comes from a county government computer will absolutely not keep it from being caught by an overly-enthusiastic spam filter. Your implication that Supervisor Nguyen is lying is based on a completely faulty assumption.

As for whether Chris is “Janet’s boy:” I have a moderate Republican friend who lives in Texas. A few days before the Texas primary I asked him how he was going to vote. He answered with much frustration that he didn’t like any of the candidates – neither Clinton, Obama, nor McCain. He ticked off a list of problems he had with each.

Is it so impossible to believe that Chris might feel similarly about the 3 Supervisorial candidates?

I think Sean and others who are assuming you are now “Janet’s Boy” stems from the recent change in your tone regarding the BOS 1st District and the candidates in this race.

I checked the link you provided to see how you have been critical of Janet. You certainly have been critical of Supervisor Nguyen up until February 27th 2008 when you wrote a post titled “Janet’s Tool, Pedroza thinks Benevides may run for Supervisor.

Then beginning with a post you wrote on March 7th, 2008 titled Lucas Pulls Papers for first District. Please David Run (updated) you seemed to be attacking a non-Vietnamese Democrat for pulling papers to run against Janet Nguyen.

In this article you were quite critical of Lucas for pulling papers to run. You pleaded with Councilman David Benevides to run. Benevides chose not to run in the end.

Then in a March 27th post titled “Dina Stumbles Out of the Gate” you made the following statement;

“Is it just me, or is it strange that these are some of the same folks who jumped all over Janet Nguyen for her missteps.”

Ok fair enough. You are criticizing a group that you term “Trannies”. No problem there but this is where you seem to make a hard turn in your attitude towards Supervisor Nguyen.

In fact, the next time you went into the realm of the Janet Nguyen for Supervisor threads you edited a post by Sean H Mill on April 15th titled “Janet’s Response to My Email”.

At this point you edited your fellow bloggers post by removing a picture and adding in an editor’s note expressing that Janet Nguyen did respond to Sean Mills email. Here is a quote from Sean Mill the following day;
“Earlier this morning I was informed by Phil Becerra via Chris Prevatt that Janet did indeed respond, however she claimed that her email was rejected three times.”
Here, it is clearly stated that you had communications between yourself and a staffer or friend of some sort of Supervisor Nguyen. First, it is extremely unlikely that an email would bounce back from an email server when it is a response. Second, this email response I am assuming came from a County Computer. Any modern computer would recognize the IP of a County Government Computer as a non-threatening or spam email. Third, you obviously communicated between Janet Nguyen and her supporters in order to reduce criticism of her regarding her stance on the issue of Protestors. I am not criticizing you for communicating with the Janet Nguyen camp and her supporters. I am merely pointing out why people are suggesting that you may be a Janet Nguyen supporter.

These are the type of changes in your posts and writings that are leading people to believe you are now “Janet’s Boy” to use their terms.

Many of the posts you wrote about anything related to the District 1 race have been extremely critical of your fellow Democrats and hardly mention Supervisor Nguyen at all. Let alone criticize her. That is all your right. I am merely pointing out the timeline in which you seemed to have switched camps and became a supporter of Janet Nguyen by attacking those who may try to unseat here and get a Democrat in that office. I hope this contributes to the dialogue of this topic.

Nigel