The press release is in Vietnamese language. From the English flyer,  Vietnamese American candidates are Linh Ho, Andrew Do, Kim-oanh Nguyen-Lam,  and Frank Tran will be there.

Time: 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

When: Monday, October 6,2008
Where: Rancho Santiago Community College Board Room,2323 North Broadway Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92706

I didn't attached the flyer or the candidate list but I will give you the contact person information.

Contact information: Tanzila Ahmed, Tel: 714-636-9095, Email: tahmed@ocapica.org

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 Thông Cáo Báo Chí

 

Xin phổ biến rộng rãi

Liên lạc: Tanzila Ahmed, Tel: 714-636-9095, Email: tahmed@ocapica.org

Van Le (tiếng Việt hay Anh) Tel: 714-9095, vle@ocapica.org

 

Liên Hiệp Á Châu Thái Bình Dương Quận Cam (OCAPICA)

Tổ Chức Diễn Đàn Ứng Cử Viên cho Cộng Đồng

 

OCAPICA, một tổ chức bất vụ lợi phục vụ cộng đồng Á Châu Thái Bình Dương lớn

nhất tại Quận Cam, sẽ tổ chức một Diển Đàn cộng đồng tập trung vào cuộc tranh cử năm

nay vào chức vụ Hội Đồng Thành Phố Westminster và Garden Grove và Hội Đồng Giáo

Dục Westminster và Garden Grove. Tất cả các Ứng cữ viên năm nay đã được mời tham

dự. Các ứng cử viên sẽ trả lời các câu hỏi, từ ban tổ chức và cử tri, liên quan đến cư dân

trong vùng.

 

Thời Điểm: 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Thứ Hai, Ngày 6 tháng 10, năm 2008

Tại Rancho Santiago Community College Board Room

2323 North Broadway Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92706

 

Lý Do tổ chức: Thành phố Westminster và Garden Grove có đông cư dân Á Châu Thái

Bình Dương nhất tại Quận Cam. Trong Thành phố Westminster, 48% cử tri ghi dân đi bầu

là người Mỹ gốc Á Châu. Đối với Thành phó Garden Grove, số cử tri đi bầu là 38% Mỹ

gốc Á Châu. Westminster là nơi người Mỹ gốc Việt đầu tiên được bầu vào chức vụ Nghị

Viên thành phố; đó là Ông Tony Lâm. Garden Grove là nơi Dân Biểu Trần Thái Văn,

người Mỹ gốc Việt đầu tiên được bầu vào chức vụ Quốc Hội tiểu bang, cư ngụ. Garden

Grove cũng là nơi cư ngụ của Giám Sát Viên Janet Nguyễn, ngừơi đàn bà trẻ nhất và là

người người Mỹ gốc Việt đầu tiên được vào chức vụ Giám Sát Quận Cam. Năm nay, có

nhiều Ứng Cử Viên vào Hội Đồng Thành Phố cũng như Hội Đồng Giáo Dục cần một diển

đàn để tranh luận, và đây chính là cơ hội cho các Ứng cử viên này gửi thông điệp tranh

cử của họ cho cử tri.

 

Ông Alan Woo, Trưởng Ban Chính Sách Công Cộng của OCAPICA nói, “Liện Hiệp Á

Châu Thái Bình Dương đã có một quá trình tổ chức các sinh họat cộng đồng trong mùa

bầu cử để tạo cơ hội cho những Ứng cử viên gửi thông điệp của họ cho cử tri, cũng như

là cơ hội cho các cử tri được hiểu thêm về trình độ và khả năng của các Ứng cử viên.”

 

OCAPICA kính mời.

Đây là một sinh họat cộng đồng miển phí. Sẽ có ẩm thực nhẹ.

 

Please forward through your networks in the city of Garden Grove and Westminster ! Thank you!

As the Democrat primary reschedule this weekend in Louisiana, Anh (Joseph) Cao is the winner by default in Republican field because of unopposed in primary.

Here is the URL of Anh Cao website

http://www.voteforanhcao.com/

There are several articles about Tan Nguyen on Vietnamese newspapers/media and English newspapers/media.

Here are some URL if you want to read those articles:

English articles:

Former Congressional Candidate Nguyen Indicted Wednesday

"The man, Tan Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant who unsuccessfully ran in the 47th Congressional District in Orange County in 2006 against Representative Loretta Sanchez, is accused of misleading state investigators looking into the mailer. ", from California: Campaign Flier Case by The New York Times

Vietnamese articles

Cựu Ứng Cử Viên Tân Nguyễn Bị Buộc Tội Cản Trở Công Lý SBTN.net 10/02/08

Cựu ứng cử viên Tân Nguyễn bị buộc tội cản trở công lý Nguoi-Viet.com 10/01/08

Blogger from Bolsavik.com

Tan Nguyen called then canceled press conference

Tan Nguyen indicted

The url of this article:

http://www.slate.com/id/2201246/

One of the big reason the title of this article is "Chinese Democracy". The subtitle of the article is "Why don't we ever hear about the Asian-American vote?".  People can not hear about this issue if the headline on the newspaper didn't address them.

80-20 is a good concept. The problem is former Delaware Lt. Gov. S.B. Woo. His affiliated party is Democrat. He can pull people together on voter rights issues, discrimination at the voting places, or issues which Asian Americans have a same common. He is Chinese. Most of Chinese were voting for the Democrat party.

My friend told me that when he was elected in a bipartisan organization as president but when they found out that he is a Republican in California during his college year then they tried to do anything to remove him. That's a real problem in politic.

About  the ground game in Virginia, John McCain wrote off  in this article. This is a major problem of underestimating John McCain camps in Virginia and relying too much on the polls and previous win of Jim Webb.

While Obam was hiring Betsy Kim and recruits volunteers in recent month, John McCain already mobolized the ground game by  using a young Vietnamese volunteer from Maryland (a Republican delegate from the primary election) with some Bush volunteers (old Vietnamese Americans with background in journalist and connection to the media and who worked with other Asian communities in Northern Virginia) before primary election. We don't know if he will get help or already get help from Asian American or Vietnamese American volunteers from Bush campaign yet.

Oops I already said too much. I will try to see how Barack Obama team ground game with the help of Vietnamese American volunteers in the area which I already knew these faces. I just turn on the television at home to see the debate between Sarah Palin and Joseph Biden tonight with my family tonight.

There are only one positive note in Washington state that a Vietnamese radio did register more than 1,000 new Vietnamese American voters. There are booths from John McCain and Barack Obama in Eden Center. The John McCain didn't reveal the number of new Vietnamese American voters on their local press release in Northern Virginia. I forward this email message to stress the registration vote drive effort of anyone. You will find more information on registration voter in USA on this website in English start from today. If you didn't register to vote yet then it's still a lot of time left but it will end real fast if you don't act now. ------------------------------------------- Join the movement! www.hiphopcaucus.org To ensure receipt of our emails, please add info@hiphopcaucus.org to your address book or allowed senders list. HIP HOP CAUCUS WWW.HIPHOPCAUCUS.ORG Volunteer for One Vote Day! MIKE Today is One Vote Day! Be part of our World Record for voter registrations today. Rev. Yearwood told me there are over 60,000 members of the Hip Hop Caucus that are not registered to vote so if this includes you, register now before it's too late: Register to Vote Now! And please forward this message to all your friends so they can register to vote online right now. You and your friends can also join in our movement as we try to set a World Record for voter registration in one day - 50,000 voter registrations on One Vote Day! Attend one of our voter registration drives in cities nationwide - the full list of cities and locations is below. Just stop by one of these locations and join your friends in the Hip Hop community to register 50,000 voters. Don't forget to forward this e-mail with all the details to your friends. Be heard on Election Day! David Banner Here are the volunteer sign-in locations in each city: Atlanta 6am-10pm The Gallery at South DeKalb 2801 Candler Road DeCatur, Georgia 30034 Baltimore 6am-9pm Radio One Baltimore 1705 Whitehead Road Baltimore, Maryland 21207 Charlotte 6am-9pm The Historical Coffee Cup 9311 J.W. Clay Blvd. 704-510-2020 Cincinnati 6am-9pm The Urban League of Greater 3458 Reading Road Cleveland 6am-9pm Revol in Glenville Plaza 10515 St. Clair Ave Cleveland, Ohio Columbus 6am-9pm Smackies Barbeque 5730 Cleveland Ave Columbus, Ohio 43231 Dallas 6am-9pm The Martin Luther King Jr. Family Clinic 2922 Martin Luther King Blvd Dallas, Texas Detroit 6am-9pm Northland Shopping Center 21500 Northwestern Hwy Southfield, Michigan Houston Sharpstown Mall 7500 Bellaire Blvd #201 The Breakfast Klub 3711 Travis at Alabama Gallery Furniture 6006 I-45 North-Between Tidwell & Parker Indianapolis 6am-9pm Lafayette Square Mall 3919 Lafayette Road AND Broad Ripple Park 1550 Broad Ripple Avenue Los Angeles 6am-9pm The J Spot Comedy Club 5581 W. Manchester Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90045 Philadelphia 6am-9pm Close Pin 15th & Market Street Raleigh/ Durham 8am-8pm Hayti Heritage Center 804 Fayetteville Street Durham, NC 27707 Richmond 6am-9pm Richmond Coliseum 601 East Leigh Street Richmond, VA 23219 (7th Street Side) St. Louis 6am-9pm Monsanto Family YMCA 5555 Page Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63112 Washington DC 6am-9pm Mall of Prince Georges 3500 East West Highway (Route 410) Hyattsville, Maryland 20782 Hip Hop Caucus and Hip Hop Caucus Institute 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 110, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 293-5902 info@hiphopcaucus.org | Privacy Policy To view this email as a web page, go here. This email was sent to: mdo@hotmail.com This email was sent by: Hip Hop Caucus 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 110 Washington, DC 20036 We respect your right to privacy - view our policy Manage Subscriptions | Update Profile | One-Click Unsubscribe

FYI,

I didn't include the attached pictures but you can view those pictures by visiting the website in this press realease. There is no number of registration on new Vietnamese American voters in this press release.

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Eden Center is "McCain Nation" during the Mid-Autumn Festival      
September 27, 2008

Contact:  Shandon Phan (202) 415-3366

(Falls Church, Virginia) The Vietnamese Americans for McCain-Palin Coalition today hosted a Voter Registration & Outreach booth at the Mid-Autumn Festival inside Eden Center, a Vietnamese community hub in Northern Virginia.
 
The Mid-Autumn festival is a traditional Vietnamese celebration of abundance and togetherness.  Despite hard rain in the morning, thousands of people gathered at the popular shopping center to celebrate this joyous festival.

The McCain-Palin booth attracted so many visitors throughout the day that volunteers worked non-stop and some did not even have a chance to grab their first meal until 6pm.  Many people wanted to discuss issues and find out how to get involved, while others simply wanted to send their best wishes to the McCain-Palin team and provided the McCain volunteers with refreshments and words of encouragement.  

By 6pm, over 800 fliers and 250 stickers were given out.  The volunteers left Eden Center, exhausted but obviously proud of their effort.

"We couldn't be more pleased to see the outpouring of support for Senator McCain from our community members, especially those of younger generations." said Shandon Phan, National Co-Chair of the Vietnamese Americans for McCain-Palin Coalition.  "We recruited many volunteers today and did an effective job in informing our community members about the clear differences between Sen. McCain and his opponent."
 
"Elephants never forget," announced Chu Nguyen, a coalition member and a Republican, echoing the community's respect for and appreciation of Senator McCain's courageous service and sacrifices in protecting American honor and freedom for the Vietnamese people as well as for his leadership in sponsoring legislations that brought tens of thousands of Vietnamese political prisoners and their families to the United States after the war.

Two weeks ago, some members of the group had the opportunity to meet with Sen. McCain, who surprised them with a sudden visit at the campaign headquarters, where the group was volunteering.  Both Sen. McCain and his brother Joe, who is also a Vietnam veteran, wished the Vietnamese community a joyous Mid-Autumn festival celebration on two separate occasions.

"With the large population of Vietnamese in the area, our community can make a big difference in this tight race," said Phan.  "The Obama camp is here as well but makes no mistake… Eden Center is a 'McCain Nation.'"       
 

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The Vietnamese Americans for McCain-Palin Coalition, a subdivision of the larger APA coalition, is a national coalition of political, community and business leaders whose mission is to help elect Senator John McCain the next President of the United States.  The Vietnamese American coalition of Virginia maintains an operation office in Annandale, Virginia and will hold its official Vietnamese American endorsement rally for McCain-Palin on October 11.  For more information, visit our Web site at www.AsianAmericansforMcCain.org.

 
 

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Shandon Phan
Maryland's 7th Congressional District Delegate, 2008 RNC Convention
National Co-Chair, Vietnamese Americans for McCain-Palin Coalition
Founder, Asian Americans for McCain
http://www.AsianAmericansforMcCain.org

Vietnamese volunteers in Potomac area from both John McCain and Barack Obama camp are forced to register  new Vietnamese voters. You can check our website for pictures of their booths in Eden Center on Tet Trung Thu (Moon festival, Mid-Autumn festival) .

http://www.vietvoters.info (click Virginia) 

It is major change.

Gone: no longer wait for Vietnamese non-profit organizations to register voters by bipartisan way.

Gone: Vietnamese volunteers from both camps can not hide their agenda or their identities by working in non-profit group with pushing their own agenda in the name of Vietnamese community.

Gone: Vietnamese in  both  Republic and Democrat camps can not lay back under umbrella of Asian Americans. They are forcing to work harder by both camps because of close races.

Some mistakes are resulted of their party campaign drive stalled in Vietnamese American communtiy by their  campaing headquarter careless on handling/answering letters of Vietnamese community leaders asking for something when the polls are not closed. They  just  can't juse Asian Americans to register Vietnamese voters.

There is a big move by The New South Wales Liberal Party try to capture the largest concentration of Vietnamese population in (Cabramatta) Sydney, Australia. We will update information on this URL.

http://vietvoters.info/pb/wp_223b0c7f/wp_223b0c7f.html

I didn't include the attached file in my blog section. However, you can request the file from emails of Democrat volunteers/camp in Potomac area in the below message.

Have a nice weekend,

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From    :    "Dang, Hoan" <hoan.dang@lmco.com>
       
To     :     Hoan Dang <hdang888@gmail.com>
       
Subject     :     FW: Mid-Autumn Festival Statement from Senator Barack Obama
       
Date     :     Wed, Sep 24, 2008 11:22 PM
       
Attachment(s)    :    2 file(s)/document(s) | Total File Size: 978K
       
       
       
Dear fellow Vietnamese Americans,

Happy Tet Trung Thu!

Hoan Dang
"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time." - Benjamin
Disreali

-----Original Message-----
From: Hung Nguyen [mailto:hung@hungnguyen.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:22 PM
To: hung@hungnguyen.com
Subject: Mid-Autumn Festival Statement from Senator Barack Obama

Dear Friends,

Attached is a letter from Senator Barack Obama in Vietnamese on the
occassion of the Mid-Autumn Festival. I think this shows great cultural
awareness of an important Vietnamese day of unity and sharing among
families and friends.

Please forward this on to your Vietnamese American friends for reading
and dissemination.

Hung Nguyen
703-470-4864

I listed only the activities on Vietnamese American events in Northern Virginia from their original list.

Have a nice weekend,

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From    :    "Dang, Hoan" <hoan.dang@lmco.com>    
To     :     Hoan Dang <hdang888@gmail.com>
Cc    :    minhngoc@earthlink.com, prosthochu@comcast.net, hung@hungnguyen.com
Subject     :     FW: Obama campaign AAPI volunteer opportunities
Date     :     Thu, Sep 25, 2008 08:51 PM
       

Dear friends and fellow Asian Americans,
 
Asian Americans are helping Barack Obama gain the lead over his opponent in a very tight race in VA. We need your help to widen that gap, so that VA will elect a Democratic President for the first time in 44 years!
 
This is an election where everyone should get involved because our economic future depends on it. Barack Obama will be the President to lead us out of the economic crisis.
 
Please see the email below for all the different events and ways that you can participate.
 
YES WE CAN!

Hoan Dang
"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time." - Benjamin Disreali
 

From: Minh-ngoc Le [mailto:minhngoc@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 2:24 PM
To: ahoang-wrona; Anis Ahmed; Bao Nguyen; Charles Sye; chau nguyen; Chong Park; chungpak; DeeanaJang; ecb20901; Elisha Pulivarti; gene.f.kim; George Dang; hdang888; Henry Lau; Dang, Hoan; James Suh; Jenny Jiang; Jian Zhou; Jin Gong; Kimberly Lee; kisook.bozsa; Kyle Liang; Lee Fang; Mae Park; Man Cho; Martin Ma; Motoo Unno; MSIDDIQUE; Partha Pillai; paultiao; Prosthochu; ross quan; Sarah Yoo; Stan Tsai; Sun Hee Choi; susan lee; Teresa Lee; Theo Chuan; Thomas Kim; Tim Chng; Xuan Nguyen; ahoang-wrona; Anis Ahmed; Bao Nguyen; Charles Sye; chau nguyen; Chong Park; chungpak; DeeanaJang; ecb20901; Elisha Pulivarti; gene.f.kim; George Dang; hdang888; Henry Lau; Dang, Hoan; James Suh; Jenny Jiang; Jian Zhou; Jin Gong; Kimberly Lee; kisook.bozsa; Kyle Liang; Lee Fang; Mae Park; Man Cho; Martin Ma; Motoo Unno; MSIDDIQUE; Partha Pillai; paultiao; Prosthochu; ross quan; Sarah Yoo; Stan Tsai; Sun Hee Choi; susan lee; Teresa Lee; Theo Chuan; Thomas Kim; Tim Chng; Xuan Nguyen; mdasian-americansforobama
Subject: FW: Obama campaign AAPI volunteer opportunities

Everyone,
 
Only 40 days left and counting....The polls are showing that Obama has a lead in VA  (see link below)
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/search/label/virginia
 
We really need you to participate there -- now more than ever!  See the activities below and take your pick!
 
FIRED UP & READY TO GO !!!   
 
Minh Le

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    Voter Registration - Mid-Autumn Festival
    Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008
    Time: 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm
    Location: Eden Center, 6795 Wilson Blvd., Falls Church, VA 22044
    Contact: Anh Thu Lu, atlu59@yahoo.com

    Voter Registration at the Vietnamese Autumn Moon Festival
    Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008
    Location: Eden Center, 6795 Wilson Blvd., Falls Church, VA 22044
    Time: 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm

    Duration: 8 hours
    Host: Hung Nguyen
    To RSVP, please go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpgh33.