{"id":8810,"date":"2009-05-08T21:54:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-08T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T21:54:28","slug":"ca47-van-tran-announces-challenge-to-loretta-sanchezin-rohrabachers-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/08\/ca47-van-tran-announces-challenge-to-loretta-sanchezin-rohrabachers-district\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-47: Van Tran announces challenge to Loretta Sanchez…in Rohrabacher’s district."},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re going to announce a run for a Congressional seat, you might want to do it in the district you’re running for.<\/a>  From the OC Register:<\/p>\n

After years of will-he or won’t-he speculation, Assemblyman Van Tran officially launched his quest to unseat Rep. Loretta Sanchez at a press conference this afternoon at a Little Saigon office building in Westminster.<\/p>\n

Just one thing: the office is in Congressman Dana Rohrbacher’s district, not Sanchez’s.<\/p>\n

Ouch.<\/p>\n

At about 10 a.m. this morning, Tran aide Dave Everett sent an email to Orange County politicos, inviting them to a 2 p.m. press conference at Tran’s Little Saigon headquarters at “9191 Bolsa Avenue, Suite #209 Westminster, California 92683.”…If you run that address through the Registrar of Voter’s online district finder, you’ll see that 9191 Bolsa Ave. in Westminster is located in the 46th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, did Assemblymember Tran just not know, or did he not care?  Neither is good, but the latter is worse.  And the latter it is:<\/p>\n

Everett said Tran and his aides knew the location was outside the district, but went with it anyway because it’s only “like a block out of Garden Grove” and because it’s a good, central location for the Vietnamese press.<\/p>\n

“What, are we going to quibble with a block?” he asked.<\/p>\n

Are we? No. But Sanchez might.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well played. Yes, it’s a cosmetic detail, but it’s not exactly the foot you want your campaign getting off on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re going to announce a run for a Congressional seat, you might want to do it in the district you’re running for.<\/a>  From the OC Register:<\/p>\n

After years of will-he or won’t-he speculation, Assemblyman Van Tran officially launched his quest to unseat Rep. Loretta Sanchez at a press conference this afternoon at a Little Saigon office building in Westminster.<\/p>\n

Just one thing: the office is in Congressman Dana Rohrbacher’s district, not Sanchez’s.<\/p>\n

Ouch.<\/p>\n

At about 10 a.m. this morning, Tran aide Dave Everett sent an email to Orange County politicos, inviting them to a 2 p.m. press conference at Tran’s Little Saigon headquarters at “9191 Bolsa Avenue, Suite #209 Westminster, California 92683.”…If you run that address through the Registrar of Voter’s online district finder, you’ll see that 9191 Bolsa Ave. in Westminster is located in the 46th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, did Assemblymember Tran just not know, or did he not care?  Neither is good, but the latter is worse.  And the latter it is:<\/p>\n

Everett said Tran and his aides knew the location was outside the district, but went with it anyway because it’s only “like a block out of Garden Grove” and because it’s a good, central location for the Vietnamese press.<\/p>\n

“What, are we going to quibble with a block?” he asked.<\/p>\n

Are we? No. But Sanchez might.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well played. Yes, it’s a cosmetic detail, but it’s not exactly the foot you want your campaign getting off on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[994,984,1536],"class_list":["post-8810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-994","tag-984","tag-1536"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2i6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}