As if newly elected OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen didn’t have enough to deal with (having just won by three votes and still facing a legal challenges to her seat) this morning the Capitol Morning Report pulled a two-year-old press release from the CalChamber web site talking about their support for Supervisor Nguyen’s run at Assemblyman Van Tran’s 68th Assembly District seat (even though Van is not termed out until 2010. NOT TRUE (well the part about the Chamber support is or was…read on).
Back when the jockeying for Joe Dunn’s 34th Senate seat was happening Assemblyman Van Tran was the likely GOP nominee and at that time then-Councilwoman Janet Nguyen was on track to run to replace Tran. Janet Nguyen a former local chamber government affairs exec. had the support of the CalChamber. When Tran decided to stick it out in the Assembly, the whole thing became moot.
According to FR publisher Jon Fleischman, who has been in contact with the Capitol Morning Report and CalChamber today, the correction will be published tomorrow.
While it might have been a fun war to watch, don’t count on Supervisor Janet Nguyen to run for the legislature any time soon. She has as many as 10 years ahead of her on the OC Board of Supervisors. And while Supervisor Nguyen and Assemblyman Tran were on opposite sides of her recent race, they are both important leaders in the GOP and Vietnamese community alike–there is room for both political leaders.
Rather than running against each other, I’d bet they will support each other for re-election.