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Nguyen Wins

Posted by Paul Brennan in Little Saigon Follies, Politics

February 7, 2007 10:02 AM

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Garden Grove city councilmember Janet Nguyen is seems the winner of yesterday's special election in the Board of Supervisor's First District. The vote count currently on the Registrar of Voters website gives Nguyen a 52 vote margin of victory over second place finisher Trung Nguyen.

The big story out of yesterday's election seems to be the emerging clout of Vietnamese-Americans as a voting bloc, since neither Nguyen had the official backing of their party.

Is it too much to hope for that a photo will surface showing Trung Nguyen being consoled on his loss by Governor Schwarzenegger, John Wayne, and Abraham Lincoln?

Update: The day draws to a close, and things have gone from close to paper (ballot) thin. Now Trung Nguyen is on top by seven votes. Looks like a recount will be coming up, which means it'll be a while before we know whether a Trung, Schwarzenegger, Wayne, and Lincoln photo would show them all wearing silly hats at a victory party or not (Lincoln excepted, of course).

 

Comments (2)

  1. Orange County Weekly - The Blotter » Going, Going, Gone to Court says:
    February 27, 2007 10:02

    [...] The Los Angeles Times reports that OC Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley has finished the recount of the February 6 special election, and determined that Janet Nguyen is the winner.  Republican Nguyen's margin of victory over Republican Trung Nguyen is said to be seven votes, which brings the proceedings to a neatly symmetrical end, since the losing Nguyen (T.) was seven votes ahead of the winning Nguyen (J.) at the beginning of the recount. [...]

  2. Orange County Weekly - The Blotter » Update-a-palooza says:
    March 27, 2007 09:03

    [...] looks like the most special of all special elections is finally over, and Janet Nguyen is the new First District Supervisor, winning by a total of 3 [...]

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