Janet hits back

Countering accusations of chumming with communists, OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen hit back last night with a mass email touting her own anti-communist credentials.

The top half of the email (pictured) are images of her in various anti-communist activities as well as portraits of her father and uncle, both of whom served as officers in the South Vietnamese military. It says that her uncle was killed when communists took over South Vietnam.

The bottom half answers in 5 points what she calls the “lies by other candidates and elected officials in Assemblyman Van Tran’s camp.” The Bolsavik is pretty sure this is the first time the Janet camp figures out to write in bullet points in Vietnamese.

Anyway, what’s interesting is the top half. It shows Janet at a protest against Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet in Dana Point (read here), at a protest against Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in New York City, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on human rights in Vietnam, and, in the center, protesting in support of the name “Little Saigon” in San Jose. (Read more here.)

What? Since when is it proper for a Southern California pol to join a protest on a local street-naming issue in Northern California?

But then again Viet politicians have always functioned on a different set of rules….