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. From the OC Register:
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.
Just one thing: the office is in Congressman Dana Rohrbacher's district, not Sanchez's.
Ouch.
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.
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:
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.
"What, are we going to quibble with a block?" he asked.
Are we? No. But Sanchez might.
Well played. Yes, it's a cosmetic detail, but it's not exactly the foot you want your campaign getting off on. |
