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More than 100 Vietnamese American community members gathered in Orange County Saturday, rallying around state Sen. Janet Nguyen , who was removed from the Senate floor Feb. 23 after attempting to speak out against the late Sen. Tom Hayden, an anti-Vietnam War activist. They demanded Senate Democrats apologize to the community and to Nguyen for the incident, which will be investigated by a three-person panel designated by Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon last week.
Re: "OCC should fire bully professor" [Opinion, Dec. 18]: Shawn Steel seems to live in a "morally fluid, post-modern world" of his own as evidenced by his recent opinion piece in the Orange County Register. He offers a variety of characterizations and claims, which are, at best, distortions and double standards.
Estelle Schultz, 98, born two years before women got the right to vote, shows her absentee ballot. Her granddaughter Sarah Benor started the website "I Waited 96 Years."
This election cycle, where emotions and tensions are particularly high, almost everything is hyperpoliticized and used by candidates, their backers and even media as weapons meant to discredit. In virtually every race this election cycle, from the presidential race to contests for the United States Senate to local races, personal attacks and demagoguery are the focal points of various campaigns instead of substantive debates about policy.
Here's the one thing Democratic politicians should fear more than any other potential California event: Latinos stay home from the polls in droves on Election Day in November 2016. It went almost unnoticed beyond Orange County in early 2015, but the events in one contest for a spot on that county's Board of Supervisors should be most instructive.
It was his original red meat message, the one that brought Donald Trump to this improbable moment as the presumptive Republican nominee for president. The one the crowd in Anaheim was hungry to devour over and over again.