Westminster City Council meetings have become must-watch TV for residents, who follow the drama on local cable. The infighting has gotten so bad that it's practically paralyzed the City Council and spurred recall efforts against all five of its members.
Westminster residents waited decades for their City Council to become the nation’s first with a Vietnamese American majority. Now some are watching with growing frustration and anger as that majority threatens to implode.
Councilman Tai Do, whose day job is working as a police officer in Long Beach, says,"My goal is to bring trust and accountability back to City Hall."Do sees himself as a reformer willing to take on what he regards as the cronyish and ethically questionable behavior of the council majority. The three-member majority views Do as a grandstander who’s attacking them to elevate his own profile.
Tran thinks the council’s antics could hinder the Vietnamese American community’s growing political clout in parts of Orange County. “No one dared to ask hard questions about what’s been happening to lose the trust of the people in Westminster,” Do said. “My goal is to bring trust and accountability back to City Hall.”
Councilman Nguyen, an engineer, backed the mayor, saying of Do: “He just brings up side issues, not relevant issues. He’s creating distractions and he is recruiting people to take our seats from us.” “Yet this is not about ethnicity,” added Johnson, a 12-year resident. Initially, he said, the recall effort was spurred by Vietnamese veterans upset that Tabacked a proclamation honoring a Vietnamese actress in a human trafficking movie made in communist Vietnam.
“I’ve never seen this broad of a recall, which I believe is unprecedented in California,” he said. “Certainly, everyone has their principles, but the nature of a small group like that is they should be able to work out their differences.” “They embarrass themselves,” he said. “I am not taking sides, but I’m calling on them to refrain from fighting.”
Contreras and Do fought the idea vigorously, stressing that it could hamper their work with residents since their three colleagues effectively could screen them out from deliberations — or block any motions they might try to introduce.
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