Tea Party Express Endorses Gary Miller, Ed Royce and Van Tran

Tea Party Express, one of the most influential Tea Party groups, has announced their West Coast Congressional endorsements. They include Rep. Gary Miller, Rep. Ed Royce and Assemblyman Van Tran, who is challenging Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

The group was pivotal this year in helping to secure the Republican nominations for conservatives including Sharron Angle in Nevada, Joe Miller in Alaska and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.

Poll shows Van Tran and Loretta Sanchez tied

A poll conducted by the Van Tran Campaign has him tied with Rep. Loretta Sanchez. CQ Politics has more on the poll.

Tran and Sanchez had 39%. Ceci Iglesias received 5 percent. 17 percent were undecided.

Rep. Loretta Sanchez and Assemblyman Van Tran to debate

From KOCE

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Sanchez And Tran To Debate October 13 On KOCE-TV’s Real Orange

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. (October 5, 2010) –The top polling candidates for the 47th Congressional District office will hold their only pre-election debate on two special broadcasts of KOCE’s Real Orange. Incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, and challenger, Republican Assemblyman Van Tran will tape two 30-minute debate programs on Wednesday, October 13. The debate specials, moderated by veteran news anchor Ed Arnold, will premiere on Wednesday, October 13 and Thursday, October 14 at 6:30 PM, respectively.

Encore broadcasts of the debate can be seen through October 20 on KOCE with additional broadcasts on the OC Channel. Check listings The programs will also be available online at video.koce.org by Friday, October 15.

Representatives from the local media are invited to attend the tapings, as well as a post-event press conference with the candidates. This event is not open to the general public. Any quotes, video clips, and audio from the debates will be embargoed until that debate has premiered on KOCE. For more information, contact Lindsey Neal at 714.861.4328 or lneal@koce.org.

About KOCE-TV
KOCE-TV one of the most watched PBS stations in America with an estimated 5.8 million unduplicated viewers monthly. KOCE’s award-winning programming offers the fifth-largest county in the nation a long-standing community hub for local news, culture and features, and broadcasts the best available national PBS programs to the entire Southern California five-county region. Known for its outstanding dedication to education, KOCE Classroom serves more than a half million K-12 students. A national Roper poll recently ranked PBS as number one in public trust for the seventh consecutive year. *The winner of hundreds of awards including Emmys and Community Service Awards, KOCE continues to be a vital community resource and connector for Southern California. For more information, please visit www.koce.org.* Reported by the GfKRoper Public Affairs & Media poll (2010)
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Rep. Loretta Sanchez: "Vietnamese...trying to take this seat"

We don't normally cover news from Rep. Loretta Sanchez's district but this one caught our eye.

Politico has a story about a recent interview Sanchez did with Univision in Spanish. According to a translation Sanchez said, "The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for our community — to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic."

Tran's campaign said that this, "attack against immigrants and the Vietnamese community on national television is shocking. The 47th congressional district belongs to the people and not an individual ethnicity."

The YouTube video of the Sanchez interview can be found here.