In Westminster, home to Little Saigon, the election of a majority-Vietnamese council in 2008 was a milestone. The bickering started almost immediately and hasn’t stopped since.
On March 9, the Westminster City Council met until midnight, sparring bitterly about whether local Vietnamese-language YouTube broadcasts were spreading “fake news.”
Councilman Tai Do would like to find ways to increase the city’s revenue “without depending on the sales tax.” Voters could also gather signatures for a special election, but the earliest that could be held is next year. Councilman Tai Do, who is typically aligned with Ho and Manzo, told The Times he would like to find ways to increase revenue “without depending on the sales tax.”
Nearly 40% of Westminster’s more than 90,000 residents are of Vietnamese ancestry. Manzo is the only non-Vietnamese and the only Democrat on the council. Some of the videos accuse non-Vietnamese politicians like Manzo of being racist; they can’t fight back because they don’t speak Vietnamese, the resolution said.
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