8/01/2004 Orange County Register Article: The GOP's New Local Face (pdf file)

7/31/2004 Orange County candidate blazes trail for Vietnamese-Americans (San Francisco Gate)

2/19/2004 Van Tran GOP Voter Registration Drive Up to 3,300 new Republicans since December

2/17/2004 National Tax Limitation Committee PAC Endorses Van Tran for Assembly

2/09/2004 Respected Orange County Supervisor Bill Campbell Endorses Van Tran

2/04/2004 Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher Joins List of Van Tran Endorsers

2/03/2004 Tran Voter Registration Drive Nets 1,500 New Republicans in just 5 weeks