Tran Voter Registration Drive Nets 1,500 New Republicans in just 5 weeks
(Garden Grove) - Garden Grove Councilman and 68th Assembly District Republican frontrunner “Van Tran“ announced today that 1,500 new Orange County Republican voters have been registered in the closing weeks of 2003.

"I am extremely pleased with the results," said Van Tran. "Our President will need as many Republican votes from California as we can muster, and I am committed to delivering this state for his re-election."

" I expect several thousand more new Republicans to register from our efforts alone," added Tran.

With a goal of registering 20,000 new GOP voters in and around the 68th Assembly District, the voter registration project is similar in design to highly successful previous Vietnamese-American registration efforts. The 68th Assembly District has one of California's highest concentrations of Asian and Pacific Islander residents, a majority of whom are of Vietnamese descent. These numbers are just those certified through December 2003, with thousands more expected before the February 16th deadline.

"Mark Leyes has attacked Van Tran for registering Republican Voters, which to me seems just ludicrous," said Van Tran spokesman Paul Hegyi. "Leyes just doesn't get it. Van has been working extremely hard to bring the Viet community into the Republican column, and the latest results clearly prove his effectiveness. Perhaps Leyes should stop attacking and start helping register Republicans."

Leyes, a former Democrat campaign operative, actively worked to defeat Republicans back in the nineties, while Van Tran was working to advance the Republican agenda.