Amid gifts of flowers, hand-made placards and shouts of “We love you Loretta!” from a crowd of approximately 20 people, Rep. Loretta Sanchez–Orange County's lone Democratic voice in Congress–returned from a trip to Vietnam.
A website, perhaps tied to Sanchez, has posted a video of her arrival celebration at Los Angeles International Airport. You can see it here.
Details of her trip aren't yet know. Hell, I didn't even know she was gone. Communist Party officials, who govern Vietnam, haven't always been happy with Sanchez's focus on human rights abuses.
With the growing influence of Vietnamese American voters in central Orange County elections, Sanchez can't lose by challenging Vietnamese government officials to make democratic reforms and allow greater religious freedom.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.