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'''Hong Thi Tran''' was a candidate in the ] ] ] for the ] in 2006, challenging incumbent ]. Tran received slightly less tha 5.1% of the Democratic vote,<ref name=primaryresults>{{cite web | url=http://vote.wa.gov/elections/PrimaryResults/Results.aspx?o=8f43af96-81c1-47c6-8b5f-3ad9dee0e6ad | title=2006 Primary Election Results - U.S. Senator|publisher=Washington Secretary of State|accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref> and her differing views from those of Maria Cantwell (on the ] in particular) drew the attention of at least one political commentator in the ] and a commentator in the Congressional Quarterly's online web site.<ref name="dems unhappy">{{cite web | url=http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/08/dems_unhappy_with_sen_cantwell.html | title=Dems Unhappy With Sen. Cantwell Have an Option in Tran | publisher=CQPolitics.com | author=Jean Chemnick | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref><ref name="The Others">{{cite news | url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/285379_theothers16.html | title=Senate race has national echoes | publisher=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | author=Neil Modie | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
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Tran's family fled ], ] for the ] in the spring of 1975. Tran earned a ] from ] in ], ] in 1988, and a ] in 1992 from the ]. Until 2004, Tran worked at the Northwest Justice Project in ].<ref name="campaign site"/> |
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==2006 Election== |
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Tran, according to her campaign website and media interviews, entered the race for the Democratic nomination for US Senate due to her opposition to the presence of ] in ], ] agreements ] and ], and the ], all of which incumbent Senator Maria Cantwell had voted in favor of.<ref name=KUOW>{{cite web | url=http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=11050 | title=Hong Tran, Democrat for U.S. Senate | publisher=KUOW | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/08/the_cqpolitics_interview_hong.html | title=The CQPolitics Interview: Hong Tran (Wash. Senate) | publisher=CQPolitics.com | author=Jean Chemnick | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref>Tran was contacted by Del LaMagna (a progressive activist and organizer who works for the Cantwell campaign) about joining the Cantwell campaign. Based on the context of the call, Tran interpreted this to be a job offer, which she declined.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/277260_senate12.html | title=Last Cantwell rival believes campaign offered job to end all opposition | publisher=Seattle P-I | author=Neil Modie | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref> These events caused political commentators, like one in each of the '']'' and '']'', to surmise that this was an attempt by the Cantwell campaign to silence the anti-Iraq War opposition in her party.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060723-093644-5778r.htm | title=Washington Senatorial Cliffhanger | publisher=The Washington Times | author=Donald Lambro | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/277134_robert11.html | title=Do hires make her Maria, Queen of Smarts? | publisher=Seattle P-I | author=Robert L. Jamieson Jr. | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref> |
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In an interview with ], a Seattle ] affiliate, Tran noted Cantwell's avoidance of debates and challenged Cantwell to debate with her. Tran criticized Cantwell for not being most electable Democratic candidate because she believes Cantwell has divided the party. Tran speculated that Cantwell had alienated the progressive portion of the state to the extent that many will either stay home or vote for a third party candidate during the general election. Despite Tran's harsh criticism of Senator Cantwell, Tran said that if she loses, she will vote for the Democratic nominee in the general election because she wanted her "vote to count".<ref name=KUOW/> In the ] edition of ''The Washington Times'', Tran was quoted as saying that if she lost in the primary she would "certainly not" endorse Cantwell.<ref name="deserves to lose"/> |
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Tran's campaign press releases and small, progressive media outlets that supported Tran highlighted the lack of support provided to Tran by the state Democratic party leadership, such as restricting her access to the party's voter database and refusing to let her bring campaign signs into a Coordinated Campaign event at Whittier Elementary. Tran claimed that the party leadership was preventing the distribution of information about her campaign to Democratic voters and PCO's in an attempt to control the primary results; party chair Dwight Pelz and spokesman Kelly Steele claimed that her campaign didn't have enough resources to utilize the information in the voter database.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=37188 | title=Crashing the Party | publisher=The Stranger | author=Josh Feit | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref> Despite these differences with the party leadership, Tran was able to win the sole endorsement of Cantwell's home district, the 32nd Legislative District, and shared endorsements with Cantwell in three other legislative districts, the 40th, 25th, and 26th LDs.<ref name="The Others"/>. As 25th DistrictVice Chairman Jim Morrell of Tacoma said in regards to his districts shared endorsement of Cantwell and Tran, "it wasn't a slap against Cantwell, but also it was kind of a feel-good vote, in that at least (people thought) 'I've said something about what's going on in Iraq' and stuff. It wasn't even about 'we shouldn't be there' but rather about how (the war) has been handled."<ref name="The Others"/> |
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Notably, the overwhelming majority of Legislative Districts did not endorse Tran, and, in the Democratic primary, the voters in Legislative Districts across Washington overwhelmingly voted for Cantwell, who received 91% of the vote, and not for Tran, who received slightly less than 5.1% of the vote. |
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