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'''Hong Thi Tran''' (born ] ]) was a candidate in the ] ] ] for the ] in 2006, challenging incumbent ]. Tran received more than 5% 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 the ] and local ].<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><ref name="deserves to lose">{{cite news | url=http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060918-105742-6654r.htm | title=Party rival says Cantwell deserves to lose over war | publisher=The Washington Times | author=Christina Bellantoni | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref> Tran is the first Vietnamese-American in the state to run for U.S. Senate, and possibly the first in the country to do so, according to Carol Vu of the Northwest Asian Weekly, who considered Tran's campaign to be "historic." |
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==Biography== |
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Tran's family lived in ], ] from her birth until they fled the country during the ] to the Communist forces in the spring of 1975, when she was almost eight years old. They escaped ], then were picked up by a ] vessel. They were moved through various refugee camps, eventually making it to the ], and settling in ], ].<ref name="campaign site">{{cite web | url=http://hongtran.com/about.php | title=About Hong | publisher=Hong Tran for U.S. Senate | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref><ref name="The Others"/> |
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Tran earned a ] from ] in ], ] in 1988. After taking a year off to earn money for tuition, she attended ] at the ] College of Law, receiving her ] in 1992. Tran's start in the ] legal services field started during law school, when she began volunteering at Utah Legal Services, a nonprofit agency providing free civil legal services to low-income families. There she specialized in ], ], ], ], and ] issues. |
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After graduation, she decided to continue providing legal services to the ] and received a ] to work at Legal Services of North Carolina. After her fellowship, she moved to ] Legal Services where she specialized in child custody cases involving abusive relationships for a year. In 1996, she began working at the Northwest Justice Project in ]. The next 10 years were at the Northwest Justice Project; the first eight were as a Staff Attorney working on advocacy for ] and individuals facing housing discrimination or eviction, including co-authoring briefs submitted to the ]. Between 2004 and 2006, when she resigned her position to campaign, she was an Advocacy Coordinator, mentoring new attorneys and supporting other advocates at her organization. <ref name="campaign site"/> |
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==2006 Election== |
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{{main|Washington United States Senate election, 2006}} |
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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> After Mark Wilson, a fellow anti-Iraq War candidate, dropped out of the ], endorsed Cantwell, and accepted a position on her campaign staff as "outreach coordinator" with a salary of $8,000 per month, Tran's campaign began receiving more attention, as she was the only anti-war Democratic candidate left in the primary at that time.<ref name=Postman>{{cite web | url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2003115000_postman09m.html | title=Cantwell's primary foe turns friend | publisher=Seattle Times | author=David Postman | date=] | accessdate=2006-09-22}}</ref> One day later, Tran was contacted by Del LaMagna (a progressive activist and organizer who himself had been hired by the Cantwell campaign the day before Wilson) 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 those in 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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Both media reports and Tran's campaign press releases 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"/> |
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