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Bob Huff Supports Ling-Ling Chang

Posted by OC Insider on April 23, 2014

This is an excellent piece written by Bob Huff on Ling-Ling Chang and why she is the best choice for voters in the 55th Assembly District.

Senator Bob Huff

California’s 29th District | Senate Republican Leader

I’m supporting Diamond Bar Councilwoman Ling-Ling Chang for the State Assembly because she has the kind of experience and values we need in the Legislature.

On the City Council, Ling balanced every budget, never raised taxes, built a $17 million reserve and helped make her city one of the safest in California.

As an elected member of a local water board, she worked to ensure reliable delivery of water without raising taxes or rates. During her time as President and CEO of the Youth Science Center, she worked with young people to emphasize science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills.

And, as a Councilmember, she’s working to create new jobs and cut her own pay to help the city stretch its tax dollars.

Ling-Ling Chang is the real deal. She has been solving problems in our region for almost 10 years as a Water Board member, City Councilmember and Mayor. I’m grateful that I’ve been able to rely on her advice and live in a city she helps govern.

Now, more than ever, we need honest and fresh leadership. I believe we have found, can find and will continue to find that leadership in Ling-Ling Chang. Ling has earned my support time and again, and I hope she can earn your support in the June primary, as well.

Bob Huff
Senate Republican Leader

Ling-Ling Chang for Assembly 2014

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AD-55 Watch: Ling-Ling Chang Quacks 2.0: Jobs Plan Falls Short

Posted by Allen Wilson on April 21, 2014

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Recently, Ling-Ling Chang sent out a mail piece to voters in the Orange County portion of the 55th Assembly District.

The mail piece touts her “5 Point Plan to Create New Jobs”, which needs thorough plucking and inspection:

Proposal:  Reform the tax code to focus on job creation.

Reality:  Unfortunately, Chang was MIA as newly elected Walnut-Valley Water Board Director during the 2006 Diamond Bar’s Measure L ($34 Million Parcel Tax) that would have levied huge tax on residential, industrial and commercial property owners in perpetuity tied with COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment). 

Proposal:  Reduce regulatory burdens that chase jobs out of state.

Reality:  In 2010, Councilwoman Chang voted to raise fees across the board tied with COLA for the next three years.  We reported this issue regarding Steve Tye’s Fee-Tax Flip.

Proposal:  Tax incentives for employers who hire new workers.

Reality:  Such tax incentives has already been in place for years as employers are generally aware of the current $9,600 Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC).

Proposal:  Cut government waste to keep taxes down.

Reality:  Chang is endorsed by Senator Huff who was one of five GOP Senators who voted Yes on SB 11 (Pavley) that raised $2 Billion tax increase extension for smog abatement, vehicle registrations, boat registrations and tires.

Chang’s Jobs Plan falls short as her proposals which are dramatically different from the reality of the facts.

Therefore, the voters in the 55th Assembly District deserves better than a plucked chicken that would even fail the USDA inspection.

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AD-55 Watch: Crime Victims United Endorses Phillip Chen for Assembly

Posted by Allen Wilson on April 21, 2014

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We received this press release from the Phillip Chen for State Assembly campaign:

Crime Victims United of California (CVUC), the state’s leading crime victim advocacy group, has endorsed Republican Phillip Chen in the race for the 55th Assembly District.

 

“As a Reserve Deputy Sheriff, Phillip Chen is part of the public safety community. He is dedicated to protecting our neighborhoods and schools and to standing up for the rights of crime victims,” said CVUC President Harriet Salarno. “We are proud to join with Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos, former L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley and others in our law enforcement community in endorsing Phillip Chen to be the next Assemblyman from the 55th district.”

 

Phillip Chen is a local Republican leader, small business owner, elected school board member, and reserve deputy sheriff. He recently received his doctorate degree from the University of Southern California.

 

Phillip is running in the 55th Assembly district with the support of incumbent Republican Assemblyman Curt Hagman.

 

Crime Victims United of California is comprised of two distinct, yet complementary groups — a legislative advocacy arm that works to strengthen victims’ rights laws and a political action committee that lends its endorsement and financial backing to pro-victim candidates.

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AD-55 Watch: Ling-Ling Chang Quacks out of SGV Tribune Editorial Board Meeting

Posted by Allen Wilson on April 14, 2014

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune Editorial Board had an Q & A session with the candidates running for State Assembly in the 55th Assembly District.

Assembly candidates Phillip Chen (R), Steve Tye (R) and Greg Fritchle (D) attended the meeting with the paper.

Unfortunately, Ling-Ling Chang was a no-show for a meeting with the Editorial Board.  Chang also skipped out of last Tuesday’s candidate forum at the Salt and Light Ministry at Calvary Chapel in Diamond Bar.

Is it possible that she snubbed the meeting with the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, because she did not earn the paper’s endorsement when she first ran for Diamond Bar City Council in 2009?

Though, Chang thought it was important to let the world know via Twitter that two mallard ducks came by her campaign headquarters last Saturday in Brea.

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However, Chang should realize that quacking out of a meeting with the San Gabriel Valley Tribune is nothing to quack about.

If the voters in the 55th Assembly District can’t take Chang seriously as their next Assemblymember, then her candidacy is just all about quacks.

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Phillip Chen Not Truthful with O.C. Register

Posted by OC Insider on April 12, 2014

AD 55 Candidates Phillip Chen and Ling-Ling Chang

AD 55 Candidates Phillip Chen and Ling-Ling Chang

When Phil Chen was asked why he claimed his occupation was “Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff” when he was really a county health care employee, Phil told the O.C. Register he served as a reserve for 20 hours a month.

Chen told the newspaper that he’s served “about 20 hours a month in the job since 2007” and “makes no apologies for the representation.”

Yet since 2010, Chen has averaged 2.1 hours a week – not the 20 hours/month he falsely claimed.

Los Angeles County records show that the only time Chen has been seen in uniform in 2014 is in his campaign literature. In fact, since 2010, there have been 30 individual months where he did not show up even once.

Phillip Chen chose to answer a question about him making a false claim about his occupation by making a false claim about what he did as a reserve.

Count on him to follow-up with another false claim about Ling-Ling Chang!

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AD-55 Watch: Hugh Nguyen endorses Phillip Chen

Posted by Allen Wilson on April 10, 2014

We just received this press release from Phillip Chen for Assembly Campaign that popular Orange County Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen endorses Chen for Assembly:

Orange County Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen Endorses Chen for Assembly

ORANGE COUNTY, CA – Today Phillip Chen announced the endorsement of another high ranking Orange County Republican elected official. Phillip announced Orange County Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen’s support in his campaign for State Assembly. Phillip continues to build on his momentum in the campaign for the 55th Assembly District.

Hugh Nguyen cited Chen’s commitment to reforming state tax and business policies as reason for support. “In the Assembly Phillip Chen will protect taxpayers, reform government, and work to cut through the red tape that holds back small businesses in our area. That’s why I’m supporting him.”

Nguyen joins a list of Orange County local leaders and elected officials that already includes Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, Supervisor Shawn Nelson and Assemblymembers Diane Harkey and Travis Allen.

Phillip Chen is a Republican, small business owner, educator and reserve deputy sheriff. The 55th Assembly District is split between Orange, San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties.

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AD-55 Watch: Ling-Ling Chang’s Embellishment 2.0

Posted by Allen Wilson on April 8, 2014

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On March 28, 2014, we reported about Assembly Candidate Ling-Ling Chang’s biography was scrutinized, which has gotten a lot of attention inside the 55th Assembly District and beyond.

On March 7, 2014, Ling-Ling attempted to embellish her ballot designation as the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters listed Chang’s ballot designation as “Councilwoman/Educator/Executive”

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Unfortunately, the problem is that she is hardly an “Educator” or an “Executive”.

In the 2013 Diamond Bar City Council contest Ling-Ling used her ballot designation as “Diamond Bar Councilmember/Educator” and got away with it, but not this time around.

Chang got caught red-handed by the California Secretary of State, which determined that she is neither of those occupations.

The Secretary of State proceed by changing her ballot designation to just “City Councilwoman”.

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Yes, the Secretary of State is correct in making the correction for Chang to the appropriate occupation, which is what she is a part-time Councilmember making $746 a month ($8,952 annually) PLUS $1,100 defined benefits granted to her (retirement, medical, dental and other perks courtesy of Diamond Bar taxpayers).

Therefore, it is known that she isn’t an educator and she isn’t an executive making weighty decisions like meeting payroll, managing huge staff and other pressures businessmen and businesswomen face everyday.

Of course, we know by now that she doesn’t even have a college degree.

In light of the recent sordid stories coming out of Sacramento regarding the scandals involving Senators Calderon, Wright and Yee, embellishing the occupation and biography of a candidate such as Ling-Ling Chang has no place in the legislature.

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Phillip Chen Intentionally Deceived Voters About His Occupation

Posted by OC Insider on April 7, 2014

In 2011, when Phillip Chen ran for the Walnut Valley Unified school board he listed his occupation as “Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff.”

The problem is Chen was a full-time Los Angeles County employee at the time he made his false claims – not a full-time cop.

AD 55 Candidates Phillip Chen and Ling-Ling Chang

AD 55 Candidates Phillip Chen and Ling-Ling Chang

Yes, Mr. Chen is a reserve officer who makes $1/year for his services, but he has never been a LA Deputy Sheriff. No amount of training or volunteer work changes the fact that Chen intentionally deceived voters about his occupation and tried to conceal the fact that he was a county health care employee from them.

Apparently embarrassed by his true occupation, Chen is now campaigning for State Assembly as a “small business owner” – despite the fact that he remains a well-paid L.A. county health care employee.

During his school board campaign, Phillip Chen also claims he was a faculty member at Cal-State Fullerton for six years and that he started teaching there in 2000. But, Chen didn’t graduate until 2002 – after he claims he was on the faculty!

Unfortunately for Chen, Cal-State Fullerton verifies that Chen only taught there from August 18, 2005 – June 2, 2006 and again from August 17, 2007 until January 2, of 2008. 13 months of teaching does not equal the six years Chen claims to have taught at Cal-State Fullerton.

One would think professor Chen was teaching high-level academic classes during his disputed “tenure” at Cal-State Fullerton. But, an internet service called “Rate My Professors” gives Phil high marks for teaching Wushu (martial arts) at Cal-State Fullerton to “hot students.”

Voters might have looked at his experience in a different light had they known “professor” Chen’s job was working up a sweat in the college gym with coeds.

Finally, Phillip claims he was “appointed by Governor Pete Wilson to serve for the Governor’s Office of Criminal Justice Planning, where he worked on legislation involving foster care, gang prevention, drug awareness, mental health, and Planned Parenthood.”

Given the fact that Phillip Chen duped voters into electing him to the school board by making false claims, one has to wonder about whether Pete Wilson really entrusted a 20-year-old to do all that.

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Ling-Ling Endorsed by the San Bernardino County GOP

Posted by OC Insider on April 2, 2014

Since I’m tired of seeing Allen Wilson’s overtly one-sided bias against Ling-Ling Chang…

imageLing-Ling Chang has amassed more endorsements from public officials and political organizations than her top two opponents combined.

In this hotly contested race, she’s gotten the support of Congressman Ed Royce and Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, whose districts both cover the entirety of the 55th District which Ling is running in. She’s also been endorsed by Congressman Paul Cook, Board of Equalization Member Michelle Steel, Senator Mimi Walters, LA County Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Don Knabe, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rauckauckas, San Bernardino County Supervisors Janice Rutherford and Gary Ovitt, and most recently, she announced that she earned the support of the San Bernardino County Republican Party (see below).

This came today:

http://www.ling4assembly.com/sbgop

 

Ling-Ling Endorsed by the San Bernardino County GOP

For Immediate Release March 28, 2014

Diamond Bar City Councilwoman and candidate for the state Assembly Ling-Ling Chang built on her continued momentum by receiving the endorsement of the San Bernardino County Republican Party last night.

“I’m grateful for the support of the San Bernardino County Republican Party,” said Chang. She added, “Californians can count on me to work hard to cut government waste and fight taxes in the Assembly and to put the ‘free’ back in free enterprise.”

“Ling-Ling Chang has proven an incredible commitment to helping the private sector grow our economy,” said County Supervisor Gary Ovitt, who is a past San Bernardino County Republican Party Chairman. “Republicans can be confident that she will continue to fight for small businesses by getting government out of their way in the Assembly,” he added.

In addition to the San Bernardino County Republican Party, Chang has earned the endorsements of Congressman Ed Royce, Congressman Paul Cook, state Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford and Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas. Chang has also received the strong support of the Orange County Young Republicans, Inland Valley Young Republicans, San Bernardino County Young Republicans as well as Senators Mimi Walters and Tom Berryhill, and Assemblymembers Diane Harkey and Don Wagner.

Ling-Ling Chang has been twice elected to the Diamond Bar City Council and served as Mayor in 2011-2012; she previously served as an elected member of the Walnut Valley Water District’s Board of Directors, including a term as Board President. Councilwoman Chang has focused on job creation and economic development, fighting tax increases and helping private enterprise through removing regulatory burdens. Chang, who also served as President and CEO of the Youth Science Center, was previously honored as “Woman of the Year” by the California State Assembly. Her husband, Andrew, is an accomplished attorney and active community leader.

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Ling-Ling Chang for Assembly 2014
http://www.ling4assembly.com/

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AD-55 Watch: Biographies Scrutinized

Posted by Allen Wilson on March 28, 2014

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The Orange County Register published an article scrutinizing the Assembly candidates biographies, but candidate Ling-Ling Chang education claims gets top grilling.

The view of the article is behind a firewall, which requires payment to have reading privileges.

It has been reported in previous campaign materials, publications and city of Diamond Bar website that Chang earned a degree in Biology from UC, Riverside and attending Harvard.

However, the article explains on the contrary that Chang has no degree in biology, which means she dropped out of UC Riverside and Chang explained that she is doing her studies “online” for a degree from Harvard.

Sadly, Chang offers no apologies for attending Harvard, but she should be reminded that attending an Ivy League university physically on campus is totally different than one taking courses behind a keyboard.

Unfortunately, Chang faults the inaccuracies to the City of Diamond Bar Public Information Officer, which is an insult to the professionalism of a municipal employee that is of high regard in and out of Diamond Bar City Hall.

If an Assembly candidate spends all of the time going to meetings as a councilmember on the taxpayers dime should have gone to night school and gotten a degree instead of polishing a political résumé for far too long.

It is ironic that an Assembly candidate is using SCA 5 on a campaign platform who only holds a high school diploma.

We are in a midst of a campaign season and candidates should be grilled until Election Day.

As for one candidate to embellish education claims brings bad taste who is being endorsed by high profile Republican elected officials such as Rep. Ed Royce and Senate Minority Leader Senator Bob Huff.

The voters in the 55th Assembly District deserves the truth as to who will be their next Assemblymember.

It is good to know now than with regrets for the constituents who could be stuck with a legislator for the next 2 or 12 years.

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