Voted No on SB 627 Assembly third reading (September 9, 2025) and AB 495 concurrence (September 11), the law-enforcement-mask and Family Preparedness Plan measures also used as immigration-adjacent evidence for Strickland. These are relevant floor votes, not an H-1B position or proof of motive about every clause. (SB 627 votes; AB 495 votes). Rating basis: No votes on the same immigration-adjacent protections used to score Strickland 2. These are version-specific protection votes, not an H-1B stance.

Ta authored AB 760 (2026), which as introduced would have extended emergency rental authority for mobilehome parks for up to 36 months; those provisions were removed by a gut-and-amend in August 2026 and the bill was vetoed, so they did not become law. That is a limited housing and mobilehome-tenancy record, not broad zoning or CEQA reform (leginfo AB 760). His platform's "local control" language is planning-adjacent without a community-protection record; no SB 9 or CEQA position was verified. A general-plan annual-reporting bill earlier attributed to him was traced to a different candidate and is excluded (campaign site). Rating basis: Personally authored specific mobilehome-tenancy protection proposal. Not enacted and later removed; the original proposal still meets 4 just as other specific narrow bills do.

Authored an enacted curriculum-related law and a commemorative resolution. AB 1805 (chaptered Sep 20, 2024) requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider including Mendez v. Westminster content when the State Board adopts new history-social- science materials on or after January 1, 2025; he presented it in committee with plaintiff Sylvia Mendez. ACR 5 (chaptered May 11, 2023) proclaimed April 2023 as Black April Memorial Month, commemorating the Fall of Saigon and Vietnamese refugee history (leginfo; leginfo). [leginfo] [leginfo]

On record advocating Vietnamese-language civic access. As mayor he publicly urged the RNC's community-center effort to hire "a full-time, year-round Vietnamese American cultural ambassador who can help bridge the language and cultural barriers that prevent people from civic participation." Voted Aye on AB 667 Assembly third reading June 3, 2025 (71-0-7), concerning professional-license examinations and interpreters; the bill changed after that vote (Politico, Aug 2021). (AB 667 votes). [Politico, Aug 2021] Rating basis: Add direct AB 667 Assembly Aye to earlier Vietnamese civic-access advocacy. This is a substantive language-access vote.

As mayor he championed and passed a city resolution alleging improper interference by the government of Vietnam in Westminster politics, a transnational-repression concern salient to Vietnamese Americans, and his ACR 5 memorializes refugee history. He campaigns pro-law-enforcement. VietRISE and a coalition of Orange County Vietnamese and civil-rights groups publicly criticized him in 2019 for "failing to take action to defend the human rights of immigrant and refugee communities." No hate-crime-specific record was found (Voice of OC, Sep 2019; VietRISE, Aug 2019).

Rated on statements only. Clear, dated public support. In her May 2026 Orange County Register questionnaire she called federal enforcement in communities "the weaponization of fear against people who are our neighbors, our coworkers, and the backbone of our communities," said "California should not be complicit," and backed law-enforcement identification and due-process requirements. Platform-level support; no record in office (OC Register, May 6, 2026).

Rated on statements only. Platform only. Housing stability, renter protections against displacement, and incentivizing "developers to build housing that is genuinely affordable," but also "local control over housing decisions," the same anti-preemption signal as her opponent. No record in office (campaign site). Rating basis: Specific renter displacement protections and incentives for genuinely affordable housing. Local control is not itself adverse under approved balancedA.

Rated on statements only. Platform support: "Invest in early learning, classroom resources, modern facilities, and educator support," with her questionnaire linking children's healthcare to classroom readiness. No position located on AANHPI-history curriculum, school choice or admissions, and no governance record (campaign site; OC Register questionnaire). Rating basis: Explicit early-learning, classroom-resource and educator investment. Statement-only with no AANHPI-history position claimed; specific funding support meets 4.

No statements or planks on multilingual services or ballots were found. PIVOT's own Vietnamese-language civic projects are PIVOT's programs and are not part of her record.

Rated on statements only. She supports adding "robust funding for behavioral health treatment" to Proposition 36, arguing "increased penalties without increased investment in treatment is not a solution," and her safety platform treats housing and healthcare stability as crime prevention. Her biography says that at age 35 a tragic act of domestic violence claimed the life of her four-year-old son and nearly her own life, leaving her widowed. No hate-crime-specific record (OC Register, May 2026). Rating basis: Specific behavioral-health treatment funding accompanying sentencing changes. A concrete violence-prevention/treatment position under broadJustice, not merely generic safety support.