Voted No on AB 495 Senate third reading September 10, 2025 and SB 627 concurrence September 11, the Family Preparedness Plan and law-enforcement-mask measures. His September statement calls SB 627 a "dangerous and reckless anti-law enforcement bill" and criticizes AB 495 as government overreach. No skilled-visa position was found in the checked sources. (statement; SB 627 votes; AB 495 votes).

On the Huntington Beach council he "opposed legislatively-imposed high-density housing requirements," against SB 9/10-style state preemption. In the Senate he authored SB 885 proposing legislative approval of regulations with $50M+ impacts (a deregulation measure, not housing production) and coauthored Tri Ta's AB 760 (2026), which as introduced would have extended mobilehome-park tenancy protections up to 36 months; a gut-and-amend removed those provisions in August 2026 and the bill was vetoed, so they did not become law. Nothing on affordable-housing production or protection of AAPI neighborhoods was found (Senate bio; legislation page). [Senate bio] [legislation page]

Authored SB 1133 (2026), the "Ready to Learn, Ready for Health Act," signed by Gov. Newsom in August 2026, directing the next health-education framework revision. Coauthored AB 2294 establishing Sylvia Mendez Day (April 14), commemorating the Mendez v. Westminster school-desegregation case, inclusive-history legislation authored by the district's Vietnamese American assemblymember. Nothing in his record touches AANHPI/ethnic-studies curriculum mandates, choice or admissions specifically (leginfo; Senate release, Aug 2026). Rating basis: Personally authored an enacted curriculum-framework law, a substantive implemented result. Apply the same enacted-curriculum leadership boundary asTa rather than 4 solely for a different subject.

Voted No on AB 667 in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development on July 14, 2025 (8-1-2). The bill concerned professional-license examinations and interpreters. This is a language-access vote; his separate DMV letter asking for clear communication is not evidence of multilingual-services advocacy. (official votes). Rating basis: Direct committee No on professional-license interpreter access. One version-specific vote, not an all-services position.

Authored SB 926 proposing Proposition 36 funding and SB 1027 proposing a street- prostitution task force; both were held in Senate Appropriations May 14, 2026. SB 1015 proposed criminal penalties for online extortion of minors and was held in Assembly Appropriations August 13. These proposals did not become law. Opposed SB 627 as anti- police. No AAPI-hate-crime statement was found in the checked sources. (SB 926 history; SB 1027 history; August suspense results). Rating basis: Authored specific public-safety funding, task-force and online-extortion proposals. Introduced/held bills, not laws. BroadJustice 4 applies just as for other concrete policing/safety proposals.

His 2026 candidate-submitted survey says he resigned from the Trump administration in 2019 to protest family separation. That is his reported account, not independently verified employment history. It supplies an immigration-policy signal beyond his federal law- enforcement career and anti-tariff work. No H-1B or SB 54 position was found in the checked sources. (2026 candidate survey). Rating basis: His candidate-submitted account opposes family separation. Federal law-enforcement employment is not itself an adverse immigration-policy action. Remove the unsupported mixed- record inference; label the statement as his account.

His 2026 candidate-submitted survey supports expanding housing production with strong labor standards. In May 2022 he opposed by-right housing mandates and favored local control and incentives. His campaign also claims smart-growth and affordable-housing advocacy on the council. A vote aggregator lists individual housing votes, but the linked city meeting currently lacks published actions; those votes are not treated as verified here. (candidate survey; Coast News; city meeting).

In a May 2022 interview supported more robust public preschool and a strong public- education system. His candidate-submitted 2024 survey called for fully funding K-12, cutting tuition at public universities and supporting local job training. These are dated education positions, not verified AANHPI-curriculum or admissions proposals. (Coast News; candidate survey). Rating basis: Explicit dated K 12 funding, preschool, tuition and job-training positions. Dated platform evidence, not enacted result; specific support meets 4.

No multilingual-services or ballot-access plank on any campaign page and no statements found. His site is English-only.

A career justice record without a hate-crime item: 15 years in federal law enforcement including federal prosecution of smuggling, trafficking and child-predator cases, a concern salient to AAPI communities, plus council expansion of police deployment and social- worker outreach teams. No hate-crime legislation, anti-Asian-violence statement or policing-reform record was located (campaign site). Rating basis: Campaign about page specifically claims police deployment and social-worker outreach teams. Attribute as campaign account, not independently verified individual council vote. Specific program position meets 4; career employment alone does not.