"Agents Search Calif. Candidate's Office" REPUBLICAN, Nguyen

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Agents Search Calif. Candidate's Office
By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer


Tan D. Nguyen, a Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. ...
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - State investigators on Friday searched an office of a Republican congressional candidate whose campaign mailed thousands of intimidating letters to Hispanic immigrant voters.

About 10 uniformed California Department of Justice agents arrived with a search warrant and could be seen opening cabinets, scouring desks and packing up a computer inside the storefront campaign office of Tan D. Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant trying to unseat a popular Democratic incumbent.

Nguyen has acknowledged that his campaign sent the letter, which wrongly said immigrants could be jailed if they voted. He blamed a campaign worker he said he has fired.

Nguyen has resisted calls from leaders in his own party to quit the race, saying he did not approve the letter and did not know about it.<snip>

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1. This dude is one strange opportunist:

In 2004, he unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary to challenge GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in a heavily Republican coastal district. He later changed his party affiliation and declared his bid to upset Sanchez; he has made his opposition to illegal immigration a centerpiece of his campaign...

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2592743&page=2