.amyphanwest is pledging to find common ground, without compromising an inch, if elected this fall to represent California’s newly configured 47th Congressional District.
The Orange County Republican is likely to discover that achieving her goal is even more difficult than two immediate challenges: outpacing Republican Scott Baugh in California’s top-two primary on June 7 and, if she were to advance to the November ballot, ousting incumbent Rep. Katie Porter . The 47th Congressional District was drawn to elect Democrats, and Porter is a rather popular and well-funded Democrat. As of May 18, the congresswoman reported accumulating $18.
“Finding common ground means sticking with your core values. I’m not going to compromise or be bought out by special interest lobbyists,” Phan West, 41, told the Washington Examiner. “I will be the voice of the people.”BILL BARR SAYS TRUMP SHOULD NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN IN 2024 Some Republicans in various states are supportive of such legislation, and other restrictions, such as raising the age to purchase certain firearms from 18 to 21. Bipartisan negotiations on such proposals are underway in the Senate. But Phan West said mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, should not serve as a predicate for chipping away at the Second Amendment.
As a child in the mid-1980s, Phan West fled Vietnam with her family. After a couple of years in refugee camps abroad, Phan West’s family was admitted to the United States, settling in Orange County, where other Vietnamese immigrants had landed. And like so many others who fled Vietnam’s communist regime, Phan West would end up identifying as a Republican in part because the Republicans in the latter years of the Cold War, led by President Ronald Reagan, were staunch anti-communists.
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