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Andrew Do
Member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors from the 1st district
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 3, 2015
Preceded byJanet Nguyen
Member of the Garden Grove City Council
In office
December 9, 2008 – April 12, 2011
Preceded byMark S. Rosen
Succeeded byKris Beard
Chair of the Orange County Board of Supervisors
In office
January 3, 2021 – January 12, 2022
Preceded byMichelle Steel
Succeeded byDoug Chaffee
Personal details
BornSaigon, South Vietnam
Political partyRepublican
EducationUniversity of California, Davis (BA)
University of California, Hastings College of Law (JD)

Andrew Do (Template:Lang-vi) is an American politician currently serving as Orange County Supervisor, representing the First District. He is a Republican.[1]

As of March 2022, he is a candidate for California State Treasurer and if elected would be the first Vietnamese-American to be elected statewide in California.[2]

Early life

Do fled with his family from Vietnam to the United States following the Fall of Saigon, with only the clothes they were wearing and a "suitcase full of dictionaries."[3] Do grew up in Garden Grove, California.[4]

Education

Do attended UC Davis. Do earned a JD from Hastings College of the Law.[4]

Career

In 2007, Do served as the chief of staff for Janet Nguyen, a politician from Southern California.[5]

Do was a city council member of Garden Grove, California. Do was a Deputy District Attorney of Orange County. Do was an Adjunct Professor at California State University of Fullerton.[4]

Do has served on several professional boards, including the Vietnamese-American Bar Association of Southern California and the Orange County Bar Association.

Throughout his career, Do has been a staunch opponent to Marxist ideologies after seeing the destructive effects of communism in Vietnam. Despite this, however, Do has been subjected to racist abuse while serving in his official capacity as supervisor.

During one particularly nasty round of public comments in summer of 2021, one speaker, under the pseudonym of "Tyler Durden" (named after a paranoid delusion from the movie and book "Fight Club), told Do: “You come to my country, and you act like one of these communist parasites. I ask you to go the f--- back to Vietnam," either unaware or unconcerned that Do is an American citizen and has lived in the country for more than 46 years.[6]

Controversies

Do has been accused by his political opponents of residency fraud, stating that his primary residence is outside the district he serves (First District) and is instead in North Tustin (Third District).[7] However, Do denied the allegations, proved to be a homeowner in the district and has not been found of any wrongdoing.[8]

CalOptima

In March 2017, Do attempted to become the supervisor to CalOptima, Orange County's $3.7 billion publicy-funded health insurance plan for low-income citizens. His bid was rejected by the CalOptima board of directors.[9] Do then attempted, but was blocked by state legislators, to take control of CalOptima by proposing that all 5 board members of the OC Board of Supervisors become board members of CalOptima. When a fellow supervisor said the takeover effort was motivated by being rejected as chairman, Do did not respond and instead reiterated his qualifications to be chairman.[10] The move was also seen as an attempt to pull CalOptima back from the medical industry and install elected-officials instead, after a former county supervisor and lobbyist gave the industry control in 2011.[11]

Do eventually became chairman of CalOptima in 2020, making him the first Vietnamese American to take this seat.[12] At this time, he hired Veronica Carpenter, one of his longtime advisors, to the newly-created chief of staff role, paying $282,000 plus benefits.[13] Multiple former CalOptima chairmen raised concern given Carpenter having less than a year of hospital administration experience.[13] [14]

In 2021, Do led the effort on the board to appoint Blair Contratto as the hospital administrator of CalOptima, despite Contratto lacking experience in Orange County.[15] This caused a rare public rebuke by the Hospital Association of Southern California noting that diverging from the traditional appointment of a local leader "disregards the breadth of knowledge and experience our hospital leaders bring to CalOptima".[15][14] Under Do's leadership as board chair, CalOptima has increasingly become under fire for its substantial turnover in key positions and salaries having jumped significantly (from $400,000 to at least $560,000 for the CEO position). [14]

In February 2022, the board abruptly fired its entire in-house legal team of attorneys and support staff in a closed session meeting.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ Do, Anh. "O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do moves closer to reelection in hotly contested race". Latimes.com. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  2. ^ service, City News Service City News Service is the nation’s largest regional wire; Angeles, is headquartered in Los (March 10, 2022). "Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do declares candidacy for state treasurer". Daily Pilot. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
  3. ^ "Orange County, California – Meet Andrew". Ocgov.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; June 16, 2019 suggested (help)
  4. ^ a b c "Andrew Do, Orange County Supervisor 1st District". octa.net. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  5. ^ Vo, Thy (May 17, 2016). "Once a Mentor to Do, Nguyen Now a Fierce For". voiceofoc.org. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  6. ^ "In Orange County, Anti-Vaccine Activists Attack Top Elected Official For His Vietnamese Heritage". LAist. July 30, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
  7. ^ Gerda, Nick (September 22, 2020). "OC Supervisor Andrew Do Accused of Residency Fraud Again as He Runs for Re-Election". Voice of OC. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  8. ^ "O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do dismisses allegation that he lives outside his district". Orange County Register. April 14, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
  9. ^ Gerda, Nick (March 3, 2017). "Supervisor Andrew Do Loses Bid for CalOptima Chair". Voice of OC. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  10. ^ Gerda, Nick (July 26, 2017). "OC Supervisors' Attempted Takeover of CalOptima Health Plan Appears Dead". Voice of OC. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  11. ^ Gerda, Nick (July 26, 2017). "OC Supervisors' Attempted Takeover of CalOptima Health Plan Appears Dead". Voice of OC. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
  12. ^ "OC Supervisor Andrew Do Unanimously Selected as Chair of the CalOptima Board of Directors". Orange County. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  13. ^ a b Gerda, Nick (December 27, 2021). "Local Politicos Fuel Takeover of Orange County's Health Plan For the Poor". Voice of OC. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  14. ^ a b c d Staggs, Brooke (February 7, 2022). "CalOptima abruptly fires entire legal team as concerns mount over agency's direction". Orange County Register. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  15. ^ a b Gerda, Nick (November 30, 2021). "OC Supervisors Make Controversial Hospital Executive Appointment to Public Health Plan Board". Voice of OC. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
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