Honest Hon Lien and the Liens
9:30 AM - Link to this article.
A few days ago, Hon Lien was the first District 4 candidate in the mail, dropping a hit piece attacking Kansen Chu for having dirty buckets in his restaurant and having tax liens against his company. The piece, a four page spread, mentions these liens against Ocean Harbor Restaurant and shows a lien for delinquent garbage service. The question asked, in bold red type at the bottom of the page, is, "How can we trust Kansen Chu at City Hall with his track record?" You can see the key page here (PDF, 500k).
Well, guess what. According to a very revealing tip and file sent to us, Hon had it wrong. Completely wrong.
Turns out there are two Ocean Harbor corporations that were filed with the State. Here's the first:
And the other:
Apparently, shortly after the liens were levied against the restaurant, Kansen Chu bought it.
Astute readers have already guessed that it was the first, non-Kansen Ocean Harbor Inc. that had the all of the liens Hon's mail mentioned, except one, which we'll get to in a moment. Here is a PDF sent by the tipster that contains the various liens against Ocean Harbor, Inc. (PDF, 1.3M. Pages of 2, 1, 5, 8 and 6 of this document correspond to Hon's mail's numbers 1 through 5, in that order. She even got the amount wrong on the first one she lists, as you'll note.)
So this can be attributed either to sloppiness or malice. But the last lien mentioned, the one that is pictured on the mail piece, answers that question. The one pictured on the mail was against a Kansen-owned business, that was leased to a third party, that didn't pay its garbage bills. In other words, of the six called out in the Hon piece, the only one that had any relation to Kansen was the one that was pictured. And even it, mind you, wasn't his fault.
The odds that it is coincidence, that Hon should happen to put up the one lien that actually was related to Kansen of the six, are about 17%. Wouldn't want those odds on an operating table. Seems pretty clear that Hon Lien, her patron Chuck Reed, and her campaign consultant / city employee Vic Ajlouny knew what they were doing.
The question that must be asked, then, is: How can we trust Hon Lien at City Hall with her track record?
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3 Comments:
It can be attributed to the fact that Victor Ajlouny is a coward and Hon Lien is a coward. Think of it, Victor, who is too much of a personal coward to respond to the Mission City Lantern, or San Jose Revealed (and we have heard about how much he yells and screams at young women), is attacking Kansen Chu with false information. Ps, Victor is being paid by the City of San Jose to falsify documents and to initmidate and harass young people that want to volunteer for the city.
Chuck hired and Chuck can fire him.
Victor, you have 12 hours to respond to these charges before they are presented to the Council in open session on Tuesday. As for Hon Lien, the bankruptcy trustee has already been asked to deal with you.
This is a new low by Lien, and one has to wonder when exactly the Mercury is going to decide to inform the voters in District 4 about these issues. There is no excuse for her actions and an apology isn't going to undo the damage done to Kansen Chu by her lies. She needs to owe up to her responsibility and send a letter to each and every person who received her dishonest mailer.
And speaking of "silence" Reed must think that Hon's actions are right in line with how he wants to run San Jose given how he has not issued one statement on Lien's lies.
Mission Accomplished Chuck! Your administration has beaten Gonzales on how long it took to become corrupt:
Gonzo: 4 years
Reed: 4 months
I am officially asking Chuck Reed to fire Victor Ajlouny or face a ethics committe charge
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