{"id":52490,"date":"2024-08-06T09:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-mayors-staffer-sues-over-communist-label\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:13:11","slug":"san-jose-mayors-staffer-sues-over-communist-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-mayors-staffer-sues-over-communist-label\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose mayor\u2019s staffer sues over communist label"},"content":{"rendered":"
A worker in the San Jose mayor\u2019s office is caught in a political storm surging through Little Saigon\u2019s war refugee generation over claims of communist sympathies. Tara Dang, who conducts neighborhood outreach\u00a0for Mayor Matt Mahan\u00a0in a city with the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam, sued 28 people in May for defamation. The list ranges from local Vietnamese journalists to a school board member, all of whom Dang claims wrongly smeared her as a Vietnamese government sympathizer. Her lawsuit came under new focus the following month, after she testified in a San Jose councilmember\u2019s restraining order case against a powerful…\u00a0<\/p>\n