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Assemblyman Tri Ta Announces Bipartisan Effort Calling on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to Rescind Offensive “Jane Fonda Day”

 

by: Assemblyman Tri Ta
Published: May 6, 2024

 

ORANGE COUNTY...Today, Assemblyman Ta announced that a bipartisan coalition of eighteen California legislators signed his letter calling on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to rescind their decision to designate April 30 as “Jane Fonda Day.” This poorly timed and offensive resolution to honor Jane Fonda, a notorious propaganda mouthpiece for the totalitarian North Vietnamese regime, renames the very day on which the fall of Saigon is solemnly recognized.  The selection of April 30 is incredibly insensitive on a painful day of remembrance for veterans of the Vietnam War and the Vietnamese-American refugee community.

“After hundreds of constituents signed my office’s petition to express their concern with the actions of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, I immediately began organizing this bipartisan legislative coalition to voice the pain caused by the Board’s decision,” said Assemblyman Ta. “As an elected representative for the largest population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam, I know the painful legacy that Black April and the Fall of Saigon left on our community. I want to thank my colleagues for their support of this effort, and I hope the Board of Supervisors will listen to our simple request to respect this sacred day.”

The full letter to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors can be read here and the petition can be found here.