GOP = Old White Males? Vietnamese-American Scores State Senate Seat in Massachusetts

Of course, this kind of information will never get national press. I have read on the Google News feeds about Democratic candidates winning unlikely state legislative victories in some southern states like Oklahoma and Georgia.

The media dragged its tongue, pen, paper, voice, just about everything over the epic wins in Virginia, too.

But when Republicans win considerable upsets in deep blue states like Connecticut or Massachusetts, no one says a thing, aside from the local press and the state party.

Here's one more post to make up for this epic silence.

The Massachusetts Republican Party snagged another epic win, taking a state senate seat in a special election, a seat which Democrats had held for decades.

Check out the report with comments below:

Republicans Snag Mass. Senate Seat As Voters Elect Fitchburg CityCouncilor Tran

Fitchburg City Councilor Dean Tran on Tuesday won the north central Massachusetts Senate seat vacated earlier this year by Jennifer Flanagan, helping Republicans to a rare feat by flipping a Senate seat that had been held by Democrats.

Republicans are still woefully underrepresented on Beacon Hill, and it will take time for Republicans to Make Massachusetts Great Again.

For the record, liberal Republican governor Charlie Baker is not exactly a fan or an ally of the Trump Administration, specifically refusing to endorse his bid for President and staying away from connecting with him in any open or overt fashion.

With Tran coming to Beacon Hill, where Senate Democrats are in the midst of their own leadership upheaval, Republicans will hold seven of the 40 seats in the chamber and the party gains some momentum heading into 2018 which features legislative and statewide elections, including a U.S. Senate contest.

7 seats? That's a little bit better than what they had after the 2012 election. But 7 seats is a drop in the bucket compared to the legislative supermajority might of the current Democratic majority. The speaker of the state senate is gone ... for now, but if the allegations against his homosexual partner turn out to be substantiated, then it's possible that Republicans could pick up more seats in the next election cycle.

After a campaign in which he called for keeping taxes low, creating jobs and supporting education, Tran on Tuesday night declared victory over Leominster City Councilor Sue Chalifoux Zephir, who had won a three-person special election primary in September and racked up interest group endorsements.

What a victory! It's good that local reporters acknowledge that the Democratic candidate is the puppet of special interests, since that has largely been the case for decades in the Bay State.

The Sentinel & Enterprise of Fitchburg reported that Tran defeated Chalifoux Zephir by about 600 votes in a race where more than 15,600 votes were cast and more than 1,500 votes went to an unenrolled candidate, Leominster Councilor Claire Freda.

Nationally, Tran is the fourth Republican this year to seize a state legislative seat held by a Democrat, according to the Republican State Leadership Committee, a national caucus of Republican state leaders that said Tran will become the first Vietnamese-American elected to the Massachusetts Legislature.

Wow! Notice that Republicans are stomping and romping Democrats at the state level, too. Didn't read about this in the national media? No surprises here.

"Dean Tran’s victory tonight again shows that Republican candidates can be successful in traditionally blue states when they run on common-sense, fiscally-sound legislative solutions," RSLC President Matt Walter said in a statement. "With popular Governors like Charlie Baker, Republicans can continue to win tough races and flip legislative seats in states throughout the country."

It is true that Baker is very popular in Massachusetts, one of the most popular governors in the country!

The Worcester and Middlesex Senate District covers Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Berlin, Bolton, Lancaster, Lunenburg, Sterling, Townsend, Westminster and two precincts in Clinton. The seat opened up when Flanagan accepted Gov. Charlie Baker's offer to serve on the new Cannabis Control Commission.

Here's a little history about Dean Tran:

Tran was a young child when his family left their possessions behind in Saigon, Vietnam, and fled communism, according to his campaign website. His family lived for two years in a refugee camp in Thailand before a Catholic priest in Clinton sponsored their entry to America. They eventually settled in Fitchburg.

During the campaign, Democrats criticized Tran for saying the transgender protection law signed by Baker did not do enough to protect children from sexual predators and for saying he would prefer to see public dollars go to local women's health clinics over Planned Parenthood. Tran also knocked Senate Democrats for passing legislation loosening mandatory minimum sentences associated with drug crimes.

WOW! Tran is conservative, and he is not afraid to criticize Governor Baker! This is great!

Baker stuck with Tran, amid calls from Democrats for him to withdraw his support, saying he disagreed with the candidate on some issues but valued his local government experience and felt that he was "the right guy for that job."

Final Reflection

Conservatives should not run away from family values, but embrace them, while focusing on the essential local issues confronting their constituents. The problem with too many Republican parties in blue states is that they immediate cave on cultural issues, acting as though potential controversies will mar their election chances. Yet by digging to the left on key concerns, they all but sacrifice their bid because they stick their voter base in the eye.

Dean Tran's victory should be a reminder to fight the good fight for everything that is right, and to stand up to even liberal-leaning or RINO leaders in one's state Republican Party.