My-Linh Thai
Bellevue School Board President My-Linh Thai is running for State Representative in the 41st legislative district.
Incumbent Rep. Judy Clibborn is retiring.
Thai moved to Washington state at the age 15 as a refugee from Vietnam. A graduate from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, Thai and her husband built a successful pediatric neurology practice from the ground up in Casper, Wyo., and she later worked as a practicing pharmacist in Billings, Mont.
Thai, who first got involved in her local PTA, won an “Outstanding Advocate” award for her efforts, and propelled her to serve as a Bellevue School Board Director and now Board President.
Would you trust Ms Thai, who has no standard and no common sense?
Would you vote for a racist and divisive candidate?
Should we vote for a candidate who was trying to pushing her extreme progressive ideas through to be her political stepping stone?
Should we vote for her who exclaimed she was fighting for the educational opportunities for all students by accepting students who were suspended, or with histories of gang membership or violent behaviors from outside of BSD?
FIY, listen to BSD’s recorded board meeting on Mar 6 on YouTube, Thai asked to remove the exclusion clauses and proposed to drop the exclusion clauses for all non-BSD applicants….
Do your own research, vote for a decent candidate who’ll truly represent us the people!
I have a hard time commenting on Mrs. Thai’s campaign, because she’s such a flawed candidate that I don’t even know what’s the biggest flaw of her candidacy. Let me try my best to phrase:
1. No achievement whatsoever in 5+ years. Mrs. Thai relocated to Bellevue in 2008, and it took Mrs. Thai about 5 years getting elected into BSD board in the 2013 election. Amazing achievement! However, it’s been 5+ years since she joined the board, yet her biggest achievement on the resume is still the PTA award that had nothing to do with her leadership position in the Bellevue school district. What EXACTLY has Mrs. Thai achieved in BSD to warrant a promotion to the State Legislature?! It appears the answer is none. In private business, if a person has achieved nothing in 5 years as a leader, typically this person would be let go instead of getting promoted.
2. No real proposal on ANY issues. I’m a very open-minded independent voter, and I respect all candidates who sincerely try to serve the public, even if I completely disagree with their ideas. Mrs. Thai is so UNACCEPTABLE from this perspective. Please check her campaign site for issues at https://www.my-linhthai.com/priorities/, and compare that to her opponents Wendy Weiker: https://electwendyweiker.com/issues/ and Michael Appleby https://voteappleby.com/issues/. She’s nowhere near as specific as those 2 candidates. The only thing that’s remotely close to being specific is “reform our regressive tax code”. What exactly does that mean? A State Representative has no control over the federal tax code even if the federal tax code indeed is “regressive”, and Washington State doesn’t have personal income tax to be “regressive”. Is this about introducing personal income tax and capital gains tax? That’s totally OK. Just list it like Senator Patty Kuderer does on her campaign site. There is nothing to be ashamed of if that’s Mrs. Thai’s proposal, but it’s a shame that Mrs. Thai can’t be as frank as Sen. Kuderer. VOTERS DESERVE TO KNOW YOUR POSITION AND DECIDE.
3. All I list above points to a bigger problem for Mrs. Thai: I don’t even know Mrs. Thai is a progressive, a moderate, or something else. She doesn’t explain any positions, and all she did was to advance her own political career. Without any achievement in 4 years at BSD board, she became the BSD president in 2017 and immediately declared her candidacy for LD. 41 in Spring, 2018. It’s not a good practice to abandon your team within half a year when you are tasked to be the leader of the whole school district. Everybody can see her sole purpose of becoming BSD president is to step up for House Rep, and most likely her main motivation of serving in PTA in the first place was to getting elected to BSD board.
Everything about Mrs. Thai smells so wrong. How is anyone supposed to vote for a candidate with neither achievement nor clear positions? Please research the other 2 candidates and make your choice no matter where you position on the political spectrum. We’ve seen enough opportunistic politicians in Olympia, and we deserve a sincere candidate to represent us more than a fraud like Mrs. Thai.
My-Linh Thai is hiding her true political agenda from voters. Thai, and the unions that backing Thai want to bring back racial quota and racial preferential treatment that have been banned by voter approved initiative 200. The BSD board position is simply a stepping stone for Thai to move up the political ladder. During Thai’s tenure at BSD board, student graduation rates took a nose dive and now Thai want to move on to Olympia to do more damages. Voters should reject My-Linh Thai!
Don’t expect My-Linh Thai to listen to voters. When facing oppositions from parents on policies she was pushing, Thai used many dirty tactics to silent parents’ voices and different opinions. Thai is a dangerous career politician that only cares about her political career. Reject My-Linh Thai !