ATLANTA -- A Morrow, Georgia, city councilwoman said a Vietnamese-American colleague “failed as a citizen of this country” and “dishonored” her office because she backed a petition for multilingual ballots ahead of the metro Atlanta city’s upcoming election.
The comments last week from Councilwoman Dorothy Dean took aim at Councilwoman Van Tran after she sought to provide ballots in Spanish and Vietnamese for upcoming city-level votes.
“I would like you to know that I feel as a citizen of this city and as a fellow councilmember that you do not deserve to sit on that dais as an elected official,” Dean said at the council meeting, saying the petition “offended me highly.”
