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James Mai

James Mai

Oct 19, 2026

23:05
Can you tell us your story, your background, and how did you get involved with public service? Sure.
23:08
I'll start from the very beginning.
23:11
My family is war refugees from Vietnam, a country of Vietnam.
23:16
It's a long story, but I'll start a little back.
23:20
Bit of the backstory in Vietnam is that my family was from Northern Vietnam in the early days.
23:25
They were trading fishermen and my grandfather was a diplomat.
23:30
So he had his business.

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30:58
it like to do the public service you're doing right now? Is it different than when you got in?
57:06
Why are you opposed?
57:09
Yeah, thank you.
57:09
I'm excited to be here on AirTalk.
57:11
And one of the main reasons that I'm opposed to this is basically it comes down to logistics.
57:19
It comes down to a fiscal issue.
57:22
We have no idea how much this is going to cost.
57:25
We've researched it.
59:04
So if other smaller communities could afford to do this, why couldn't a comparatively large city like Irvine be able to budget for this?

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