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    As the City Council bickers, Westminster careens toward bankruptcy

    LOS ANGELES — On March 9, the Westminster City Council met until midnight, sparring bitterly about whether local Vietnamese-language YouTube broadcasts were spreading "fake news." By then, it was too late in the evening to address another item on the agenda: saving the city from bankruptcy. At another meeting five days later, the council came no closer to moving forward with the renewal of a ...
    by Anh Do, Los Angeles Times Apr 26, 2022 5 minutes
    Terry Rains holds up signs during a rare in-person City Council meeting during the pandemic on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in Westminster, California. The city of Westminster is facing bankruptcy. Instead of approving an extension of a sales tax measure that has helped to offset a $16 million budget deficit for the city, the council continues to argue over...

    LOS ANGELES — On March 9, the Westminster City Council met until midnight, sparring bitterly about whether local Vietnamese-language YouTube broadcasts were spreading "fake news."

    By then, it was too late in the evening to address another item on the agenda: saving the city from bankruptcy.

    At another meeting five days later, the council came no closer to moving forward with the renewal of a 1% sales tax or finding some other way to keep the city afloat.

    In Westminster, a city of more than 90,000 that is home to Little Saigon, the election of a majority-Vietnamese council in 2008 was a milestone. The bickering started soon thereafter and hasn't stopped since.

    If anything, it has gotten worse, with shifting factions and recall attempts. Mayor Tri Ta and Councilwoman Kimberly Ho are running against each other

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