The San Jose Vietnamese community is a lot like the Hulk: don’t make them angry—you wouldn’t like them when they’re angry. Nobody knows this better than Madison Nguyen, who failed to take Bruce Banner’s famous advice and has now come around to realizing that their recall campaign against her (currently punctuated by the signs lining McLaughlin at the Grand Century Mall) can’t be taken lightly. Although the Viet community has been talking for months about recalling Nguyen over the Little Saigon naming debate, Nguyen has downplayed their chances in the past. Recently however, she kicked off her No Recall campaign, using social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook and YouTube to ask for $500 or even $1,000 donations to stop the recall. She launched it all quietly at first, with no publicity, but now Nguyen claims she’s running this campaign even more aggressively than her successful bid to be San Jose’s first Vietnamese-American on the council. Nguyen still says it’s not really that she’s afraid of losing this time around, but that she wants to “nip this in the bud.” That would mean getting enough support to keep the recall supporters from gathering the more than 3,200 signatures they need to actually get the measure on the November ballot. “I will be extremely surprised or impressed if they are able to collect 3,200 signatures,” Nguyen said. “But that doesn’t mean we aren’t taking it seriously. I’m taking it more seriously than I did my 2005 campaign.” Nguyen held a kick off party this month, inviting only 60 of her closest supporters, but she was pleasantly surprised when 200 people showed up, writing checks for the District 7 councilwoman’s campaign. Nguyen wouldn’t say how much money she has collected to date. But let’s put it this way, Nguyen says she’s not too worried about getting the financial backing she will need to keep her seat on the council. When asked how much money was pouring in, Nguyen wouldn’t give an exact figure, but said “You will be amazed. Everyone will be shocked.”