I went ahead and just did it the only way I know of, probably not the best way, but it worked. If anyone has a better way of accomplishing this let me know.
First things first I would highly recommend you to stop using the ViewData dictionary property to pass data from your controllers to views. Any time you can use ViewData you could also use a ViewModel. With the ViewModel you have the compiler helping you rather than just passing keys into the dictionary.
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