Oct 9, 2014
The race for Mountain View City Council has a crowded field with 9 candidates vying for 3 seats. So doing something to make yourself stand out from the crowd is a plus. In this case, it’s family law attorney Mercedes Salem who’s far out raised her competitors with $32,829 in campaign funds. Tweet
Oct 9, 2014
Anthony Phan could be the youngest candidate on the ballot this campaign season. (He’ll turn 21 after the election) And he’s using his youth to his advantage. Adopting a unique approach to his campaign, Phan is enlisting the help of high school students, some of whom aren’t even old enough yet to cast a ballot, to give voters their perspective…
Oct 8, 2014
Informed sources are telling The Left Hook that San Jose D3 city council candidate Don Gagliardi was sent this letter calling Don out for his hostile, disrespectful and inappropriate behavior toward city staff. The letter was signed by Executive Director Harry Mavrogenes who was in charge of San Jose’s Redevelopment Agency at the time. Tweet
Oct 7, 2014
Today at City Council: Mayoral Candidate Sam Liccardo doesn’t trust residents to make the right choices to protect themselves. Okay, not a quote, but that’s the bottom line after he rejected a perfectly sensible plan to spend excess city funds on public safety measures for neighborhoods. The San Jose City Council voted 7 to 4 (Rocha, Campos, Chu, Kalra dissenting)…
Oct 7, 2014
The tallies are in for fundraising and the San Jose City Council candidates supported by working families are leading the efforts. In District 1, the seat currently filled by termed out councilmember Pete Constant, Paul Fong outraised Chappie Jones by more than $12,000 for the reporting period that ended yesterday. In District 3, where current councilmember Sam Liccardo is running…
Oct 7, 2014
Nearly every metropolitan area these days has its own wealthy promoters of education reform. Little Rock has the Waltons, Seattle has Bill and Melinda Gates, Newark has Mark Zuckerberg, and Buffalo has John Oishei, who made his millions selling windshield wipers. Few areas, however, have as concentrated and active a group of wealthy reformers as California’s Silicon Valley. One of…
Oct 6, 2014
San Jose firefighters and their brethren from throughout the bay area fanned out through the city talking to voters with the help of an unusual fire truck cruising down the street with a big sign on it supporting Dave Cortese for San Jose Mayor. The truck was in fact NOT a San Jose fire truck, but a privately owned fire…
Oct 6, 2014
Another blow to Mayor Chuck Reed and City Councilman-Mayor-Wanna-Be Sam Liccardo, with the ruling that the city must pay for the plaintiffs’ attorneys fees in the Measure B lawsuit. City worker unions successfully fought the illegal pension reform measure, spending money and time just to prove what Mayor Reed and his allies knew all along : that their idea to…
Oct 3, 2014
From The Daily Fetch: Some source SJ Inside’s Josh Koehn relied upon to smear Congressman Mike Honda. Any ethical cub reporter would have checked the source out and figured out he had a major axe to grind after being hit with a Temporary Restraining Order for threatening to kill Honda’s Chief of Staff and her daughter. Seriously Josh, you rely…
Oct 3, 2014
Ro Khanna’s recent attack on Congressman Mike Honda takes a page out of the sleazy playbook he used when he ran against Congressman Tom Lantos ten years ago. In 2004 he accused Congressman Lantos of using his legislative staff on the campaign, just like he did to Honda last week. The accusation went nowhere because it was false. False claims…