Sep 27, 2019
Tuesday night San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and a bare City Council majority voted to give nine developers a $67 million subsidy for the sole purpose of increasing the developers’ profits. An independent study commissioned by the City showed that downtown high rises are profitable, but not at the level of return desired by the nine developers. In accordance with…
Sep 17, 2019
Republican Jonathan Fleming, who ran unsuccessfully for City Council District 7 in 2018, is trying a unique campaign tactic in San Jose. In his current campaign for City Council District 2 he is running to the right, the far right. Fleming pictured above with Vice President Mike Pence at a visit to Moffett Field earlier this year, tweeted he was…
Sep 11, 2019
Lan Diep, the last remaining Republican on the San Jose City Council, quietly left the Republican Party several months ago and re-registered as Decline to State. Records at the Santa Clara County Registrar of voters indicate that he made the change on March 11 of this year. Diep is running for reelection in a hotly contested race against two Democrats,…