Nov 10, 2014
A statement from SJ Mayoral candidate Dave Cortese – First, thank you for the role you played in helping us mount a campaign where thousands came together, calling for a new culture at City Hall. Thanks to our efforts, I’m confident that you will see a more conciliatory approach by the City’s new leadership than we would have seen had our…
Nov 10, 2014
San Jose Police Department Operations and Performance On September 17, 2014, in response to Councilmember Rocha’s memo, the Rules Committee directed staff to prepare a written report on Police Department operations and performance. Tuesday, the council will discuss: current staffing levels, as well as historical staffing levels, in the past five years, any projections as to future staffing the department…
Nov 7, 2014
Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey is asking the California Secretary of State for a post-election review of the Registrar’s “systems and processes”, according to this letter sent today. Tweet
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Nov 5, 2014
San Jose is a city divided. And there is perhaps no better illustration of that than the Santa Clara County Registrar’s map which shows where mayoral candidates Dave Cortese and Sam Liccardo drew support. The East Side, made up of working class families and people of color, went largely to Cortese. The West Side, which is whiter and wealthier, voted…
Nov 3, 2014
The Liccardo for Mayor Campaign is demanding Comcast Cable stop running an ad reminding voters of Council Member Sam Liccardo’s voting record on crime issues. The letter accuses the ad of making false and misleading statements in an attempt to mislead voters. The Left Hook researchers checked into this and found the documents that back up the ad’s statements. Tweet
Nov 1, 2014
The Liccardo for Mayor Campaign is scrambling to get its story straight about a variety of ethics violations filed against them. Campaign manager Ragan Henninger dismissed an ethics complaint filed last week as “baseless,” claiming that the donation of a contact list, made by Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen, is not an in-kind contribution, and therefore didn’t have to be…
Oct 30, 2014
The Liccardo for Mayor Campaign broke multiple San Jose laws, according to a complaint filed yesterday with the City’s Ethics Commission and obtained by The Left Hook. The violations include a failure to file a report for an in-kind contribution of a voter list from Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen. The Liccardo Campaign sent this letter to the contacts on that list.…
Interest in the race for Milpitas City Council just shot up a few notches after a council member received a death threat. Council candidate Rajeev Madnawat, an intellectual property attorney affiliated with the prominent San Jose firm of Hoge Fenton, sent this email to soon-to-be termed out council member Armando Gomez. In the email, Madnawat berates Gomez for supporting candidates Marsha Grilli and Deepka Lalwani, saying: ” I can assure you…