Oct 29, 2014
Council member Don Rocha is venting some long-harbored frustration with Mayor Chuck Reed, as he shows in this letter to the U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of CA, Melinda Haag. Reed contacted Haag requesting she investigate allegations that the San Jose Police Officers Union President was encouraging new recruits to quit the department to shore up the union’s complaints…
Oct 27, 2014
San Jose: Considering zoning changes to allow people to take perfectly good long term rental property and zone it for short term rental similar to AirBnB. This could take affordable rental properties away from working families who can’t afford a $3000 studio downtown. Earthquakes Stadium signage: Modifications to the Sign Code would allow additional/larger signs, including programmable electronic displays and…
Oct 27, 2014
Does anyone really believe that if police officers continue to leave the City of San Jose that crime will decrease? That logic is just kooky, but Mayor Chuck Reed and now San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel are manipulating statistics to get us to believe that. Tweet
Oct 24, 2014
The plot thickens in the ethics scandal involving Mayor Reed’s political strategist Victor Ajlouny, with a tacit admission from Ajlouny that he did in fact encourage former Officer Aaron Ettinger to lie about whether the head of the police union was telling cadets to quit the department. Tweet
Oct 23, 2014
What did Mayor Reed know and when did he know it? Those are the questions now arising from an ethics scandal set off by the Mayor’s longtime political strategist, Victory Ajlouny. Former San Jose Police Officer Aaron Ettinger is speaking out about being approached by Ajlouny and asked to falsely claim he was encouraged to quit the San Jose Police…
Just two more weeks until the election for San Jose Mayor and polls surveying who voters are supporting are popping up like gofers on a golf course. Which ones do you trust? The latest poll results released by the Sam Liccardo campaign show he’s leading County Supervisor Dave Cortese by a few points. But consider the source: Public Policy Polling,…
“In no uncertain terms, he (Jim Unland) blamed Measure B for the departure of hundreds of officers — and he told us that it would be better for the department and for us if we would just quit, right then and there.” That was the assertion made by a young police recruit who failed to pass the rigors of training…
Support Prop 47 Council hero Ash Kalra wants to try and change the misguided minds of his dais foes on Proposition 47, the state measure that would reduce the classification of most “non-serious and nonviolent property and drug crimes” from a felony to a misdemeanor. Tweet