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 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…
Oct 1, 2014
There are a number of critical races going on this campaign season, and just in case you’ve missed some of the more interesting details, we’re here to bring you up to speed. Let’s start with…. Santa Clara Valley Water District Did you know that Gary Kremen, founder of Match.com is running for Santa Clara County Water Board? His campaign website…
Sep 30, 2014
Marijuana collective owners have a chance to overturn the San Jose City Council’s new restrictions on pot sales, now that they’ve overwhelmingly qualified to put a referendum on the 2016 ballot. Mayoral hopeful Sam Liccardo helped lead the charge to adopt regulations that many are saying will actually increase crime. Tweet
Sep 29, 2014
San Jose City Positions on November Ballot Measures Among the recommendations city staff is making for the council is to keep CA prisons as overcrowded as possible. Proposition 47 – Criminal Sentences. Misdemeanor OPPOSE Tweet
Sep 25, 2014
From The Daily Fetch A mere weeks before making the motion and casting a vote directing the San Jose Redevelopment Agency to pay substantially above the appraised amount for land, Sam Liccardo took campaign cash directly from the property owner and his family for his city council re-election campaign in 2009 and 2010. The property purchase was acquired to build a road to…