Author Archives : The Left Hook

On March 4th, 2014, Billionaire Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings delivered the keynote speech to the California Charter School Association’s annual conference.  In that keynote speech, Mr. Hastings made a shocking statement:  Democratically elected school board members are the problem with education, and they must be replaced by privately held corporations in the next 20-30 years. Tweet

As city employee unions quietly work with city leaders to fix Mayor Reed’s illegal pension measure, which is driving away police, some city council members are playing political games with public safety. Tuesday, Council Member Pierluigi Oliverio will bring this recommendation (item 3.6 on the agenda) to the Council, to set aside 40% of the City General Fund for police…

Despite aggressive campaigning by his billionaire financed Democratic and Republican opponents, Congressman Mike Honda continues to hold double-digit leads in both primary and general election polling for his CA-17 race and 61% of CA-17 voters polled approve of the way Rep. Honda is handling his job as their Congressman. (results below)  The recent polling conducted by Public Policy Polling on behalf of…

It’s not surprising to see Dave Cortese leading in a new poll surveying those San Jose residents most likely to vote in June in the San Jose Mayor’s race.  The results show that San Jose voters are no dummies. In the upcoming primary election, it will take only about 23% of the vote to advance to the general election, and…

UPDATE: Dear Readers, It looks like Sam Liccardo’s campaign took down the questionable campaign event information from their website which th is post refers to.  Look!   Is that the behavior of someone who’s doing things on the straight and narrow? For those of you who have been wondering how mayoral candidate Sam Liccardo raised $512,000 in December, while Dave…

Santa Clara County leaders have had enough excuses from the City of San Jose on why emergency medical response times seem to be “dragging”, to put it mildly. The Fire Department has missed it’s contracted “on-time” response for almost the last year and a half (14 consecutive months). What does the county have to do to get some accountability around…