Author: Carolyn Schuk
City Politics
Santa Clara’s Real Challenge Isn’t Drawing Districts — It’s Discrimination
August 2, 2018
Since Superior Court Judge Thomas Kuhnle found Santa Clara had violated the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA), the public conversation...
City Politics
Related Lobbyist Jude Barry’s Business is Politics — And He’s Selling in Santa Clara
August 1, 2018
For Related Companies’ lobbyist Jude Barry politics is business — from selling campaign consulting and lobbying to selling software. But...
City Politics
Six Districts, Two to Elect New Council Members in November
July 25, 2018
Yesterday an amended order was published in Santa Clara’s California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) lawsuit directing the sequencing of elections...
City Politics
Santa Clara District Elections Sequencing for California Voting Rights Act Remedy: Districts 2 & 3 in 2018
July 24, 2018
Today, the judge in Santa Clara’s California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) lawsuit, Thomas Kuhnle, published an amendment to his July...
City Politics
Judge in Voting Rights Lawsuit Orders Six Districts for Santa Clara, But Election Sequencing Not Decided
July 23, 2018
Santa Clara will have six election districts and will use the City’s Draft Plan 3, dawn by the City’s demographer...
City Politics
Day Two of the California Voting Rights Lawsuit Remedy Hearing
July 20, 2018
Yesterday’s hearing in Santa Clara’s voting rights lawsuit began where it left off on Wednesday: with demographer David Ely testifying....
City Politics
Judge in Voting Rights Case Considers Proposed Order for 7 Districts
July 19, 2018
On Wednesday Santa Clara’s voting rights lawsuit entered its second phase: determining the remedy for the City’s voting rights violation....
City Politics
Fire, Ready, Aim: Council Launches New Ballot Measures, Considers End Runs Against Court Orders
July 18, 2018
At a special Monday night meeting — within days of a judge’s remedy order for Santa Clara’s voting rights violation...
City Politics
City’s Lawyer in Voting Rights Lawsuit Has Business and Political Ties to Controversial Lobbyist
July 13, 2018
It’s an old cliché that it isn’t what you know but who you know, that counts. Churchwell White LLP, the...
City Politics
Census Data Shows Santa Clara’s Ethnic Geography — It’s Not Homogenous
July 4, 2018
Examination of the Santa Clara’s 2010 census tract data shows that the City has clearly identifiable minority majority or near-majority...








