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I recommend Anne Kepner for Assembly Seat District 25. She is the best candidate for the Seat. Anne started her leadership skills in high school being Student Body Treasurer. Since then, she has been President of almost every group or organization she joined: President West Valley District School Board, Board Chair for Mission City Community Fund, PTA President of Buchser Middle School, and currently serving on the Board of Managers for Central YMCA of Silicon Valley. Anne is smart, communicates well, and is easy to talk to, honest, has integrity and knowledgeable about her goals serving as an Assembly member. Anne is interested in Education, Stronger Neighborhoods, Healthcare, Gun Safety, a Robust Transportation System, a Healthy Environment, and Women's Rights. There is no one more qualified than Anne Kepner for California State Assembly Seat District 25. Bob Buchser, Retired Educator, Santa Clara Unified School District

Bob Buchser

An at-large Sunnyvale mayor would represent me as little as the council members who voted to have Measure B. They ignored majority public input against changing from council-selected mayor to directly-elected mayor, and pleas to let voters freely choose between 7 districts and at-large mayor riding on 6 districts. The motivations for a directly-elected mayor are the same as ever – concentration of power and special interest influence; self-interest and personal ambitions. What is different this time is that at-large mayor is marketed with district elections. It is also timely to make use of a potential lawsuit – is this fair? Under the guise that “responsibilities will remain the same”, at-large mayor’s power is increased, by extended term limits, and removable only by recall/election. A mayoral race would set new campaign spending records. Whom will the winner represent? (I am in the No on Measure B campaign, speaking for myself

MeiLing ShekStefan

The City of Sunnyvale’s plan to move to district elections through Measure B sounds like a wonderful idea until you read the fine print. Along with an admirable move to districts there is a poison pill in the form of a directly elected mayor which will do more harm than good. But before we move to the substance of the new 6+1 election scheme let’s look at how we got here. Faced with a potential lawsuit the City wisely voted to move forward with district elections instead of the current at-large format which violates the California Voting Rights Act. (Notice letter) But instead of moving to seven districts with no at-large voting the Sunnyvale City Council majority chose to enact a plan to have a directly elected mayor. The question is why? Those who know Sunnyvale’s recent history know that two directly elected mayor ballot measures already failed, most recently

Josh Grossman

I resent the use of taxpayer money to pay for the campaign to support Sunnyvale’s Measure B; I think it is unethical and a violation of voters’ trust. Here is what can be done to partially rectify what Sunnyvale city has done: Pay back into taxpayer funds the total expense of producing and mailing campaign brochures. This can be done by getting the Yes on Measure B organization to reimburse the city. Failing that, require the individuals responsible for it reimburse taxpayers’ funds from their own pockets. Quickly produce a good quality, simple brochure and mail to all voters/residents that states the original brochure was a mistake, is unethical, and should be ignored, i.e. voters are encouraged to decide if Measure B is good or bad public policy. Further note in the brochure that directly-elected mayor and the loss of one council seat are NOT mandated by California law.

Robert Hoop

I urge my fellow Santa Clarans to vote NO ON MEASURE C. Measure C is bad for Santa Clara by taking our current court ordered 6 districts and reducing it to 3. How is that fair and democratic? Our council majority supports this, our city attorney supports it. This raises red flags as this is more about maintaining power and status quo than protecting voters’ rights. In 2018, Santa Clara County Judge found our city in violation of the CVRA law. Our city was ordered to become 6 single member districts. Yet there is great pushback to the judge’s orders. The excuse used by the city attorney and council majority including the Mayor is they cannot change the charter without the people. It’s funny they say this because they did the same to changes to the role and responsibilities of the city clerk. They did the same to remove the

Anthony Becker

We all like to think that institutional racism ended with 1954 Brown v Board, and with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But it is entirely different within the Real Estate Industry. There, race is still seen in a pecking order and as a key determinant of pricing. Lisa Gillmor has made the interests of Real Estate Speculators the public interest. And so of course this is all done covertly. Everything about how Santa Clara runs is covert. She set this up before she got back on the Council. And that is when she started building her 4 member block. So three times, Sham Charter Review Committees, clowns giving speeches, disputing the very premise of a racial voter disenfranchisement, completely disregarding CA law and the Court's authority. She feeds our residents nonsense. She wants to be ringing the secession bell. She has built up a reactionary contingent which is committed to racially based disenfranchisement. Vote no on Measure C, let us keep

Zarathustra

Upon receiving your report about the contract of 49ers with Santa Clara stadium, my first intuition is that city of Santa Clara learned something from the competition, but that seems to be minor in comparison with the more crucial matter like sanctuary city which would enlighten me the words from white house that " that would undermine the law" since it's conflicting with the federal law causing illegal matter as the forward message accompanied has demonstrated, and I will be more delighted to hear if something can be done to reverse that policy more or less hopefully. Sincerely yours Kuong-Lin Ou Young

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