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City Politics

Voting Rights Lawsuit Appeal Filed Prior to Council Approval

Author Carolyn SchukPosted on October 25, 2018
Some in Santa Clara are saying that the attorneys representing the City in the now-appealed voting rights lawsuit overstepped their authority by filing an appeal a week before the...
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City Legal Bills, or More Commonly Known as a Taxpayers’ Money Pit

Author The Editorial BoardPosted on October 25, 2018October 24, 2018
Recently, the Santa Clara Weekly reported that the City of Santa Clara’s legal bills for the failed California Voting Rights Act (CVRA)...
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Santa Clara District Elections Sequencing for California Voting Rights Act Remedy: Districts 2 & 3 in 2018

Author Carolyn SchukPosted on July 24, 2018
Today, the judge in Santa Clara’s California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) lawsuit, Thomas Kuhnle, published an amendment to his July 23 order...
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Last Tuesday night, it was incredibly ironic and hypocritical to listen to our city manager talk about budget cuts. Have voters and our city council forgot that Deanna Santana has the highest base salary and the second highest total compensation package for a city manager/city administrator in California – a whopping 709,446. Instead of cutting our essential fire and police services for our residents, how about starting with cutting her own salary. Furthermore, as the Weekly previously reported five of Santa Clara’s 10 most-highly paid (base salary) City employees — after Santana — are her former colleagues! Let’s start with budget cuts with these overpaid city employees, not services residents depend on. This council seems to have it backwards, awarding high salaries to our administrators that are supposed to be working for us while eliminating budget everywhere else. Residents should ask themselves these questions – why is our city manager paid an

Michael W.

As incredible as it may be, there is a campaign underway to recall Governor Newsom in the midst of the pandemic in which California has vied  with Texas for the most reported Covid-19 cases in the country.   While the governor may have made some missteps along the way in dealing with the crisis, he faces enormous challenges in the most populous ethnically and culturally diverse state in the US..  Campaign backers  claim they will have enough verified signatures by the March 17 deadline to force a special election with a multi-million dollar taxpayer funded price tag that could be held in early 2022. Nationally recognized  Politico senior writer for California Playbook Carla Marinucci, a former Santa Claran, who has reported extensively on the recall, will address the issue at a Zoom meeting sponsored by the South Bay Democratic Coalition on February 25th at 7 PM.   To participate, visit https://southbaydemocraticcoalition.org

Shirley Odou

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