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City Politics

November 2018 Election Results: Santa Clara Mayor, City Clerk, Council Members Decided

Author Alissa SorotenPosted on November 7, 2018November 12, 2018
Thousands of Santa Clara voters cast their vote in the November 2018 elections. As of Wednesday, Nov. 7, 100 percent of all the precincts are reporting and the City...
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Santa Clara Election 2018 Follow the Money Update: PACs and Related Execs Jump In

Author Carolyn SchukPosted on November 1, 2018November 2, 2018
Campaign donations have accelerated since the September campaign finance reports, with plenty of treats from real estate and union interests for mayoral...
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Following the Santa Clara 2018 Campaign Money

Author Carolyn SchukPosted on October 10, 2018October 17, 2018
With the first campaign financial reports in, Mayor candidate Lisa Gillmor leads with a campaign treasury of $16,955. Second is City Council...
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Candidates Set Their Eyes Towards the November Election

Author Alissa SorotenPosted on August 10, 2018
We’re down to the wire. The deadline for candidates for the November election is today at 5 p.m. — However, if District...
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Candidates File to Run in Santa Clara’s First By-District Elections

Author Carolyn SchukPosted on August 6, 2018
It’s getting down to the wire for candidates to file run in November’s election. The deadline is Friday, Aug. 10, with the...
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Citizens Advisory Committee Reframes Narrative Around Election Lawsuit

Author David AlexanderPosted on August 2, 2018
Corruption in Santa Clara politics — not a racial divide — is the main problem with elections in the City, a member...

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Seems the City  Council is giving away money!!  Of course $578,346 is being given to an outside "organization"  a Philadelphia company,  to once again, for the EIGHTH time to revitalize our lost downtown.  They have this contract for three years and our city manager can extend it for another three should they ask.  I have no doubt they will as it is free money!! Why is this losing project continuing??  If it has failed seven times, why try once again??  The loss that was won years ago cannot be replaced now.  Those citizens who lived here at the time the downtown disappeared are likely no longer here, so who is asking for its return??  The group that is at the heart of it declares this to be a "Once in a lifetime opportunity"!! I agree with that statement, but there have been seven previous efforts, what about all those "opportunities"??  I

Pat Alves

The Teresa ONeill Fake News Service, otherwise known as the Balloon Gut Blog, is at it again. Route 65 is out, because, as Teresa’s Boy writes, it was not supported. VTA could not promote it well. Ladies and Gentlemen, I know that VTA’s Public Affairs has been a cesspool of incompetence for three decades. Failed legislative aides either work for VTA or the Water District, not Walmart where they belong. Arias, Broughton, and a dozen others worked there. Route 65 serviced the working poor, a group Teresa O’Neill avoids whenever possible unless she has plenty of Purel. Magdalena Carrasco, a person I have opposed for years, does have the desire to help the working poor, she gets it, O’Neill continues to rely on Jude, Bobby, why? Well that is her kitchen cabinet.

James Rowen

I was misquoted in the October 1st article by Carolyn Schuk about the Charter Review Committee meetings. She wrote that I said that the three district option was not part of the narrow "assignment" given to the committee. It was. What I had complained about was that the Clerk initially implied that any discussion of rank choice voting or how district lines should be drawn after the 2020 census was essentially off the table. I disagreed with the Clerk's assessment. Fortunately, the City Attorney later suggested that the Committee might want to give some guidance to City Council as to how district lines should be adjusted after the census and who should be involved in drawing those lines.   Thanks, Suds Jain

Suds Jain

Sorry for my late response to Mr. Barber's "Kill the Messenger" editorial column. I am seriously concerned about Attorney Doyle's request to get the names, payment, and contact information of the subscribers and advertisers in The Weekly newspaper.  I have to wonder how Attorney Doyle planned on using this information?  Why is this information important to Santa Clara in running its business or from a legal perspective?   Unless The Weekly is being accused of illegal transactions, Attorney Doyle has seriously overstepped his charter.  It is increasingly disappointing on the number of ramrod actions taken within the City of Santa Clara government.  They are emulating the actions of President Trump in thinking they can throw their collective weight around and feel that they can get away with it.  Not only has Attorney Doyle and Mayor Gillmor lost my respect due to their actions, they have both lost my vote. Thank

Winnie Sloan

In reference to “The Weekly” October 2nd article concerning the 2019 Charter Review Committee’s recommendation for a “Multi-Member District System” to replace Santa Clara’s Six-District Single Member election system brings back discrimination and probable illegality to Santa Clara local elections. Multi-member districts operate on the same principle as at-large elections. In multimember districts, multiple candidates run for a group of seats - seated in discriminatory tricks against “protected class” voters. Fighting those discriminatory tricks has been the purpose of the California Voter Rights Act (CVRA), since 2003. So far, all CVRA court rulings have ruled against at-large, and multimember districts being used in local elections. The law is still pursuing any government agency, still using these tricks in their election process. The City of Santa Clara has received a Santa Clara County Superior Court ruling against their at-large voting system, also rejecting their proposed alternative multimember election system. What the

Rex McIntosh

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