February 12, 2010
Morning News Round-Up — 2.12.10: We hardly knew you Rosemary…
Abel Maldonado was nominated by Governor Schwarzenegger to be the next Lieutenant Governor… unfortunately, he didn’t get 41 votes in the State Assembly to make it so… he did get a majority — 37 to 35. So the Governor is going to swear him on February 23rd which is about to set off a legal battle in Sacramento. This entire episode is going to make everyone look even stupider than they already do in Sacramento, which is not easy.
There was the first (in what will be a long list of) candidates’ forum in District 5 in San Jose last night in the race to replace Councilmember Nora Campos. The candidates there were Xavier Campos, Manuel Hererra, Aaron Resendez, and Magdalena Carrasco. The filing deadline hasn’t even passed for the race, so we’ll see how things shake out. Were there any Watch Dogs there that have any inside scoop about how the forum went?
Just as candidates were talking about how to address issues in East San Jose a 15 year old was stabbed to death 2 miles away.
Rosemary Kamei, we hardly knew you. You may recognize the name — she is on the Water Board and was a candidate in the Supervisor’s race to replace Don Gage. Unfortunately, she was one of the people that couldn’t raise any money in the crowded field with Teresa Alvarado, Forrest Williams, Mike Wasserman, and Peter Arellano. Leaving the race she is endorsing Forrest Williams, which is ironic because leaving the race actually hurts Williams and helps Alvarado… it’s funny how politics work…
We aren’t sure we re-wrote about this story earlier in the week, but ex-Superintendent Bob Nunez showed up at a special East Side Union High School District Board meeting and blasted the current Board after his name had been more or less cleared in an audit conducted by the County Office of Education. The County’s audit put the blame for screwed up stuff in the District squarely on the School Board…
Silicon Valley is at risk. Silicon Valley is at risk. So says the Joint Venture Silicon Valley index…
Los Gatos is so much like San Francisco… they banned panhandling in traffic medians… we guess making the car payments on the BMW makes people do desperate things…
County Superior Court Judge Lucy Koh’s nomination in being heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee so her confirmation could be close… if the weather ever lets up in DC. Which would mean there could be an addition race for judge in the County this year — in addition to the 3 that are lining up right now.
Finally, from the blogosphere…
Kathleen Flynn over on Protect San Jose has some strong words to politicians and their supporters using victims’ families for political purposes. Of course, this means that Kathleen probably forgot that she has invoked victims and their families in blog comments supporting JimCogan’s run for Distrit 9 San Jose City Council. (Thank you City Hall Watch Dogger…)