Posts Tagged ‘craig mann’
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
The NCAA basketball tournament is coming to town… Sal Pizarro has a “Lonely Planet” guide for those visiting… My advice, find Sal and hang out with him. He knows what’s up…
While the NCAA tournament will last only a few days, a judge’s ruling yesterday will have a big and long-lasting impact on the way some folks do business in City Hall in San Jose. To John Woolfolk: “…A Santa Clara County judge has ruled that San Jose must provide city officials’ private text messages, emails or other electronic communications about city affairs in response to an activist’s request…” We intercepted this text yesterday from 408-606-2060 to 408-535-4902, “OMG, what now?”
While most of the news in East San Jose has revolved around George Shirakawa, there is more news about vacant seats. This one isn’t so much about felonies as it is about bad legal advice. Former Alum Rock School Board member Darcie Green resigned yesterday from the County Board of Education, a position she was appointed to in October. The only problem is the Board that appointed her was given bad legal advice about redistricting… which brought the appointment into question. Something interesting in the comments on the Merc webite from former County Board member Craig Mann. Read the story, then the comments (click for full size):
Tags: alum rock, ash kalra, craig mann, darcie green, ncaa, sal pizarro, sblc, shirakawa, text messages
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
This is a big news day, so make sure you have your Starbucks handy…
There are two strangely-related stories in today’s paper…
1. San Jose City Council candidate Xavier Campos has been avoiding this story for a long time, but it has finally caught up with him:
Campos faces new MACSA questions. Today, those questions are being raised by the Chamber of Commerce, which Campos could probably handle, but also by the John Woolfolk at the
Mercury News, which is probably a bigger problem for Campos. The Chamber did a public records request from the County Office of Education’s audit of MACSA as MACSA was embezzling money from teachers… and it seems Campos was around when it all went down… (If you are interested, you can see the Chamber’s “
op research” into the MACSA/Campos on the
Merc’s website…)
and then this…
2. DA Dolores Carr will (probably? maybe?)
serve out the rest of her term, even as she looks for a temp-judge gig. It seems rumors were swirling (or hopeful thoughts?) that she would leave early so Mr. Rosen can get in there… but we sense there are some hard feelings between Carr and Rosen so Carr is going to make him wait…
Story 1 + Story 2 = Flashback + Flashback…
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group held its
Projections event yesterday at Santa Clara University…
The Daily Fetch press credential must have gotten lost in cyberspace…
From the Leadership Group to the Chamber…
The Chamber endorsed Carly Fiorina. We are certain that will tip the scales heavily toward Fiorina… among the 4 people that follow the Chamber’s statewide endorsements… We do have to wonder, however, is this was a quid pro quo for Fiorina speaking at a major Chamber event in April.
We love the juxtaposition of these two stories:
and then there is this…
Perhaps it is because Alquist and Beall aren’t up there… (just kidding… we are certain they have absolutely nothing to do with the budget.)
Have a good weekend folks… 01…
Tags: 01, alquist, beall, chamber, craig mann, dolores carr, fiorina, jeff rosen, los altos, macsa, palo alto, safeway, skeen, svlg, xavier campos
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Here’s an interesting story: The Santa Clara Unifed School Board had quite a meeting last night. You see, the usually quiet Board had apparently been investigating a colleague (Ina Bendis) for overstepping her role when she yelled at (and maybe threatened) a District employee… We are sorry we missed the meeting, because the
Merc story describes an almost-fight that broke out between a Bendis supporter and former Superintendent Rod Adams. The Board voted 6-1 to “
scold” Bendis. Rumors about Craig Mann and Ina Bendis going into business together are unfounded… In looking around the Internet for any information about Ina Bendis, we learned two things: 1. She is up for re-election, which this public scolding will most definitely not help, and 2. She has an
unbelievably loud website. Check it out…
The
Merc’s Patty Fisher is about to get into a big fight with her Palo Alto neighbors. She thinks the City ought to think twice about shunning a High-Speed Rail station. Why?
Because not having a station ruined Macedonia… (It’s not what you think, but it is a good read…)
That’s it for now. Enjoy your day and your weekend…
Tags: craig mann, doug boxer, ina bendis, los altos, mulcahy, palo alto, patty fisher, reed, san jose a's, san jose firefighters, santa clara unified
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
The airport in San Jose is new, but we are learning more and more strange news about the place everyday. Remember last week we learned that airlines are complaining that the place sort of smells like a sewer. Now we learn that
idiots on the ground during take off and landing are shining lasers at airplanes from the ground. Who does this?
Team San Jose-Gate gets some
more (virtual) ink on
San Jose Inside… which, in turn, set off some funny (and perhaps insightful) comments…
Yesterday we wrote about how two government agencies (the City of San Jose and the County) punted two big issues (Team San Jose and the ambulance contract)… yesterday, another government agency, the County Board of Education,
punted a censure of their colleague (Craig Mann) and instead just gave him a slap on the wrist for crazy emails he sent to the Superintendent. Interesting, Craig Mann has
local attorney Chris Schumb representing him…
You may remember a little dust-up in the usually-dust-up-free community of Los Altos between the Packard Foundation and the City of Los Altos. It was about a payment the Foundation was supposed to be making to the City. Don’t worry.
Cooler (and weathier) heads have prevailed.
Mission City Lantern pays us a compliment, so thank you. But you also compliment a blog that hasn’t been updated since May 18th (
Politicon Valley). James, you really think
Politicon Valley is “underrated”? You can’t even get rated unless you actually blog…
That is from the Merc Editorial today. We would hate for anything to cross a “lone”…
Tags: county, craig mann, eggs, kassing, Lantern, packard, politicon, schumb, sjc, sjsu, team san jose
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Yesterday was the filing deadline for many local school board seats.
Of interest: Bob Nunez, the former Superintendent in the East Side Union High School District, is running for a seat on the East Side Union High School District Board… Craig Mann, of “about-to-be-censured” and “Terry Gregory” fame, has a challenger named Angie Cardoza… And Cy Mann, of “Water Board member not paying water bills” fame, is running for school board but has two challengers… (The
Merc loves writing about Cy Mann… and not in a good way for Mann.
He got his own story today.) More to come on these races no doubt… and probably more stories about both C. Manns…
In the world of blogs…
San Jose Inside (The Fly) looks at the San Jose District 9 race pitting anti-gay activist Larry Pegram against school board member Don Rocha. Specifically, The Fly looks at Mayor Chuck Reed’s endorsement of Pegram. Even more specifically,
The Fly references The Daily Fetch…
We’re famous!
Tags: ben field, bob nunez, cindy chavez, craig mann, cy mann, hangar one, inside, Lantern, los altos, mv voice, nasa, usa swimming
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
In other election news, folks who live in the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District will be voting on
a new parcel tax to help fund community colleges. Following on the Community Colleges in San Mateo County, who (barely) passed a parcel tax in June, Foothill-DeAnza is breaking some new ground in our County with a Community College Parcel Tax…
Speaking of food…
Supervisor Ken Yeager pushed earlier in the year to create a produce delivery service from local farmers to County workers… which seems all well and good.
Except the folks delivering the food to the County are actually from Salinas. Supervisor Gage (not to mention County farmers) are none-too-pleased with what’s going on. Thank you to the
Morgan Hill Times for being on top of it all…
From the blogs about town:
Dweeb.org (Jim Griffith) provides the full run-down (as always) of the
last Sunnyvale Council meeting. We would love
Dweeb.org’s take on the goings-on with his colleague in Palo Alto. That would be a blogerific post to read…
Tags: 420, craig mann, cy mann, dweeb.org, ford, gage, Lantern, palo alto, resendez, san jose, spitaleri, water district, yeager
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
In other news… a pot tax and a repeal of binding arbitration for public safety unions will head to the San Jose City Council next week and likely to the ballot in November. Fireworks are about to commense…
Also, did anyone else notice the shine coming off Councilmember Pete Constant’s head during the online version of the Rules Committee meeting… plus the goatee… The rumor that Constant was the stand-in for Travolta on his latest movie is unconfirmed…
Speaking of Pete Constant… In the hard-copy version of the Metro, there was apparently a story that Julie Constant (Pete Constant’s wife) is running for Campbell Union Elementary School Board? Is that right? A tipster sent us that, but we’ll have to pick a copy up ourselves today…
Tags: craig mann, eshoo, julie constant, pete constant, san jose a's, singletary, teresa alvarado
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
It is all baseball all the time in San Jose… Bud Selig is “
disappointed” and “
surprised” by San Jose’s push to go to voters to get approval for a baseball stadium in downtown San Jose. Well Mr. Selig, suprised and disappointed is how many folks feel about your leadership at the helm of Major League Baseball. With all due respect…
Well, it isn’t all about baseball, it is all about pot taxes too… San Jose may put
a 10 percent pot tax on the ballot in November. Some folks think 10 percent is too high… (Get it? Too high…) We’d love to see the Chamber of Commerce come out opposing the pot tax: Pat Dando on the pro-pot side of things…
And while we don’t really know where Pat Dando at the Chamber is on the local (or the State) plans for pot… we do know where
Merc colunmist Scott Herhold is:
Yes on Prop 19 (aka Prop 420)…
Last week we learned that the Couty Board of Education was going to be the latest public agency to slap Craig Mann on the wrist as they were considering a censure motion brought by fellow board member Leon Beauchmon. Well, the Board punted until August 25th — which is (not coincidently) beyond the date someone could file to run against Craig Mann, who is up for re-election —
which has apparently not escaped the notice of Teresa Alvarado…
As an election nears to replace State Senator (now State Lt. Governor) Abel Maldonado, some news comes to light about a federal tax lien against Maldonado’s farming business. Of course, Maldonado finds himself in a race with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to become elected (rather than appointed) to the Lt. Governorship.
The IRS has some pretty bad timing…
On a final note:
Joseph George Fine Wines is turning 70… Which is great news if you like great wine. And
The Daily Fetch loves us some good wine, especially right after we hit “publish” at 9:01 a.m. every morning…
Tags: 420, alvarado, craig mann, dando, gilroy, leon beauchm, maldonado, mlb, selig
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Let’s start with baseball and San Jose. Lew Wolff is still displeased and so are some vocal (and wacky) A’s fans who continue to hang anti-Lew Wolff signs at the Coliseum.
A new voice in Oakland is emerging trying to keep the A’s there: Doug Boxer. If that last name sounds vaguely familiar it is because he has a famous mother. Perhaps when she visits Silicon Valley to pick up her campaign checks, someone could ask her why San Jose doesn’t deserve a Major League Baseball team…
The Port of Alviso. Seriously, people are throwing money at the idea. Actually, people like the Water District are studying it, but it doesn’t seem like the most practical idea, no matter what Water District Spokes Dude Rick Callendar says. There is a public meeting tonight about it, but we found a few facts interesting about
this story from the Merc:
While we’re on it:
Protect San Jose chimes in on a topical item today — San Jose Police Officers’ Association President George Beattie
writes a few paragraphs about the contract that his members approved that will go to the San Jose City Council on August 3rd.
The
Merc Editorial Board would like Republican State Senate candidate
Sam Blakeslee to debate his opponent John Laird somewhere open and in the public. There are two debates scheduled, but one is only for members of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and the other one is hosted by a group that hates John Laird. If
Lincoln and Douglas could do it, Blakeslee and Laird ought to be able to figure something out too…
A
Googling Libertarian (with an apparent lazy streak, according to the Mountain View Voice story) is running for City Council in Mountain View…
And we wouldn’t want to go two days without
someone, somewhere blasting High-Speed Rail. This week it is Gilroy and their special Council meeting on the topic. Mayor Al Pinheiro compared the train to the Berlin Wall… East Berlin never had outlets, however.
Tags: alviso, blakeslee, boxer, craig mann, facebook, hsr, inside, laird, mp, oakland a's, Oliverio, ron gonzales, sjpoa
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
In
other Internal Affairs news… the count on election night was very, very slow. But anyone who was watching the results knows that. If Supervisor Liz Kniss would like things to speed up, she should make an appointment to see San Mateo’s election chief Warren Slocum before he sails off into the sunset… he is the master counter, master web results guy, and all things technology and elections…
Here’s a headline that might sound like something you’ve read before:
Tempers flare on Santa Clara County school Board. The County Board of Education is having all kinds of chaos between Board members and with their Superintendent. It seems a few Board members (like
Craig Mann) don’t like the Superintendent, and other Board members (like Leon Beauchmon) don’t like
Craig Mann. Isn’t this the same cast of characters that ran the last Superintendent out of town?
The Daily Fetch, and our previous iteration as Watch Dog Silicon Valley, had some not-so-nice things to say about
Eddie Garcia, the Chief of Staff to Supervisor George Shirakawa, Jr. and the East Side Union High School Board member, but we also wish him well as
he recuperates from a heart attack…
If you have thoughts about downtown Morgan Hill,
you should call Barry Swenson, because he is redeveloping a chunk of it and wants to hear from you…
While we are in South County, a fourth middle school may be opened in the coming year in Gilroy Unified
to alleviate overcrowding at the current three… And with school budgets so full of cash, it seems like a great time for more schools.
Tags: craig mann, dick santos, eddie garcia, foothill-deanza, gilroy uniified, herhold, leon beauchmon, Morgan Hill, p cortese
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