Posts Tagged ‘internal affairs’
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Local nightclub, bail bond, and union lobbyists Tom Saggau and Dustin DeRollo (apparently) need to review their employment practices. According to the Merc’s Karen de Sa, the two had ambulance company Rural/Metro as a client while they employed George “free lunch” Shirakawa as a “consultant.” Shortly thereafter Gambling George became a supervisor and Rural/Metro became Santa Clara County’s ambulance provider. Not sure how that sounds to you, but to us it’s about as shady as Jeff “I am the law” Rosen’s second set of books! 
Last week San Jose Inside told us Cindy Chavez’s campaign flyers probably skirted the law. And in their new role of breaking news second to the Metro (and the Daily Fetch) the Merc asked the FPPC to give their take on the “coordination” issue. The answer from the FPPC… “nah probably not.” But for some reason the Merc’s Tracy Seipel, hiding under the by-line of “Internal Affairs”, really tries to make it sound like Chavez did something wrong. We found this curious, so our spies peeped Tracy’s iPhone favorites. Now it all makes sense.
San Jose Inside gives us the heads up that one former entrenched labor leader is helping another entrenched labor leader raise some cash in the D2 Supervisors race.
In a lesson for San Jose politicos as to why they should not get kids all excited about naming baby animals, shortly after being named one of Clara’s falcons at San Jose City Hall took a header and fell 18 stories to its death. Guess the poor little guy just couldn’t take the unending stream of hot air coming from that building.
That whole, the bay bridge bolts getting defeated by rainwater thing…yeah…sounds like that’s the least of the thing’s problems. The SacBee’s on it…
Yahoo devourers another tech company to up its coolness factor.
In last week’s San Jose Rules Committee meeting, Mayor Luigi told us the WG’s Trestle bridge is “not historic, just old.” Long story short, that bridge is coming down! At that same meeting, D2 candidate David “off the” Wall got up to talk about a “pudgy peroxide bimbo who writes for the Mercury News.” We do not want to speculate as to who “off the wall” was talking about…David, please shoot us an email and let us know.
And as a reminder, if you’re trying to get a hold of us you can email us at wd@thedailyfetch.com. We leak the news so you don’t have to.
Tags: cindy chavez, david wall, derollo, internal affairs, jeff i am the law rosen, jeff rosen, Mayor Luigi, merc, metro/inside, pierluigi oliverio, rural metro, saggau, san jose inside, shirakawa, tracy seipel, yahoo
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
NBC Bay Area dropped a bomb on Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen this weekend. The county’s top prosecutor got caught altering time sheets to dole out paid vacation to handpicked appointees. The county attorney union’s attorney says this is a“gift of public funds” and illegal. Polish that turd Sean Webby.
Tracey Kaplan from the Mercury News piles on and discloses that County Exec Jeff Smith has ordered an investigation of Rosen’s actions and is worried about evidence being destroyed and has ordered “Mr. Transparency” not to hit the delete button or plug in the shredder. Jeffy!!!
IA let’s us know that Kansen Chu is (apparently) the only person around that’s made money from Facebook stock. Oh, and he’s running for Assembly.
The development bonanza that is the Santa Clara 49ers stadium has now spawned plans to convert a 230-acre city golf course into an “entertainment district” that Mayor Jamie Matthews implies could be a supersized Santana Row. Meanwhile, downtown San Jose continues to be a urine stained ghost town where our spies tell us tumbleweeds were seen blowing down Santa Clara Street this weekend.
Scott Herhold gives us his take on how the mayoral race is shaping up in San Jose. Clearly his “bromance” with Sam Liccardo is in full swing. And for those that gamble (George), the over/under on Herhold coming to the defense of Jeff Rosen giving away county money is –ANY minute now.
Tags: downtown san jose, facebook, george shirakawa, internal affairs, jeff rosen, jeff smith, kansen chu, nbc bay area, sam liccardo, santa clara 49ers, santana row, scott herhold, sean webby
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
Ok, so the big, big, big news came on Friday when George Shirakawa stepped down and is probably/seemingly/likely going to jail. If you read this blog, we’ll assume you’ve read the stories, know the issues, and talked about this story all weekend… Merc coverage, Herhold, Merc Editorial, San Jose Inside.
What next for the District? Well there’s this…
In other big news, Scott Herhold let’s us know about a possible San Jose lawsuit against the San Francisco Giants. Sam Liccardo is on the legal warpath and Mark Purdy suggests the Giants’ boots should be shaking…
In political news, Internal Affairs has more proof that San Jose Councilmember Don Rocha is ill suited for the San Jose City Council. It seems he walks out of meeting when colleagues he doesn’t like start speaking. Plus, when you are a model the stature of Rocha, sitting through boring meetings can hurt your complexion…
Internal Affairs also got some news from San Jose Inside… the folks at IA take Peter Allen to task for criticizing Pierluigi Oliverio. (If IA wants a list of all the people that criticize PO, shoot us an email…)
In other San Jose City Council news, the “Little Saigon” freeway sign went up over the weekend. Elected officials were falling all over themselves to out “Little Saigon” each other and brown nose a bit… Herhold takes a look.
There was a fire at Independence High School in San Jose over the weekend – which is tragic, of course. But the news doesn’t come from the hometown paper. It ended up on the Merc’s website after being reported by the SF Chronicle and then being picked up by the AP… which is where the Merc got the story. So much for local journalism…
Tags: ash kalra, dave cortese, don rocha, george shirakawa, herhold, internal affairs, little saigon, mark purdy, Oliverio, peter allen, sam liccardo, teresa alvarado
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
Another bad morning for Supervisor Shirakawa and another chapter in P-Card Gate… This time, the Merc picks up where the Metro left off: everyone and their brother are returning money to the County for Shirkawa-paid meals. Interesting, including his good bud (and former roommate?) George Sanchez.
While we’re at it, we have to poke a little fun at the Merc’s website… “Staff writers”:
It was a bad weekend in downtown San Jose… a kid got stabbed at Christmas in the Park. Yikes…
Speaking of crime, it seems Internal Affairs in the Merc has gone from being the place where political inside baseball is discussed to something decidedly more “crime”-y… Here’s their coverage from Sunday:
- Neighbors can’t get the police to respond…
- The Independent Police Auditor is getting word out to residents in San Jose that they should call the IPA when police do respond and act badly…
- The City of San Jose is holding public forums about the next police chief, but only in labor-leaning Council districts…
Speaking of the next Police Chief, John Woolfolk looks at the odds of the new chief being an “outsider”… in short, the odds are very good for an outsider.
Tags: christmas in the park, internal affairs, ipa, john woolfolk, p-card gate, shirakawa
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Monday, September 24th, 2012
Good morning friends and welcome back to the grind… We’ll start with politics:
Protect San Jose has picked up for the November election where they left off in the June election. They are launching the wordily-named Committee for Safe San Jose Neighborhoods, which seems like mostly an anti-Rose Herrera campaign front. If you are interested, they are having a meeting this week on August 27th.
While we’re in District 8 in San Jose, the Internal Affairs crew unearths an internal email inviting people to the “public safety hearing” that unions held at the same time the City Council in San Jose was holding a crime study session last week… It turns out that the union public safety hearing was political in nature… Shocked!
From District 8 to District 10 in San Jose where Robert Braunstein got the Mercury News Editorial nod over Johnny Khamis…
And if candidate elections aren’t you thing, perhaps elections to decide about “massive” development projects. If that’s your thing, take a look at what’s about to happen in Palo Alto…
To things decidedly not political, a Santa Clara Unified Principal was picked up on meth charges… In case you have forgotten about Santa Clara Unified’s strange past, here are some reminders…
Tags: braunstein, internal affairs, khamis, palo alto, protect, rose herrera, santa clara unified
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
It is almost May 1… absentee ballots go out next week and people will start voting on pension reform/modification. Can you feel the tension in San Jose?
Speaking of elections, there is one that the Mercury News Editorial Board would not like to see: the library funding measure currently circulating. Apparently Barbara Marshman hates libraries as much as Pete Constant and Larry Pegram. (Just kidding Ms. Marshman… sort of)
Oh, and the Merc Ed Board also doesn’t like payday lenders… but who does? The San Jose City Council and the County Board of Supervisors are in a race to impose the harshest limits. Manny Diaz is nowhere to be found this time…
To the Internal Affairs crew in the Merc…
It seems someone filed fraudulent names on the minimum wage petitions to qualify the measure in San Jose. The labor folks are doing their best Alfred E. Neuman: who me?
The Casino M8trix tussle is getting personal between the M8trix idiots and the City Manager’s office in San Jose. The M8trix folks put up Assistant City Manager’s phone number on the side of their building for folks to call for more information about when the casino would open up. Rich and Sean – really? Is that the best strategy?
A new voice at Protect San Jose… sort of. Kerry Hillis pens a piece about why SJPD will not be hiring 1099 officers in the near future (under his own name). Welcome (officially) to the blogosphere Kerry…
Tags: barbara marshman, internal affairs, kerry hillis, libraries, m8trix, manny diaz, minimum wage, payday, pensions, protect
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
Welcome back to the grind…
We like to poke fun at Protect San Jose (the San Jose Police Officers’ Association blog) for not blogging enough or on topical stuff… but they jumped the gun a little, well, a lot last week. Internal Affairs in the Merc has the full breakdown, but essentially Protect San Jose was a little too quick to say that the San Jose firefighter injured in last week’s blaze was never going to recover from his injuries, but he will, according to the San Jose Firefighters’ Association President. Oops. Protect San Jose’s blog post has been corrected… #prematuregate?
What is this all about? Well, late on Friday, San Jose unions filed suit against the City of San Jose over the ballot language in the pension reform measure… Let the legal manuevering begin!
In other Protect San Jose-related news… While they were blogging about an injured firefighter last week, one of their own (well, a former police officer) pled no contest to “sex acts with high school students…” Which brings out the most intelligent commenters on the Merc’s website…
In case you haven’t seen the monstrosity off of 101 or you don’t listen to sports radio… Casino M8trix is opening up next month. For a better understanding for what this means, we’ll refer you to Scott Herhold’s column from February…
Tags: #prematuregate, firefighters, internal affairs, m8trix, protect
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
It is a holiday, at least for all you readers who work in City Halls, the State Capitol, and Capitol Hill… But the rest of the world is working today. So let’s get to it…
San Jose’s
35th and 36th homicides of the year happened overt the weekend, tragically. And
Protect San Jose has been silent… they are still letting us know what is on the San Jose Council agenda… last week.
We generally make our interns wake up first thing on Sunday mornings to get online and read the Merc’s Internal Affairs… but Internal Affairs either wasn’t published this week, or the Merc is trying to get folks to subscribe to the paper for home delivery, because we can’t find it online… and neither can pjallen2… Maybe everyone was at Occupy Wall Street protest…
Finally, the Steve Jobs memorials keep coming in… Over the weekend, former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery proved that his Mac II still works and
penned a piece for the Merc… much to the chagrin of Cindy Chavez no doubt…
Tags: cindy chavez, homicide, internal affairs, occupy wall street, pjallen2, protect, santa clara 49ers, santa clara raiders, steve jobs, tom mcenery
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
In other sporting news, Internal Affairs at the
Merc… and it was a lot more fun that it usually is. It seems San Jose Councilmember Ash Kalra was at a bachelor party and was either keeping his mouth shut about the San Jose A’s or blabbing about the San Jose A’s, depending on whom you believe. Councilmember Kalra (
through his Chief of Staff) says to not believe the story on
newballpark.org… We’ll see what “Sid,” who told the story on the blog, has to say. We’ve invited him to post here whenever he wants…
In blog news…
Protect San Jose seems to be shaking off their August blogcation and back at their “weekly”
Council Watch feature…
Get back to you work…
Tags: ash kalra, chris moore, internal affairs, marathon, newballpark.org, palo alto, protect, san jose a's, santa clara 49ers
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
The
Merc Editorial Board has been meeting with Lew Wolff apparently… They want Bud Selig to make a decision, “
any decision“…
See you tomorrow…
Tags: bud selig, chronicle, facebook, internal affairs, ken yeager, pete constant, protect san jose, scott herhold
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