Posts Tagged ‘jeff rosen’
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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Friday, May 17th, 2013
The Mercury News tells us of the next chapter in the Darcie Green saga. After first being elected to the Alum Rock School Board, and then vacating said position to be appointed to the County School Board, and then having to vacate said position as her appointment violated the law…Darcie Green is back again on the County School Board. 
She’s once, twice, three times a lady (on the school board).
Atlantic Aviation has filed another lawsuit against Google International Airport.
Speaking of SJC, a woman and her Prius had a run-in with a light rail train near the airport yesterday.
For you health nuts, watch it when you’re hiking the Los Gatos Creek Trail (no that’s not a euphemism). Rabid bats have been found in the area…Run for your lives!
Cindy Chavez’s tax hike (Measure A) survived a court challenge yesterday.
All you “Big Bang Theory” fans are going to love Google’s quantum computer lab that will study artificial intelligence. The machine will take up space at NASA Ames. We love us some weird science.
Palo Alto why do you hate old people? Residents of PA are up in arms over a proposal to build affordable senior housing near their palaces.
The Warriors channeled their best Patricia Martinez Roach and lost last night. But like PMR, they will be back in the next election, ummm, we mean season.
County Supervisor Joe Simitian wants to put letter grades on restaurants, just like many other locales. While you’re at it Joe, can you assign a grade to county department heads? We wonder what grade DA Jeff “I am the law” Rosen would get? 
The Amgen Tour la Californie peddles though San Jose today. Hopefully these bicyclists won’t piss off Liccardo and cruise the sidewalks.
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: amgen, atlantic aviation, cindy chavez, darcie green, google, google international airport, jeff i am the law rosen, jeff rosen, joe simitian, los gatos creek trail, nasa ames, palo alto, patricia martinez-roach, sam liccardo, sjc
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
We swear we’re not making this up…NBC Bay Area uncovers that Jeff “I am the law” Rosen has been cooking the books. (Apparently) He kept a secret hand written ledger, separate from official payroll records, to keep track of his vacation payoffs to his top lieutenants. Not sure about you, but the situation sounds a wee bit familiar to us…
Our Twitter followers heard it first (well second, thank you SVBJ) yesterday morning that Mercury News Publisher Mac Tully is leaving for the Denver Post. The SV Business Journal reports on his departure and his replacement, Steve Rossi.
And what’s this? Unions collaborating with the Democratic Party to elect a union boss who was also the Vice Chair of the Democratic Party…nah not in this town.
We thank one of our spies for sending the latest from Sunnyvale. With the lead to the story starting out, Images of the Three Stooges were juxtaposed with the cast of “Downton Abbey”…we feel excused in our lateness covering the censure of a Sunnyvale councilman.
Google…Apple…Intel…GAP… by your powers combined we maybe could get the Super Bowl.
(Apparently) San Jose gang members are running out of cars to steal in San Jo’ so they’re moving on to Morgan Hill.
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: democrats, jeff i am the law rosen, jeff rosen, nbc bay area, santa clara 49ers, silicon valley business journal, sunnyvale, SVBJ
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Monday, May 13th, 2013
It’s the day after mother’s day; we hope you remembered to call your mom. Speaking of mother’s day, the Merc’s Internal Affairs columnists need a little hug from their Momma. 
Aww we’re sorry guys. Glad you’re all readers though. And glad we could provide you with content for ¾ of this week’s IA—GOP Darling Alvarado, Moore leaving for More Money, and their investigative piece on ‘lil old Fetch. (Apparently), we work (for free) so you don’t have to.
Seems the Merc sleuths got their tighty-whities in a bunch cuz’ every now and then we have a sharp edge. Of course, the Rosen/Alvarado Cheerleaders blame it on unions…How offensive, we at the Fetch are equal opportunity haters.
Thank god we don’t have any news racks for you to take out your aggression on.…but we digress.
Our spies tell us Scott “Might Mouse” Herhold has taken a breather from telling insiders he got the current DA elected by penning column after column trashing his predecessor and now has his sites set on entrenched labor leader Cindy Chavez. In a Happy Mother’s Day screed he abandons any and all pretext of fairness and fires his latest salvo about how Chavez possesses mind control and that Jeff “I am the law” Rosen is a wimp and felt threatened.
The Merc’s Ed Board tells us they think Rural/Metro does a crappy job providing ambulance service.
Madison Nguyen is still pissing off folks in the Vietnamese community.
Mark Zuckerberg just started his political action committee FWD.us and some of his members are not too pleased with his initial moves that they un-friended him.
A pesky thing like the environment will not stop Google’s take over of SJC.
SJ Inside tells us about former Chief Chris Moore cashing in after cashing out about a quarter-million in sick leave. At least SJI let’s folks know when they get a story from us.
And as a reminder, if you’re trying to get a hold of us or leak us some info you can email us at wd@thedailyfetch.com. We leak the news so you don’t have to.
Tags: chris moore, cindy chavez, google, jeff rosen, madison nguyen, mercury news, rural/metro, scott herhold, sjc, teresa alvarado
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013
No joke people, what the f is going on with Jeff “I am the law” Rosen? Has he lost his mind? And when will his apologists, stop explaining away the insanity and start doing their jobs?
Punish your enemies, especially those that speak out…sound familiar?…
The Metro’s San Jose Inside is running this advertisement on their site. Pot Shops and more Guns, thanks Metro for making us safer.
Twitter leasing space in Sunnyvale is another sign that Silicon Valley is on its way back.
Levi’s stadium. Enough said.
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Tags: jeff i am the law rosen, jeff rosen, levi's stadium, metro, santa clara 49ers, sunnyvale, twitter
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Bad news potheads and the classified ad guy at the Metro, the State Supreme Court says it’s legal for cities to ban ganja clubs.
Let’s take an informal poll, are you more surprised that the Mercury News endorsed GOP darling Teresa Alvarado, or that it took them so long to do it? If you want to watch the hour-long interview of the top tier D2 candidates, be our guest. Personally we’d prefer to watch paint dry or listen to Chuck Reed tell knock, knock jokes.
Stupid criminal award goes to the woman who robbed a San Jose 7-11 and crashed get away car into a tree…near the same spot she dumped cars after robbing two other 7-11’s the month before…Genius!
Jennifer Wadsworth over at the Metro does a run down of today’s SJ council agenda. (Apparently) city staff are tired of using Windows 95 and want to move into the 21st century. We have a few licenses for Windows Vista we can give you folks gratis.
Cambrian 36 celebrated its hatred of all things San Jose by joining the City of Campbell last week. San Jose’s reaction… “Campbell’s not part of San Jose?”
Jeff “I am the law” Rosen got a little reprieve recently from the controversy swirling around his dastardly deeds. (Apparently) he won a major award. In his acceptance comments he said he intends to “improve the quality of justice in our community.” What he didn’t say is that he will do it by rewarding his buddies with jobs and gifting public funds to his top lieutenants.
Sal Pizzaro writes about the oddest circle jerk in memory involving members of the SJ City Council…politicians in funny hats, on funny apparatus…when will they learn?
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Tags: cambrian 36, jeff rosen, metro, potclubs, state supreme court, teresa alvarado
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Monday, May 6th, 2013
Much to the chagrin of the editorial chatterati at the Merc, NBC Bay Area broke the news that the best-looking Attorney General in the country has started a civil investigation into Jeff “I am the law” Rosen. The Merc followed NBC with this about the criminal investigation.
Did you know that there are more than just two candidates running for D2 County Supervisor? Us neither. Apparently, crazy pants Patricia Martinez-Roach, not content with losing two elections in a 12-month span is going for 3. Also running is David Wall. We pray to all the puppy gods that one of these two wins. It would be glorious.
There are a few additional vanity candidates who equally don’t have a snowballs chance in hell. You can check their stands on the issues by going to their websites…oh, that’s right, none of them have one.
And now to the main event. The Merc has a run down on mama’s girl and GOP darling Teresa Alvarado and a treatise on entrenched labor leader and Chuck Reed nemesis Cindy Chavez. When is the election again?
Speaking of Chuck Reed, (apparently) his budget director hearts him some Cindy Chavez. We wish him a better fate at the hands of our vengeful Mayor than poor Peter Allen.
To the Metro. Wow guys, we thought we were harsh. So ah…I guess it goes without saying that you don’t like Stacey Hendler? We here at the Fetch are adamantly pro first amendment. But how exactly does an angry phone call from a lackey employed by a non-government entity threaten anyone’s first amendment rights? Maybe what you’re saying is that no one can criticize journalists because it might lower their self-esteem or something. But…if we were to say people couldn’t criticize journalists…wouldn’t that be constraining first amendment rights?
Anything else go on this weekend? Honestly, we’re not sure. We’re still getting over our Cinco hangover.
Tags: Chuck Reed, cindy chavez, david wall, jeff rosen, kamala harris, merc, metro, patricia martinez-roach, stacey hendler, teresa alvarado
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Glad to see that some of you have been paying attention to our email address. Yesterday, one of our spies emailed us this little gem from the Republican Party telling their members about how awesome GOP darling Teresa Alvarado is. Though they are absent from your official list, they like you Teresa, they really like you!
Meanwhile, in the interest of equal time…(apparently) Mike Honda hating Gavin Newsom digs him some Cindy Chavez. But…hasn’t Mike Honda also endorsed the entrenched labor leader? Awk-ward. And rounding out our D2 Race coverage, Rich Robinson has some more of his unsolicited advice.
The Merc’s Barb Marshman took up the slack from Scott “Mighty Mouse” Herhold as the in-house apologist for Jeff “I Am The Law” Rosen and came out swinging against unions…shocking. Marshman assures us that Rosen’s many problems are all about the big bad unions conspiring with the Merc’s Tracey Kaplan, not Rosen’s proclivity for rewarding friends with unauthorized public funds, difficulty telling the truth and hiring buddies and family members (nepotism much?).
Our spies tell us that future Merc Editorial headlines will include; Unions Caused WWII, Chavez is the Manchurian Candidate, Stubbed Your Toe In Middle of Night—Unions Did It!
Looks like the Knight Ridder sign is going away just like Knight Rider.
Next week we might reveal some of the treasure trove of docs that have filled our in-box, like maybe: A former elected official abusing taxpayer dollars, a former politician’s house that caught on fire and was repaired by a developer, resumes that fudged to get jobs and raises, a candidate who used public resources for their campaign and got disciplined for it…should make for interesting reading. Stay tuned.
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Tags: barb marshman, gavin newsom, jeff rosen, mike honda, republicans, scott herhold, teresa alvarado
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
Santa Clara County DA Jeff “I am the law” Rosen is back in the news again this time for using his power as an elected official to hire friends and family and also to reward political allies. Sean Webby sure is good at his job. We’re sure Scott “Mighty Mouse” Herhold will come to Rosen’s defense again…any time now.
The parent company of the Mercury News, BANG!, has won a major award for having some awesome journalists. In other news, the Mercury is still poaching the news from reading the Metro.
Beyond talking about lunch conversation at PF Chang’s, the Merc’s Karen de Sa lets us know that Rural Metro needs to up its game. Better step it up folks, Joe “no texting, while driving” Simitian has his eye on all y’all.
Having had their fill of Mayor Reed’s impotence before the might of a sport league boss, SJ businesspersons are preparing to take matters into their own hands and sue MLB to get the A’s to SJ. Leading the charge…Scott Knies??? Downtown Association’s perennial complainer who can’t even keep the bums out of St. James Park or fill the empty storefronts that plague our downtown. You know, the urine stained downtown where it looks like someone detonated a neutron bomb.
That whole Bay Bridge bolt breaking thing should not have come as a surprise given that the bolts were made of an alloy banned from being used on bridges because…wait for it…wait for it…it’s known to break.
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Tags: Chuck Reed, jeff rosen, mercury news, metro, rural metro, san jose a's, scott herhold, scott knies
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Metro/San Jose Inside quotes an “unnamed source” who (apparently) told an “unnamed reporter,” that Cindy Chavez had lunch with DA Jeff Rosen and, just like (according to our spies) Teresa Alvarado’s Mom, Blanca, GI Forum’s Victor Garza and Lobbyist Pete Carrillo, tried to influence the investigation of George “Free-Lunch” Shirakawa. Got all that? Unlike the substantiated charges against Jeff “I am the law” Rosen, however, this someone said, she said, he or she said episode reminds us of a certain childhood game…remember this?
Question: when Cindy was putting the squeeze on Rosen, did the “unnamed source” tell the “unnamed reporter” if they ate the shrimp with candied walnuts or split an egg roll? Salivating minds want to know.
In other news, Clara the Falcon has had three boy chiclets. Be sure to get your naming submissions in ASAP, only three days left!
The umps in San Jose got this one right…SJ to drop $38 fee on sports officials.
Back to politics, rut ro! Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has endorsed Ro Khanna. Well that’s kind of a big deal.
Tags: blanca alvarado, cindy chavez, clara the falcon, gavin newsom, george shirakawa, jeff rosen, metro, metro/inside, pete carrillo, ro khanna, teresa alvarado, victon garza
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