Posts Tagged ‘merc’
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
The Merc’s Tracey Kaplan writes about Jeff “I am the law” Rosen screaming “all aboard” for this latest ride on his crazy train. Hot on the heels of the Merc Editorial Board’s lauding of the immaculacy of Boss Rosen’s hires, one of those hires has been fired by the county. The reason? Being the brother-in-law to Rosen’s number two in the office, Jay Boyarsky, isn’t enough; you actually have to meet the minimum qualifications for the job.
Rosen’s communications guy, Sean “big brother” Webby, who our spies tell us got a nice salary bump, had this to say his boss; “No comment”. Glad your getting more money to say less. Snoop on any phone calls lately?
And in a major economic boom to the South Bay the Santa Clara 49ers will be hosting the Super Bowl in 2016. Congratulations Jamie Mathews, who could be our favorite local Mayor!
Now that Metro has a stack of emails, minutes and other documents from the Health Foundation, who’s Board both Teresa Alvarado and Cindy Chavez sit on, we’re sure they will have enough material to keep their keyboards clicking for days. They’ve even given their new series the catchy name, “Family Health Fiasco.” Their first post…a tale about Kathleen King fundraising while also being a government employee. What’s next?
And in a sign that the San Jose City Council may be trying the product they are increasing taxes on, they have approved another $1 million dollars to go with the first million dollars to continue litigation on Measure B. Protect San Jose, what say you?
Chick-fil-A is bringing a new location to Sunnyvale. We’re sure Chuck Reed will be the first in line.
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: barbara marshman, chick-fil-a, Chuck Reed, cindy chavez, jay boyarsky, jeff i am the law rosen, kathleen king, merc, metro, protect san jose, santa clara 49ers, santa clara county health foundation, sean webby, teresa alvarado
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
A guy walks into a pizza joint and walks out with all the dough…no, not the cash…the dough. Thank god Los Altos PD’s sketch artist has enough time on his or her hands to do a composite of this obviously “dangerous” individual.
Merc sports editor/writer Mark Purdy says football players want to touch you…no, not like that…get your mind out of the gutter people.
Union spokesperson and San Jose Councilperson Ash Kalra writes in the Merc that it’s time for the city (Chuck Reed) to stop its war on employees. And today the city council is poised to spend another $1 million on outside legal counsel to defend Measure B and continue its war on employees. What’s $2 million when you’re broke?
Looks like Santa Clara County’s Valley Medical Center is in the news for something smart; being innovative and technologically savvy, we swear. Moving into the 21st century is a great thing.
Speaking of sports the broke as hell CSU system is going to vote today on whether to renovate San Jose State’s Spartan stadium.
Victory for the gumshoes at San Jose Inside. They won in court the right to read all the emails from those evil people who like to give kids and poor people health insurance. Yay!
Palo Alto’s City Council wants to buy it’s own post office and Mt. View wants to save an old shack.
Governor Brown has expanded upon his “shit happens” view expressed early in the month regarding the Bay Bridge and now says the State will make the bridge safe before it opens. Thank you Governor Moonbeam.
Goodbye, Bay Citizen. Hello, Center for Investigative Journalism.
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Tags: ash kalra, bay citizen, center for investigative journalism, los altos, merc, mt. view, palo alto, san jose inside, san jose state, santa clara county health foundation, valley medical center
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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.
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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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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Thank you loyal readers for using our wickedly awesome email inbox, where we found this diamond in the rough. (Apparently) while the Merc and the Metro drool all over their “reform candidate,” it’s us over here at the itty-bitty Daily Fetch giving you the straight dope.
So…guess who got reprimanded and formally disciplined by her boss for launching her Supervisorial campaign using government resources? Drumroll…. None other than GOP darling Teresa Alvarado. On the very day after announcing her “reform platform” Beau Goldie from the “Golden Spigot” calls bullshit.
Wow…Alvarado’s first act as a candidate was to use public resources to benefit herself after being warned by her boss not to use public resources to benefit herself. Sounds like that whole reform thing will apply to everyone but Teresa Alvarado, how Republican of her. On the other hand, at least Alvarado has some issues and positions on her website, unlike the Chavez campaign whose website is just a step above nonexistence.
Meanwhile, Sunnyvale got a new 3D printer. Normally buying a printer is about as much cause for alarm as petting a kitten, but 3D printers aren’t exactly your father’s Epson when it comes to gun nuts.
Maybe if the Mayor Reed’s Budget Director (and Milpitas Councilperson) Armando Gomez was paying less attention to the District 2 race he would have been able to stop his City from going broke.
You know who’s not broke? Just about every tech nerd whose lunch money you used to steal.
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Tags: armando gomez, beau goldie, cindy chavez, fortune 500, golden spigot, merc, metro, republicans, sunnyvale, 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, April 26th, 2013
Ken Yeager thinks Chuck Reed is a bigot and won’t meet with the anti-gay marriage mayor. Speaking on his opposition to gay marriage in 2006, Reed explained it was because “traditional” marriage has “been that way for thousands of years…” Yeager’s not alone. Even Reed’s fan club at the Merc Editorial Board thinks the grumpy old man is behind the times.
Tracey Seipel loves her some T and A, she reports that Teresa Alvarado has taken the lead in the fundraising race for D2 by a couple of thousand dollars. The three ladies in the race filed their campaign reports on-time and on-line, the three men took a page from Shirakawa and did not file on-line, let’s hope they were on time…you following that?
(Apparently) the City of San Jose and the San Jose Police Officers’ Association have actually agreed on something. While Deb Figone does her best “happy dance” over the news, the SJPOA’s John Robb pours cold water on the celebration saying because of Measure B, “this represents the maximum benefit that we could have negotiated and neighborhood safety will pay the price for Mayor Reed’s stubbornness.” So, where exactly is the “agreement” part in this agreement?
Speaking of the POPO, Acting Chief Esquivel has a new mission statement for the San Jose Police Department and it is called RCITI (Our City). We wonder if his creative process went a little like that one guy who made up a mission statement that was equally destined to go nowhere.
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Tags: Chuck Reed, ken yeager, larry esquivel, merc, san jose, sjpoa, tracey seipel
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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
The Silicon Valley Business Journal continues to show that it’s one of the best sources of information for everything going on in the real—meaning nonpolitical—world in SV. They were first to report yesterday that San Jose is going to try to give Santa Clara a run for its money…Yay, now the Row will be able to fit even more douchebags wearing too much cologne! That sound you hear is San Jose’s urine-stained downtown’s death rattle.
Speaking of death rattles, the Mercury News will begin a new round of layoffs this Sunday. 118 of the Merc’s employees will be shown the door.
Talk about some Measure B revisionist history. The Merc’s Barbara Marshman begins her best imitation of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk by now saying; “Measure B… it’s mired in the courts, and some provisions are, oh, let’s say legally risky if not doomed.” Looks like one of the biggest cheerleaders of Measure B aint so sure anymore. Protect San Jose, what say you?
And in another editorial, this time in the Merc’s sister publication, The Milpitas Post shows some courage and calls out DA Jeff “I am the law” Rosen for his gift of public funds to a select group of his supporters, uh, umm, we mean his hand picked appointees.
If you need a caffeine fix, you should probably avoid going to a Campbell Starbucks that’s been invaded…by bed bugs. Once a problem for only seedy motels, bed bugs have (apparently) developed a taste for mocha java. 
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Tags: barbara marshman, campbell, measure b, merc, silicon valley business journal, starbucks, the row
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
Jeff Rosen says he didn’t break the law when he gifted unearned time-off to his buddies to make up for a pay cut. The problem? The Merc’s Tracey Kaplan reports that a confidential Santa Clara County Counsel memo concludes Jeff Rosen probably did break the law and had no authority to alter timesheets.
It gets worse for Rosen and the County. NBC’s investigative sleuths reveal Rosen’s actions may end up costing Santa Clara County a gazillion dollars. Why? Because (apparently) the county’s unions have what’s called a “me-too” clause, which allows them to get the same thing that Rosen gave to his buddies. Rut Ro!
So ah, Mighty Mouse, we mean Herhold, you going to jump to Rosen’s defense now? …umm…yeah…
The real estate market is heating up in north San Jose. As far as we’re concerned it’s about time. San Jose’s bay front has been neglected for far to long if you ask us. Hopefully it won’t just be industrial parks.
In the market for a Maserati? You’re in luck; a dealership will be coming soon to Stevens Creek. Personally, we just plan on taking one for a test drive and cruising the Row.
Tags: herhold, jeff rosen, maserati, merc, nbc bay area, north san jose, tracey kaplan
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Yesterday, “Mayor Luigi” showed us all the very definition of tone deaf. In the midst of a terrorist attack on America he publishes a blog on San Jose Inside advocating for the privatization of police officers and firefighters at SJC, one of the Valley’s most likely targets. Heck of a job “Mayor” Sweatpants.
25 Bay Area marathoners registered for the Boston Marathon. Check the Google “people finder” page to search for loved ones.
Airport Re-dux? A whole lot of noise is coming out of SJC airport spin artist Bill Sherry. Elimination of the airport noise curfew is on the SJ Council agenda tonight, let’s see if the council’s resident contortionist Sam Liccardo can maneuver out of this one.
San Jose made CNN in a bad way again. (Apparently) the Valley’s hookers have gone high tech by innovating something called “Whorecasting.” Their term not ours. With all of the police cutbacks at least Mayor Reed was able to put the Ho back in San Jose.
The Merc is for sale. No not the actual paper (for the time being), just the building it lives in at 750 Ridder Park Drive. And (apparently) Mac is being coy on whether the paper’s new location will even be in San Jose.
A little outside our jurisdiction, but curious nonetheless, Caltrans is murdering swallows in Sonoma. No word on whether they were African or European.
Shirakawa loses another 50K, this time to the FPPC. The proposed fine will be voted on by the FPPC at their April 25th hearing. The Vegas line is 2-1 that if George travels to Sacramento to appear at the hearing in person on his way back he’ll stop at Thunder Valley; it’s 6-5 that he stops on the way up. In other FPPC news, we’re still waiting on the outcome of that watchdog’s investigation of Chuck Reed and his IE for Rose Herrera.
SJ Inside reports that Constant has gotta get him some Micky D’s. Calling neighborhood leaders “bullies” and “do-gooders” for caring about traffic safety is sure to be repeated when Constant runs, or shall we say, waddles for mayor in 2014.
NBC reports that the California Public Utilities Commission sucks at its job. The sighs of relief at 200 E. Santa Clara and 70 West Heading over finally not being in the Unit’s bull’s-eye could be heard all the way at our intern’s retreat at Casa de Fruta. Why Casa de Fruta you ask? Because. We. Can.
Tags: bill sherry, boston marathon, caltrans, casa de fruta, Chuck Reed, cpuc, fppc, george shirakawa, google, merc, nbc, Oliverio, pete constant, rose herrera, sam liccardo, sjc
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
In an interview with NBC Bay Area, DA Jeff Rosen channeled his best Col. Nathan R. Jessup from A Few Good Men and ordered the “Code Red” or rather timesheet alterations to drop some extra money on his top staffers. At the 43 second mark Jessup, err umm, Rosen orders the “Code Red.”
NBC also aired this report last night about Rosen’s admin leave discretion being cut off and a “gift of public funds”.
The Merc’s Tracey Kaplan reports that County Executive Jeff Smith ordered an “immediate cap on the amount of extra time off District Attorney Jeff Rosen can give his supervising lawyers, saying the number of hours he gave them in the past two years to make up for a pay cut appears “irregular and excessive.”
The Merc Ed Board chimes in too, calling for a “thorough public investigation.” They also decided to print a letter to the editor that postulates that the “DA must think we’re all idiots.” And in an unconfirmed report, Rosen’s mouthpiece Sean Webby was seen freebasing Tums in the basement of 70 West Hedding Street.
Over at SJ Inside Josh Koehn is still beating the Shirakawa horse and mourning over FINALLY being scooped by the Merc and NBC.
Google is about to buy an airport, well…a hanger at San Jose Mineta “International” Airport…stop snickering there’s still is a direct flight to Mexico—and (apparently) Japan will be back in June. Today, the San Jose City Council is poised to give it’s blessing on a deal, which will allow the company that manages jets owned by Larry and Sergey to build a new hanger.
In case you weren’t paying attention last night, Louisville beat Michigan.
Tags: george shirakawa, google, jeff rosen, jeff smith, merc, nbc bay area, san jose inside, san jose mineta international airport
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