Our goal at Stand Up for Santa Clara is for our community to be managed by an honest, transparent, trustworthy city government, not an NFL franchise. We plan to support candidates who share our goals.
This week we asked all the candidates to fill out our questionnaire and return it to us by Monday, August 27, 2018, 6pm. We will post the responses online. If any candidates choose not to respond, we will share that information with our community and voters.
Here is the list of candidates running for office in the November 2018 Election:
- Santa Clara City Clerk Candidates: Robert O’Keefe, Hosam Haggag, Roseann LaCoursiere, Christopher Stampolis | Click to read ballot statements
- Santa Clara Mayor Candidates: Anthony Becker and Mayor Lisa Gillmor | Click to read ballot statements
- Santa Clara City Council District 2 Candidates: Mario Bouza, Nancy Biagini, Raj Chahal | Click to read candidate statements
- Santa Clara City Council District 3 Candidates: Karen Hardy, Sam Kumar | Click to read ballot statements
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Here is our Questionnaire:
Candidate
Name
Occupation
Employer
Stadium Issues
- The 49ers want to change the weekday curfew that ends concerts at 10 p.m. to help residents who need to get to bed at a reasonable time to go to school or work the next day. The weekend curfew is 11 p.m. The team says they, as the stadium manager, and the city will make more money by changing the curfew. The residents say just because a concert ends at 10 p.m. doesn’t mean it’s quiet that early since it takes a couple hours for crowds to clear out. Would you vote to uphold or change the weekday curfew?
- Residential neighborhoods near the stadium and the 49er training facility have complained about the increase in noise from the 49ers practices when loud music and crowd noises are used to simulate games. Do you believe the City should enforce the noise ordinance and fine the 49ers for violations?
Clean Campaigns
- The 49ers have supported city council candidates in the past with direct contributions. In addition, the team supports candidates indirectly through third parties and “independent expenditures.” Will you accept direct contributions from the team, the 49er leadership or staff, or affiliated consultants and vendors?
- Will you publicly ask the 49ers to refrain from assisting you through indirect contributions or independent expenditures?
- In 2016, a “dark money” organization (a political committee that would not disclose its donors) called BluPac spent heavily to support and attack council candidates. BluPAC had direct ties to the 49ers. The team would not say if they funded the efforts. If BluPAC or another “dark money” organization supports your candidacy, will you disavow their help and ask them to stop spending money to support you or attack your opponents?
- Have you done work, directly or indirectly, or received gifts or compensation from entities who do business with the city: developers, contractors, vendors, or the 49ers?
- Some political consultants use aggressive tactics and threats to force candidates to hire them and sometimes pay them undisclosed amounts of cash, which is illegal. Will you refrain from directly hiring or indirectly hiring consultants who have a known history of engaging in illegal or unethical behavior?
