The San Francisco 49ers Team owner Jed York has spent an astounding $3 million into the 2020 Santa Clara City Council election. He wants to put Anthony Becker, Harbir Bhatia, Suds Jain and Kevin Park on the City Council. You can track the election spending on the City Clerk’s website. Jed is funding The Citizens for Efficient Government […]
By Robert Haugh from Santa Clara News The City warned residents in January about “dark money” efforts in Santa Clara for the 2020 elections. That’s an expenditure that tries to influence Mission City voters but the funder tries to do it anonymously. That’s a big no-no. Now, it looks like that January warning may have […]
This month, the City of Santa Clara uncovered a possible “dark money” scheme by the San Francisco 49ers. The team is spending over $300,000 to buy a Santa Clara city election — and they tried to do it anonymously. They hid the money until the City Clerk caught them. They’re opposing Measure C because they […]
Here’s an update on Wednesday’s Dark Money political attack on Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor by McManis Faulkner, Brian Exline SCU Law Student @bxline18, Patricia Mahan. Santa Clarans saw through your BS, and are smart enough to see this was simply a nasty politically charged hit on Mayor Gillmor just like the BluPac attacks on […]
Yesterday, a law firm with connections to the 49ers filed a frivolous lawsuit against Mayor Lisa Gillmor about how she files her economic interest forms. Months ago, the firm was told by the District Attorney that there was no merit to their complaint. Here’s what Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen wrote: “The Public […]
By Robert Haugh, Santa Clara News We’re not following the Mayor’s race closely. Sorry, but we just don’t think it’ll be a close race. Mayor Lisa Gillmor will cruise to victory. She’s done some great things to turn Santa Clara around. Mission City voters will reward her for it. Her campaign doesn’t need much help. […]
Last month we asked all the 2018 Santa Clara election candidates to fill out our questionnaire and return it to us by August 27, 2018. Here are their responses: 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 […]
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 […]
Santa Clarans – Please Get out and Vote “YES” for Measure A on June 5th! Sit down with Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor and Santa Clara Charter Review Committee Member Hosam Haggag to learn the truth about Measure A. Did you know that: Measure A was created by Santa Clarans for Santa Clarans by our very diverse Charter Review […]