49ers Attempt to Influence Santa Clara Elections May Have Violated Dark Money Ordinance

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 […]

Stop the 49ers’ Dark Money Campaign Spending in Santa Clara Elections

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 […]

Political Attack Misses Target

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 […]

From Political Dark Money to Judicial Dark Money

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 […]

Santa Clara Chamber Makes Illegal $1,000 Contribution to Becker Campaign

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. […]

2018 Candidates Respond to Our Campaign Questionnaire

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 […]

Santa Clara Candidate 2018 Questionnaire Challenge

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 […]

Vote Yes for Measure A and Stand Up for Santa Clara

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 […]

Santa Clara Councilman Dominic Caserta Resigns

Santa Clara City Council Member Dominic Caserta resigned from the city council on Tuesday, May 15th and ended his election run for Santa Clara County Supervisor seat after 9 people filed police reports pertaining to allegations of sexual misconduct.  Mr. Caserta has also been disciplined multiple times over the years for sexually harassing students by the Santa Clara Unified School District. […]

Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gilmor Asks Caserta to Resign After 9 Sexual Harassment Complaints Filed with Police

Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gilmor is leading the city council with swift and decisive action to officially admonish City Council Member Dominic Caserta and start the process to censure him and ask for his resignation at tomorrow’s council meeting. Nine police reports have now been filed against Mr. Caserta about potential sexual abuse and improper behavior.  […]