Robertonegro,

First of all, you don’t make any sense.

Second of all, what does anything you have said have anything to do with Omar?

The MACSA scandal doesn’t belong at Blanca Alvarado’s feet it belongs solely at Councilman Xavier Campos incompetence.  He “escaped” MACSA as the DA began investigating to be shielded by none other than Gluttonous George Shirakawa who made him a policy aide while he propped him up to shove down the throats of D5 in the city council election. 

You’re obviously a troll for the now disgraced Shirakawa, Chavez, Campos, Coto & Eddie Garcia failing power group. They couldn’t win an election now if they ran against Hitler.  Most of them get power by manipulation and appointment.  Glad they’re all out of office except the Campos’ and they will be next.  Los dos!

Just some more news on who may be gearing up to run. After talking with some connected Dem & Repubs this week the word is Joe Coto and a bi-lingual candidate from District 4 who has already been courting East Side residents, are ramping up for the battle royale.

Good point about the water district!  And even after the attempted meddling by the SJ Merc News in one water district race, the voters made a good choice (Barbara Keegan.)

Omar,
Jose is NOT going to run, nor is he even considering it. Richard Hobbs is not a viable candidate for D2. I’ll just leave it at that.

I’m saddened to hear you aren’t interested because that will leave the citizens of D2 with the same old, same old, and they deserve better.

I get the feeling that those that would prefer the Supervisors make an appointment seem to believe that they’d make a better choice than the voters of District 2.

Any contest, political or otherwise, has structural or other issues that favor certain contestants over others.  That’s just the way it is.  Regardless, it’s still better to have the contest than to have someone make the determination.

There were 2 surprises in the water district races in November.  Sometimes voters are smarter than people give them credit for.

Why would anyone be ashamed of an office-holder who left the high moral ground for the more jovial pastures of abuse of power?  We in the diverse white American community have seen plenty of office-holders from our ranks engage in corrupt activity.  It’s the way of the world for a certain part of one’s own demographic affinity group to go astray.  Deal with it and move on.  No one is judging all members of Shirakawa’s demographic affinity group by his conduct.

You also say, “Every single elected minority politician in Santa Clara County and beyond must recognize that if you are an elected official, your job is to move our communities forward.” 

Why would you want only certain candidates to play by the rules?  Shouldn’t they all play by the rules to the benefit of all residents?

And the word “minority” is problematic.  The diverse Asian Americans and the diverse Hispanic Americans already each amount to larger shares that the diverse white Americans in San Jose, and taken together they are a very large majority.  And besides that, “minority” is no longer PC in the higher reaches of thought management in the USA.

You mention former city council member Gregory along with former county supervisor Shirakawa as wrong-doers.  You would do better by asking how the prosecutorial establishment of Santa Clara County is able to limit prosecutions to just one person per case.  It takes two to tango as well as to bribe and set up vague rules. 

Haven’t you noticed that the other parties to both scandals have never been brought to justice?  The bribery alleged in the Gregory case obviously required a person offering the bribe. And who knows how many others enlisted Gregory’s services.

And the cluster of persons surrounding Shirakawa who are seemingly exempt from prosecution include those who conspired with him to commit the acts he did, those who modified the county rules in 2003 to allow such weak oversight, all those lobbyists who enabled him to do what he did, and all his fund-raisers. 

Enlarge your thinking just a little to take in the entire picture, and ask, “How do you abuse power without a lot of enablers, lobbyists, fund-raisers, and hangers-on?” 

And then ask, “How do the city and county stage-manage these prosecutions to shelter the other guilty ones and keep the focus on just one defendant?”  It’s a toughie.