Comments on: Liccardo Selects Senior Staff, Dueñas Named City Manager https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/ A look inside San Jose politics and culture Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:49:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.12 By: guest https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1545341 Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:49:43 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1545341 http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/government-and-politics/20141023/scotts-valley-mayor-in-mortgage-default

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By: observation https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1545151 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 04:55:13 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1545151 Pete Constant left the SJPD supposedly for a permanent work injury. He collects a tax free pension, yet continues to go back time and time again for the very same employer, double and now triple dipping. Big Pete can apparently still work. The city could and should create a special classification for him to do some job at the police department, rather than as a public safety police advisor to the Mayor. If he has so much public safety experience, his vast knowledge is needed at the depleted police department, the department he helped decimate.

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By: observation https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1545141 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 04:18:03 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1545141 Liccardo couldn’t find somebody for his Chief of Staff that actually lives in San Jose?

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By: Meyer Weed https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1544741 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 23:40:37 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1544741 In reply to retired.

Hey Josh didn’t screw this up…he just “cut n’pasted” what Sam’s office said he could…

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By: JSL https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1544711 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:56:50 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1544711 Anybody able to sell Nokia’s must be extremely persuasive.

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By: retired https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1544701 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:32:11 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1544701 Staff Biographies

Pete Constant – Senior Policy Advisor

If that is not the biggest joke of all. Sam is an idiot and here we go again in round 2. Pete is a fraud but I guess the old back room hand shake still works. But then crooks seem to stay together. Come on Josh, really?

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By: Nate Jaeger (@natejaegersings) https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1544691 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 13:34:09 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1544691 A COURSE IN CREATIVE WRITING !

TRANSLATION OF THE BELOW: Sharon went to High School, took online College Courses and received several BA, BS, Master’s Degrees and MBA’s over a six month period. She works with several other employees wrapping and shipping Nate Jaeger’s CDs to fans. She sends out emails to fans and keeps a daily list of sales and emails them to Nate Jaeger’s office in Zurich which makes her an International player. Sharon is twenty years old and engaged to an auto mechanic at Sears.

SHARON STASSEY

As Chief Marketing Officer, Sharon leads marketing for all channels – dealer, manufacturer, major accounts and consumer accounts. Ultimately, she is responsible for developing and executing marketing strategy to drive online advertising sales to Music product manufacturers and local dealers. Bringing a new focus to integration, insights and digital media, Sharon’s leadership has yielded an eight point jump in Crystal Records brand awareness, as well as the launch of a fully-integrated, 360-degree marketing campaign, “ALL Music. No drama.,” that produced a considerable rise in traffic and audience acquisition. Driving the company’s industry-leader status, Sharon’s team conducts extensive research on digital and musical trends, from shopper behavior to social outreach. Armed with these insights, Crystal Records consults with dealers and promoters, shaping new products to solve evolving customer problems and helping position advertisers for greater growth.

Prior to Crystal Records, Sharon was the Director, Marketing Communications & Brand, with Sam’s Record Shop. In Linda’s role at Sam’s, she was responsible for managing the brand for the Music business in the U.S. in addition to strategic development and execution of marketing communication strategies both through the consumer channels and the Sam’s Vintage Record Shop distributor network. Sharon led the marketing communication and public relations strategy for the Sam’s business in response to the U.S Music crisis, developing the messaging platform of “Locally owned and locally operated” whereby local distributors were able to educate the public on their locally owned status in the wake of the situation.

Earlier in her career, Sharon led a series of marketing and brand initiatives in both the Sam’s Vintage Record Co. and channels in global Music businesses such as Rauls Record Shop and Jake’s Recording Studio. Sharon began her career with the Greater Los Angeles Flea Market focusing on Public Affairs and negotiating new franchise agreements for a start-up business.

Sharon’s specialty is integrated brand management and driving 360-degree marketing planning and delivery. With experience in managing complex distribution channels, multiple audiences and emerging trends and technologies, Sharon works to bring brands to life through a multi-faceted, seamless marketing approach that builds brand strength and consistency.

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By: David S. Wall https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1544651 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:57:28 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1544651 Of all Mayor-elect Liccardo’s appointments made so far, I am pleased to see the retention of Ms. McGurk. She has always added a unique and unsurpassed entertainment value to city hall.

Metaphorically, she dresses in black, sporting a wide-brimmed-pointed, floppy hat. During the previous administration, her congenital scowl complimented her performance as she routinely straddled a broomstick and hopped about city hall; inexhaustibly interpreting Mayor Reed’s “Green Visions” to any audience who would listen, as if she was straight out of the Book of Daniel.

But, public safety and city services are in shambles. Police Officers and Fire Fighters will and are leaving faster than the city is able to replace them. Department Directors, Assistant Directors and many other highly talented and skilled city employees across the spectrum of city services are also part of the mass exodus.

Thus, the mantra of a “Safer city-Smarter government” will need a well accomplished broomstick-hopping prophet to keep the manure flowing freely downhill from the 18th floor. And that is why Ms. McGurk is still with us.

Entertainment? The antics of the elected folken at city hall are always entertainment. It doesn’t matter much witch supercilious person the Mayor-elect chooses to pontificate his message. It is just a variation of Kabuki theatre to me.

David S. Wall

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By: sjoutsidethebubble https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/liccardo-selects-senior-staff-duenas-named-city-manager/#comment-1544631 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:19:22 +0000 http://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201058291#comment-1544631 Strap on your seat belts.

Good government wonkism on steroids comin’ attcha!

We’re going to make you a better, more public spirited member of the community if it kills you.

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