A Cupertino incumbent is dropping out of the City Council race to focus on her health, leaving an open seat in November. Councilmember Hung Wei suspended her campaign Tuesday to prioritize her health after battling stage four lung cancer since June. She will finish her term through December before leaving Cupertino politics for the time...
Election 2024: Madison Nguyen could make history again in D2 county race
Madison Nguyen, wearing black athletic pants and tennis shoes, walks with her 12-year-old daughter Olivia Tran in scorching 93-degree heat, canvassing an East San Jose neighborhood across from Story Road. They coordinate reading out house numbers, before her daughter jogs down the street to convince residents to vote for her mom as the next Santa...
Election 2024: Betty Duong in tight race for D2 county supervisor
Betty Duong knocks on the door of an East San Jose porch wearing a big floppy sun hat and white sneakers. She chats with the man who opens the door in Vietnamese about her run for the District 2 seat on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors when suddenly the man’s wife sees her and exclaims...
San Jose mayor pulls endorsement of cop running for City Council
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has withdrawn his endorsement of Tam Truong, a City Council candidate and police officer who’s still running for office after county prosecutors charged him with grand theft related to mortgage fraud allegations. District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s office last week filed a one-count criminal complaint charging Truong with grand theft of...
UPDATE: San Jose cop running for office to stay in race despite admin leave
A San Jose police sergeant and City Council candidate, Tam Truong, has been placed on administrative leave amid allegations of mortgage fraud. He said he plans to continue his campaign for elected office. Truong, who’s worked in law enforcement for two decades and is running against incumbent Domingo Candelas for the District 8 San Jose...
San Jose leaders push Proposition 36 as critics fight back
A coalition of elected officials that Gov. Gavin Newsom dismissed as “just a couple mayors,” is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort to reverse lenient rules on retail and drug crimes. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan announced the “Yes on 36” ballot measure committee with Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen and Sacramento...
Meet the candidates running for Santa Clara City Council
Santa Clara voters in November will weigh whether to replace half their elected officials and decide who should win a highly-competitive open seat. Voters will also be asked to cough up money to fix the city’s crumbling roads and buildings. The Santa Clara City Council has four seats up for election in Districts 1, 4,...
San Jose candidate worked for controversial Chinese developer
A leading San Jose City Council candidate worked under a Chinese billionaire arrested on bribery and corruption charges — mainly helping the embattled CEO’s company sell off land from his failed developments in the Bay Area. San Jose Planning Commissioner George Casey, who’s locked in a heated race to replace District 10 Councilmember Arjun Batra,...
San Jose congressional candidate hit with federal complaint
A federal elections complaint against state Assemblymember Evan Low is intensifying Silicon Valley’s hottest congressional race and putting attention on the political role of nonprofits. A complaint filed over the weekend by former Federal Elections Commission Chair Ann Ravel alleges Low, who is running for Congressional District 16, used the email server and contact list...
Santa Clara candidates question ethics behind pledge
An independent ethics pledge is gaining notoriety in Santa Clara’s elections, while some candidates call it a political tool. The pledge — created by Tom Shanks, former Santa Clara ethics advisor and former executive director for the Santa Clara University Markkula Center for Applied Ethics — has been touted as a way to restore public...