{"id":27,"date":"2014-03-05T18:36:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:47:50","slug":"2014-san-jose-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"2014 San Jose Mayoral Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt from San Jose Mercury News, Internal Affairs, March 2, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Poll numbers released in election for San Jose mayor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That wasn&#8217;t last week&#8217;s only polling news. Another survey, by EMC Research, paid for by public employee unions that back San Jose mayoral candidate Dave Cortese, a Santa Clara County supervisor, found that &#8212; wouldn&#8217;t you know &#8212; Cortese is ahead! Given the source, you have to take the results with a mound of salt. But for what it&#8217;s worth, they showed 19 percent for Cortese, 15 percent for San Jose Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen, 10 percent for San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo, 8 percent for San Jose Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio, 6 percent for San Jose Councilwoman Rose Herrera and 3 percent for Pat Waite, a conservative who hasn&#8217;t declared plans to run. The margin of error was 4.9 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 39 percent were undecided, showing lots of folks just haven&#8217;t paid attention yet. That&#8217;s a lot of eligible voters for the candidates to court as they head toward the June 3 primary, when the top two candidates are expected to advance to the November election. The current mayor, Chuck Reed, is termed out at the end of this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>San Jose mayoral candidates&#8217; forum, March 5 at 8:20 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A forum for San Jose mayoral candidates Wednesday morning during the Silicon Valley Leadership Group&#8217;s CEO Business Climate Summit will be live streamed at mercurynews.com\/opinion starting at 8:20 a.m. Mercury News Editorial Page Editor Barbara Marshman will moderate the discussion of regional issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcove.me\/niksl303\">San Jose Mayoral Candidate Forum Hosted by Silicon Valley Leadership Group<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from San Jose Mercury News, Internal Affairs, March 2, 2014 &#8220;Poll numbers released in election for San Jose mayor That wasn&#8217;t last week&#8217;s only polling news. Another survey, by EMC Research, paid for by public employee unions that back San Jose mayoral candidate Dave Cortese, a Santa Clara County supervisor, found that &#8212; wouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,21],"tags":[2,3,5,4,8,6,9,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothytom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}