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The first and primary commandment required by and applied to any elected leader is: “Do no harm.” Sounds good, looks good and makes good sense. When evaluating the actions and events of an elected leader, applying this axiom is a great indicator of their success or, in some cases, failure. It doesn’t matter if the … Read more
Stupid is simply the absence of common sense. Most readers of this column have encountered both. Santa Clara has witnessed six years of Mayor Gillmor’s leadership and she has won the trophy for one of these two options. It isn’t common sense. Her hiring practices ranked near the top when it came to salaries and … Read more
What could be better than business that is back in business? Santa Clara’s energized City Council has approved a return to the partnership that Mayor Lisa Gillmor had shelved. The current Council has resurrected and restored the 49er/Santa Clara partnership. It is exciting to know the lights will be on again at Levi’s Stadium with … Read more
Peeling back the curtain on nefarious activities and actions by Mayor Lisa Gillmor and her hired comrades has revealed crazy, compliant, perhaps even criminal cronyism. Former City Attorney Brian Doyle, who was hired by Gillmor to provide legal counsel, proved to be both incompetent and a partisan, and one not well disguised. His advice was … Read more
Just announced! The San Francisco 49ers will play the 2022 season with NO rules. Referees will be on the field, however, they will only drink coffee and blow their whistles when time has expired. Of course, this is an April Fools pronouncement. But just imagine if this were true. It would not only change the … Read more
Exchanging “shoot from the hip hypocrisy and hype” for hope, Santa Clara’s City Council is bringing sanity to Santa Clara. Taking careful aim, it was still a shot heard ’round the City and the entire Bay Area community when Santa Clara City Manager Deanna Santana was terminated. This action was not solely due to Santana’s … Read more
How do you run a city without a city manager or even a city attorney? Based on observation, for the moment, the new Santa Clara Council is doing well; making decisions, picking replacements and rebuilding personnel. The departure of City Attorney Brian Doyle, his bad legal advice and spurious legal decisions have yielded a short-term … Read more
The weather in Santa Clara has a different outlook these days. The catastrophic cumulous clouds of doom and gloom hovering over the city have begun to shift. This is not by chance. It is due to the dedicated energy inspired by the winds of wisdom and hard work blowing away the clouds of despair. Sensible, … Read more
Certainly you cannot ignore the calamity, devastation, and destruction forced upon the world by a mentally deranged dictator. While the world has been awakened to the traumatic fear of what we did not want, it has again rung the alarm bells of reality by having a loose screw making insane decisions. This is not a … Read more
Reality as opposed to perception is most often a Grand Canyon of disparity. This is true with politics in Santa Clara. The new era members of the Santa Clara City Council have reviewed the issues, past personnel appointments, outrageous salary awards, costly and horrendous legal decisions. These previous actions endorsed by Mayor Lisa Gillmor and … Read more