Comments on: Alamedans Get Political Survey Calls From ???

By: John W. Vile

John W. Vile — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:03:18 +0000

That relationship question sounds like what is going on in Hayward where you have an ex-city manager that has been assigned to the HUSD school board and his wife is the HR Director for the HUSD. Talking about conflict of interest. And, to make things more interesting his business is on land development! Where do all these questionable activities end with politicians.

By: Daniel G.

Daniel G. — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:38:04 +0000

If it’s not Ron Cowan, who else has the money for this?

By: jlevaux

jlevaux — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:46:22 +0000

Also, there was at least one question in the survey about the relationship between developers and politicians and how that would influence my voting.

By: jlevaux

jlevaux — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:42:48 +0000

I do not recall being asked anything about the golf course during the survey. So I couldn’t (and won’t) assume anything with respect to Ron Cowan’s involvement with the phone survey.

By: John W. Vile

John W. Vile — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:16:43 +0000

I wonder how often they called people those days.

By: mobi Johansen

mobi Johansen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:52:25 +0000

Rumor has it that Ron Cowan paid for the poll and it was in support of his political effort to elect Beverly Johnson so he can get support for closing the golf course.

By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:17:18 +0000

I’ve stopped answering those phone “surveys” because, as you point out, it’s almost impossible to get the folks on the line to tell you 1) Who is sponsoring the survey 2) How to see the results 3) How the results will be used. I don’t get the sense it’s worth my time and I think the results can be easily manipulated to fit the needs of a specific individual, company or organization.

By: Adam Gillitt

Adam Gillitt — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:34:20 +0000

This candidate for City Council would like to know more about this survey as well! I wonder how accurate the information about each campaign was presented, and how each candidate was framed?

According to campaign finance records (http://docs.ci.alameda.ca.us/weblink8/browse.aspx?startid=81737&&&&dbid=0) there aren’t many candidates in Alameda who could have financed this with their own campaign money…