The second is they think it would be “neat” to run for office, with no idea of what is involved. Their first shock is the requirement to deposit a couple thousand dollars for a statement of qualifications. My view is that candidates who do not file a statement have no chance. FUSD doesn’t charge for the statement and bears the cost, so while Vladimir Rodriguez does not have a statement in the sample ballot, Diana does. In that case, Diana’s entry into the election against two incumbents, with little chance of winning, cost the school district more than $100,000 because, if no one challenged the incumbents, the election would have been cancelled. I’m not saying people shouldn’t run, but they should be willing to do the work, to raise the money, to wage a campaign. Simply putting your name on the ballot doean’t cut it.

The third reason people run, more toward your conspiracy theory, has actually happened in the long ago past here. Every election, there would be a bunch of people run who couldn’t win, but one candidate would align himself with most of them, looking for their second votes. It was effective and the orchestrator got elected frequently.

If you look at the chronology of elections on the city clerk’s page of the city’s web site, you can see historically how the minor candidates have influenced the election results and you will find the answer is not very much.

Folks who come out of nowhere near the end of the race, with no discernible background or platform, who put little or no effort into campaigning, can reasonably be suspected of having been recruited by wealthy, powerful special interests who have no real intention of actually putting these people in office; they’re just on the ballot to split the vote, particularly the under-informed vote, and peel off support from stronger, more viable candidates.

Can you say Alvin Greene?

And despite their assertions otherwise, when voted on by residents of Fremont, their measure was defeated 2 to 1. Those are the facts.

What is more concerning is that a prominent candidate for city council is either so gullible to present an internal poll by an agenda-driven advocacy group as facts. Or is Vinnie just straight out lying?

And, Dan. The pulse you may think you have on my identity/career is even more erroneous than your fictitious poll result.

Anu, Harrison and the rest of the incumbants continue to spend $100′s of thousands of redevelopment dollars on a Centerville project that has produced no practical benefit for Fremont taxpayers.

We head off on various boondoggle “visits” to China and India to “develope” business (BTW – where is THAT business – what was the result of those expenditures ?), and ratchet UP our salaries . . . . and all the while, we continue to cry “broke” while we scale back services to taxpayers.

Wait, wait – MAYBE there’s another tax suprlus hiding in the wings someplace – whatdya think ??

Other cities are pursuing and attracting the kind of corporate residents necessary to add to community and fill empty commercial space and, ultimately, build a tax base for the long-term. Fremont is busy moaning and groaning about a stadium that coulda been.

Whether you are pro aggressive development or think a more tempered approach is prudent is just one of many considerations voters need to examine. . . . the MAJOR question is whether or not current incumbants (or the many divisive shills that represent the very same allegiance) HAVE SPENT (or WILL SPEND) your hard-earned dollars with the kind of critical scrutiny so deserving in such a difficult economy. . . .

As you look around your city, more importantly, as you observe your council meetings and the various policies and actions they have initiated, if you are satisfied with what you observe, you can vote for any of those names that remain less than critical of our current direction.

Come November, there will be a lengthy list of names on your ballot for City Council, most of whom you can rely upon to do more of the same.

Only two of those names have aggressively and convincingly argued for prudent change.

Choose carefully.

http://www.ibabuzz.com/tricitybeat/2010/09/02/ishan-shah-news/#comment-14073

Again your statement is misleading on the Coyote Hill poll.

Let me restate my previous post – please read it slowly…

This is obviously not for you but for those that are not actively trying to promote churches on this place (if you are indeed Dominic Dutra)

In January 21st-23rd, 2006, David Binder Research conducted a survey. Here are some of the findings:
72% of Fremont voters want to maintain a permanent buffer around the Coyote Hills Regional Park and limit development of the area as a whole.
79% of Fremonters wanted to stop the Patterson Ranch development entirely or limit development in front of the Hills in exchange for development away from the Park.
These results are almost identical to a survey conducted in 2002 in which over 70% of Fremont voters want to limit development of the Ardenwood Ranch site near the Coyote Hills.

One of the Bay’s last pre-European habitats runs through the ranch and park, according to a 1999 study sponsored by the US EPA and the regional water quality board. “The diked wetlands east of Coyote Hills support the largest remaining willow groves in the baylands ecosystem,” said the Baylands Ecosystem Habitat report. To all of those interested, the churches are planned WEST of Ardenwood.
As I measure it on Google Earth, it appears to be .15 miles (or 782 feet) from the edge of the Willow Grove.

Dominic/Marty: Anonymity evidently breeds bravery….when you come clean on who you really are, I will continue this debate.
Until then, I look forward to the next steps because I, and many like me, are going to fight this until there is NO development West of Ardenwood.

Have fun – I love reading your stuff and will be sad when the real estate market picks up and you won’t have the time to write as much.

Trish gives the impression that she is the political God mother of her boss and ditched and destroyed his political career as the people were distancing from her. She is now serving as the Vice Chair of United Democratic Committee, 4949 Stevenson Blvd to work for all candidates from Governor to various offices in Alameda County. May God bless these politicians from the political curse.

It is better that all the candidates running for City Council declare that they are not the employees or agents of the developers, corporations, nor they want to make profit from the office to maintain transparency and integrity of the office and people’s trust.

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