By Robert Haugh
Late yesterday, the Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury released a scathing report.
According to the Grand Jury: “the City Council Voting Bloc has acted like no other governing body in County history by violating ethical standards, the City charter, and normal rules of adult behavior.”
They asked District Attorney Jeff Rosen to indict Councilmembers Anthony Becker, Raj Chahal, Suds Jain, Karen Hardy and Kevin Park. Wow.
This is the second critical report the Grand Jury has issued about the Santa Clara City Council.
Last October, the Grand Jury published a report entitled “Unsportsmanlike Conduct.”
That report concluded that Becker, Chahal, Jain, Hardy and Park (aka “The 49er Five”) are selling out Santa Clara to help the 49ers.
The team has spent $1 million for each of the five Councilmembers to help get them elected since 2020. They spent an additional $2 million to support Becker for Mayor last year, but he was defeated by Mayor Lisa Gillmor.
The latest Grand Jury report was released late on Friday for a reason.
According to a source on the Grand Jury, they were concerned about what happened last time when their October report was online days before it was officially released.
“We learned our lesson and released it after happy hour,” said the juror. “We didn’t want someone (cough, Anthony Becker) to leak it to his friends (cough, Erika Towne: cough, Carolyn Schuk) at a biased publication (cough, Silicon Valley Voice).”
When asked for comment, Becker emailed a response before realizing that he sent it to Santa Clara News Online from Schuk’s personal email account. Whoops.
Park issued a statement saying that he doesn’t need to read Grand Jury reports.
Instead, Park suggested that the jurors read a book that he really likes and has shared at City Council meetings recently. It’s called “All My Friends are Dead” and he bought a handful of them for the Grand Jury.
“I know the title may seem somewhat harsh, so I’ve gone to the trouble of taking Post-It notes and covered the word ‘dead’ with the words ‘grand jurors,” said Park. “Ha. Ha. I’m clever and really funny don’t you think.”
But Jain, who chairs the Council’s Governance and Ethics Committee, said he takes the report seriously and will treat it the same as the last Grand Jury report.
“We will ignore … I mean explore … the Grand Jury recommendations with the same hilarity … I mean sincerity … that we gave the October report,” said Jain.
Hardy and Chahal could not be reached for comment because they were attending a concert at Levi’s Stadium as part of another “operations tour.”
They claim that their cell phones could not get reception inside Jed York’s luxury box while champagne was being served.
A spokesman for District Attorney Rosen says Rosen is reviewing the Grand Jury report this weekend and will issue a statement next week.
“Rosen believes in good government,” said spokesman Justin Sane.
“And the Grand Jury has clearly made a case that the City Council Voting Bloc is violating laws and are really foolish.
“We expect this type of behavior on April 1. But it happens in Santa Clara every day? Wow.”
[…] BREAKING NEWS: Grand Jury Asks District Attorney Jeff Rosen to Indict Santa Clara City Councilmember… […]
Jeff Rosen is a vindictive person. His priorities have nothing to do with protecting the public.
I told DA Rosen about the sexual abuse of my kids. I was sure that he would do something to protect my kids. Instead, he filed charges against me. He threw my youngest daughter under the bus in the process. Said daughter is under the legal custody of a man who previously drugged and raped a teen. Mr. Rosen had all the evidence but still helped to force my little girl to be under the legal custody of the rapist. Even the mother objected and didn’t want this.
All that mattered to Rosen was helping his friend. He is a completely callous man. Rosen even let his attorney friend to assault me while the fake criminal proceedings against me were on going.
Does anyone think that this is the first and only time that this has happened? Think again. Daya Baran found out that his daughter was being sexually abused by an in-law. He tried to report. He was then arrested and prosecuted by Rosen. When he continued to try to protect his child, he was POISONED.
Read for yourself:
https://freearianna.org/story
I have also posted details of what happened to me and my kids here: https://copblaster.com/blast/59205/district-attorney-jeff-rosen-is-a-terrible-person
Please don’t vote for Rosen. Don’t be fooled by the false promises that he makes to our community. You never know when you might need the assistance of the top law enforcement officer.
Please sign my petition. The District Attorney’s Office is helping sex traffic my children. This is important because it can happen to anyone.
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/272/404/301/
It has been called for since october 11
There goes the last shred of respect I hd for the Grand Jury system.
You obviously don’t believe in democracy and don’t know a grand joke when you read it.
Although this may be an April Fool’s joke, the fact that many people seem to think it’s real suggests something. I would lose my respect for the Grand Jury if they didn’t follow up with more investigations, reports, and yes even indictments. Santa Clara is the next City of Bell. That was the conclusion of an ethics expert in the Mercury News. Sometimes reality is more ridiculous than farce.
Wishful Thinking…. wait can I say wishful thinking? Did I offend anyone? Do I need to apologize to anyone? Is this a Death Threat? Were the Police Notified that I wishful thoughts.
Oh to be a Santa Clara resident that actually signs their real name…
Burt Field
burt.field@gmail.com
408.687.2622 cell phone text first if new contact
Aprils Fools Joke?
Surely you know DA spokesperson Justin Sane never jokes. And don’t call me Shirley.
Speaking of April Fools: “Moscow in flames, missiles headed for New York, film at eleven.’
Name movie. Hint: Same producers as in ‘Airplane!’