San Jose Inside

The statewide debate was more rough-and-tumble than last Wednesday’s event in San Francisco, but again, no governor candidate broke away from the scrum, and the playing field just got muddier.

The first major poll since last Wednesday’s Inside California Politics governor’s debate released today showed the April 22 debate had little impact on the public’s assessment of the top candidates.

One cybersecurity firm reported that an Islamic cyber attack group claimed responsibility for the massive eBay outages that began at noon Sunday and continued into Monday evening. San Jose-based eBay described the outages as ‘intermittent technical issues.’

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan – still polling in single digits – has approximately $8.9 million on hand to spend in the gubernatorial primary campaign's home stretch, more than double any other candidate.

Scorecards for the two Republican and four Democratic candidates each showed a few strikes, some hits, but no home runs.

On April 22, the county revealed that 10 county social workers had been placed on paid administrative leave on April 8. On April 21, local NAACP officials filed a formal civil rights complaint against the county, one day after District Attorney Jeff Rosen said he had charged a San Jose teenager with murdering his two-year-old cousin, identified as Baby Jaxon.

The Emerson College poll released last week, based on April 14-15 interviews, showed the biggest boost for Xavier Becerra, in contrast to the Mahan-sponsored poll released this week, based on April 8-12 interviews.

Sunnyvale police said Brian Burke drove drunk the wrong way down a Sunnyvale highway earlier this month and killed a 52-year-old Mountain View woman on her way home from work.

The San Jose Congressman said that in late March investors sold over $500 million in oil futures, while simultaneously, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 E-mini Futures were bought minutes before the President announced a delay in attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure.

Take a walk through the neighborhoods of East San Jose, Berryessa or Milpitas, and you’ll discover a city that looks different from the profile featured in tech magazines.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan didn’t get the immediate boost his campaign had hoped for in Rep. Eric Swallwell’s withdrawal as a candidate and a member of Congress, but the mayor did qualify for the stage at a critical statewide debate April 22.

The 32-year-old suspect was arrested Sunday without incident after barricading himself in a home, where he had threatened the resident with a machete.

The Santa Clara County legend is best known for spearheading the first half-cent sales tax and VTA light rail.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan both oppose a 5% one-time tax on the state’s 200-plus billionaires, a proposed ballot initiative that is supported by all other Democratic gubernatorial candidates.

Supporters of Matt Mahan see a rare opportunity in Eric Swalwell’s demise, as one independent campaign committee supporting the San Jose mayor pulled in $12 million in new and previously committed contributions from wealthy donors since Friday.