Both Candidates Deny Using the Energy Drink
As the race for mayor begins its predictable slide into negative campaigning with Election Day drawing near, the proverbial gloves have been aggressively and unceremoniously hurled aside as bitter accusations of Cocaine use have bloodied and maimed the candidates.
“I have never seen candidates stoop so low as to accuse each other of guzzling addictive energy drinks,” said long-time political mastermind Rich Robinson. “Thank God 7-11 pulled the pseudo psycho stimulant.”
The convenience store behemoth decided to suspend sales of the provocatively named Cocaine energy drink after several “beverage houses”—where kids were cutting the drink with soda water for resale to political volunteers—were raided. Both camps claim to have video of their opponents trying to purchase this bubbly black market snow.
But as they say, the best defense is an offense, so political operatives of the Reed and Chavez campaigns were trying to position their clients as the anti-fake-drug energy drink candidate through mailers and press releases.
The Huffington Post political editor Larry Gerston said that although the heavily caffeinated drink appealed mainly to recovering crack addicts, rappers, and Incan Royalty, political campaign volunteers have slowly become a dominating consumer segment.
“This campaign should be about more than energy drinks named for an illegal drug that is loaded with sugar, caffeine and secret, throat-numbing substances marketed to high-school kids,” he said, “and should focus more on negative mailers.”
Both mayoral candidates deny ever drinking Cocaine. “I never swallowed,” Chuck Reed was heard saying as he left City Hall yesterday. And although Cindy Chavez admitted that she drinks a lot of coffee and an occasional Red Bull, she said that “if Cocaine passed the legal litmus test and helped my precinct walkers stay up all night without eating anything, I would give up several hundred independent expenditures to get some of the Peruvian liquid.”
Perhaps Diaz and Chavez will form their own lobbying firm after they both lose. They could call it something like, Desperation Politics, or Foul Smelling Campaigns. Since they are both becoming experts at slimy campaigns they might as well make some money at it. Hopefully, though, they will take their business on the road and far away from San Jose. Let’s hope they take Seaton with them.
Tricky Darren (Sleazy Campaign King ) Seaton strikes again
How convienient for Diaz that Liccardo who has a reputation for putting sex offenders and Internet predators in jail would have some unknown person ( could it be Tricky Darren ) post X-rated links to his MySpace pages
Tricky Darren – should explain – Diaz ‘s frequent misbehavior – drunk driving accident with state SUV, failure to pay child support, worst legislative record of dodging Assemby votes, passing New no voter Bart/VTA tax increase, many eminent domain votes taking home owners and small business propery, donations to his legislative campaign fund while voting to waste millions taxpayers money and lobbying for corporations and developers to waste more taxes
Dear San Jose:
Scott Herhold’s column in Thursday’s Merc spoke to the horrible condition of San Jose’s parks. The lack of maintenance of our city’s parks and streets is the second most underreported story in our city. (The first is, of course, the “whitewashed” alternative sites study that paved the way for the Taj Mahal City Hall).
What’s telling in Herhold’s piece is the mention that there are 30 less park related employees. Yet, in the same issue of the Merc, Mayor Corruptus is quoted as saying that he balanced budgets without layoffs.
I wondered if it would be too much trouble to ask the Mercury News to actually cover this HUGE story! For starters, where did these 30 park employees go? Were they reassigned, or did they take an early retirement? Also, why not ask the interesting question as to why Santa Clara and Cupertino Parks are ten times better than San Jose’s? What are they doing that we’re not, and how can we get there?
Pete Campbell
#2 Right On.
From now on, each time a politician makes a sleazy move in San Jose, they will be refered to as pulling a Manny.
#6. I’m mightily mortified by the many Mannys manifest in our multitude of municipal morons.
Mal
This could have been today’s post on San Jose Inside:
District 3 candidate’s campaigning hits new low
Mercury News Editorial
Manny Diaz may have hit a new low in campaigning. And we didn’t think it was possible.
At a press conference Thursday, the San Jose District 3 council candidate blasted opponent Sam Liccardo for his MySpace Web site, which had links to pornography and other objectionable material.
Liccardo immediately took the volunteer-maintained page down when the links were discovered, but Diaz didn’t want people to miss out. So at the press event—in front of Horace Mann Elementary School, no less—he passed out more than 40 printed pages with images of nude women and girls, gang material, disturbing violence—everything disgusting his people could cull from the site before Liccardo wiped it out.
And if the packets were too bulky, CDs were available.
Most of Diaz’s supporters at his Thursday rant were from outside the district. They implied the Web links were deliberate and said Liccardo ought to quit the race.
Liccardo, a prosecutor, has a sterling reputation for putting sex offenders and Internet predators in jail. He says he made a mistake in not monitoring the site, which is popular with teens, more closely. It’s a caution to parents, he says, since there are a number of ways these links can be made without the host’s consent.
Many political figures have established MySpace pages to connect with youth. Thursday, Liccardo found X-rated links similar to the ones from his site on the pages of federal and state officeholders.
Diaz and his consultant, Darren Seaton, both have histories of sleazy campaigning. Diaz’s claim of outrage as a father over the MySpace links brought to mind a favorite example of his campaign ethics. When an opponent years ago brought up Diaz’s failure to pay child support, Diaz trotted out his ex-wife to sing his praises—without mentioning that it was a different ex-wife from the one who had taken him to court.
Take Diaz with a grain of salt, District 3.
#1 Today’s editorial… that’s exactly what I thought, that I was reading today’s satirical post on San Jose Inside rather than a true account of Manny Diaz and his continued slide toward inconsequence. He now though has guaranteed himself a mention in every local newspaper article written about sleazy campaigning in San Jose for the next 100 years.
Politics have become disgusting and distrubing. Poeple are totally confused by the lies and false advertising. They can’t understand the ballot measures or whether the candidate is a moron or crook or just plain studpid. The outside expenditures by for candidates is terrible and circumvents all campaign contribution laws. The democratic party and unions want to own city hall and spend on Chavez and Diaz to assure their buying the city council and owning it for the next four to eight years. It is outragous what is happening. Someone do something to fix it please.
8 – Hey, that’s a good one. You could write for Rich. Thanks for the new material.
Aren’t you tired? Had enough?
Cindy this!
Chuck that!
It’s tired and played out.
Even on this cynical, tired blog, atrophy has settled in.
Look at the declining numbers of contributions.
What’s Next: Vision? Leadership?
Cindy:
Vision: Yes… a plan for San Jose.
Leadership: Yes… building consensus.
Chuck:
Vision: None… nothing, just plain nada.
Leadership: None… just his will.
That’s what the Mercury News said. Not me.
Beyond negative campaigning, take a look.
For Vision and Leadership in San Jose,
I vote for Cindy.
#11 MrWestSanJose…
I keep looking in the Mercury News for the phrase, “nothing, just plain nada” in reference to Chuck Reed’s vision and I can’t find it anywhere. Did the Mercury News actually say that or are you spinning your own lame interpetation of the mayor’s race?
According to the Mercury News editorial endorsing Chuck Reed, here’s what they had to say:
“His priorities of open government, economic development to increase revenue, and building an excellent park system are good ones. And his ability to focus on a few big-picture goals is a valuable quality in a mayor.”
Sounds like vision to me. and not a “nada” to be seen. Go post your fabrications over on http://mayorwatch.blogspot.com/ where they’ll eat up those kind of distortions. You’ll get lots of kudos and people telling you how smart you are.
11 – You said “For Vision and Leadership in San Jose,
I vote for Cindy.” That’s what made me laugh.
10 –
“That’s what the Mercury News said. Not me.”
Enough said?
Not that complicated.
#11 MR WestSJ
When a sweet, well spoken lady with cute little glasses shows up on your doorstep and fills your head with ‘visions’ of how this new vacuum cleaner or set of encyclopedia will make your life better, you know she has to be telling you the truth; right?
And when she tells you it can be yours for only a latte a day, you yank the paperwork out of her hand and ask, “Where do I sign?”
To do all this for you… to make your life so much better… she must be a caring person with leadership and vision; right?
Murky News editiorial: “When an opponent years ago brought up Diaz’s failure to pay child support, Diaz trotted out his ex-wife to sing his praises—without mentioning that it was a different ex-wife from the one who had taken him to court.”
Sounds like Cindy talking about how her Mom told her to stay away from the Tropicana Center, although Cindy grew up in Fremont.
Will Cindy and Manny stop at nothing to win?
HJ #9—the only way to fix it is one election at a time. Get out and vote, and urge your freinds to do so as well.
There’s a lot of apathy out there…but who cares?