Perhaps Councilwoman Nora Campos’s trek to the state Capitol today is an omen of what’s to come Thursday. After much speculation, the District 5 council rep says she will publicly announce her plans for public office in 2010. Her staffers stayed tight-lipped about it, only saying that she has decided to hold off on her announcement until Thursday for personal reasons. It’s been a poorly kept secret that Campos entertains ambitions for higher office. Campos’s staffers have been grooming her public persona over the past year. She has gotten a lot of attention by positioning herself as Mayor Chuck Reed’s opposition leader, sparking speculation that she planned to run against him next year. While she has been openly test-balooning the possibility of a mayoral run, she has also dropped hints about wanting to run for Assemblyman Joe Coto’s seat, says Rolando Bonilla, Campos’s spokesman. “Those are the two seats she has legitimately been thinking about the last year,” Bonilla says. “She has made the decision she is comfortable with, and more importantly, at the end of the day, what will best for San Jose.”
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OMG, tell me you’re kidding!! Nora in Sacramento… who would think for her? She gives credence to the saying, “If she had an original thought, it would die of lonliness.”
Ah, term limits! All it has done is require folks to wreak their particular form of havoc on a different constituency every 8 years, while feeding at a different public trough.
Don’t let the SJ door hit you in the butt on your way to Sacto, Nora.
How about Dog Catcher?
#3—or shop steward for the Amalgamated Dog Catchers, local 408.
This article answers the question: How could the situation in Sacramento possibly get worse?
In the face of a staggering budget deficit and legislative gridlock: the last thing this state needs are party hacks like Nora Campos whose legislative accomplishments include, hmm, I’m thinking here…uh, the unions sure do like her.
#2 has it right. I not sure who has prostituted themselves more – Jim Beall, Madison Nguyen, Nora Campos, Liz Kniss, Dave Cortese, Ken Yeager, Pat Dando, etc.
http://www.californialist.org/2009/04/13/nora-campos/
6 – Nora hardly fits in that group of names. You may not like them but at least they could express themselves in complete sentences and didn’t have to read every word they spoke from a piece of paper.
Nora in Sacramento sounds more like a horror film than a headline. Even scarier would be Nora for Mayor. Is this really the best we can do?
The link posted by #7 begins as follows:“Nora Campos is a candidate for Assembly in District 23 and currently SERVICES as a San José councilmember.”[emphasis added]
Wow! And just who does she “service”? Enquiring minds want to know!
The more I ponder the possibility of Nora moving up the political ladder, the more I feel like the subject in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”.
Does it really matter who goes to Sacramento? The legislature is already dysfunctional. What difference is one more labor shill going to make? Maybe we can get someone with an independent mind to replace her on city council. I can only hope!
#11—yes it does matter who goes to Sacramento. I can’t remember right now the book/article/essay re the power of one vote. So, yes, it does matter if one more labor shill is in Sacramento; especially if she has rarely, if ever, had an independent thought/idea.
#11-Jeeper said, “Maybe we can get someone with an independent mind to replace her on city council. I can only hope!”
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but, Nora’s brother, Xavier, is running for Nora’s termed out Council seat next year, and it looks like he will be a shoo-in. YIKES!
JMOC,
Not that your interested, but she is nice to look at!!!!
Campos is pro-union, pro-big government, and anti small/private business, just like Congress. Do we need more representatives like her?