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</div><div><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, former FEC Chair Ann Ravel and former Assemblywoman Nora Campos, who are running for state Senate,</span>
<div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-senate-candidates-launch-attacks-over-campaign-funding/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-senate-candidates-launch-attacks-over-campaign-funding/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With March primary ballots hitting mailboxes in two weeks, the race for an open state Senate seat in District 15 is heating up, with candidates lambasting their opponents over campaign finances.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Former Federal Elections Committee Chair Ann Ravel this week called for fellow candidate Nora Campos to return campaign funds she received from Big Oil. In a series of emails, her campaign highlighted a <a href="http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2423848&amendid=0" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">$4,700 contribution</a> – the maximum allowed for individual entities in this election – from <a href="http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2423848&amendid=0" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Chevron</a>, an oil company headquartered in San Ramon.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ravel’s pointed out that Campos, a former state Assemblymember, said she wouldn’t take money from “special interests” harming California and would run a grassroots campaign during a <a href="https://sanjosespotlight.com/south-bay-senate-candidates-differ-on-controversial-housing-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Silicon Valley Democratic Club forum in May</a>.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ravel added that the “Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class, including</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> energy companies</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> who produce gas, oil, jobs and pay taxes” has spent more than $461,000 in </span><a href="http://powersearch.sos.ca.gov:3000/#" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">independent expenditures</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> for media production and consulting supporting Campos.</span></b></font></p><figure id="attachment_36209" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); margin: 0px 25px 20px 0px; padding: 16px 16px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; float: left; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 300px; background-image: none !important;">
<figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; padding: 16px 0px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Courtesy of Ann Ravel.</font></figcaption></figure><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In total, the coalition has given nearly $12 million statewide in 487 different independent expenditures, according to the California Secretary of State’s campaign finance database.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While it is not illegal, Ravel said the outside money pouring into Campos’ campaign could influence her behavior.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I don’t think money is always per se corrupting the way some people sway, but when you know that you are receiving such great amounts of support and that’s how you’re going to win your race, that’s certainly going to influence greatly how you vote,” Ravel told San José Spotlight. “To think that (the expenditures) are truly ‘independent’ as the Supreme Court intended in Citizens United, it’s definitely hard to believe.”</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Campos shot back by saying she had no control over independent expenditures made to support her campaign.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“As a former FPPC Chairwoman, Ann Ravel knows better than to accuse me of coordinating my campaign with any independent expenditure, and on a personal note, I’m shocked at these accusations,” Campos told San José Spotlight. “It leads me to question either her competency or her character. My votes are not for sale, and they will never be for sale.”</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Other than the Chevron donation, other contributors to Campos’ campaign include BNSF Railway Company, California Latino Caucus Leadership PAC, South Bay Construction and individuals. According to <a href="http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2434427&amendid=0" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">state records</a>, Campos’ contributions totaled $278,090 from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campos also referenced her <a href="http://www.cacleanaction.org/pdf/cacleanmoney_scorecard_2016.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">100 percent voting record</a> from the California Clean Money Action during her time in the Assembly. However, the 2015-16 scorecard discloses it “does not say anything about how ‘clean’ a legislator’s fundraising is or their voting record on non-Clean Money bills.” She did not answer the survey the year before.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked if she would return the Chevron donation, Campos said she’d consider that when Ravel returns some of her questionable campaign cash, referring to recent contributions from insurance companies.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Jan. 3, the Personal Insurance Federation of California Agents & Employees PAC donated $4,750 to Ravel’s campaign, while the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Federal PAC donated $1,500 three days later. She also received $1,000 from Fund Her PAC and $1,500 from PrivacyPAC: NARAL Pro-Choice California, both women-centered organizations. There have been no independent expenditures supporting her campaign, state records show.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ravel also received maximum contributions from fellow attorneys such as Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP and Lauder Partners. Ravel’s total donations from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 total $396,779.11, according to <a href="http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2434895&amendid=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">state records</a>.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But Ravel<a href="https://www.sanjoseinside.com/2019/02/13/former-fec-chair-ann-ravel-swears-off-corporate-cash-in-2020-bid-for-state-senate/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> last year insisted</a> she wouldn’t accept contributions from PACs and would run a grassroots campaign.</b></font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campos said she hasn’t run a “smear campaign” against Ravel because she wants to support another woman representing Silicon Valley in Sacramento, which <a href="https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-has-no-women-in-state-capitol-this-group-is-working-to-change-that/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">hasn’t happened since she termed out</a> of the Assembly in 2016.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If she’s going to attack me and call me out, then she needs to hold herself to the same standard,” she said. “I’m more than happy to address that and go down that hole (sic), when she’s holding herself to the same standard that she is projecting on others.”</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ravel doesn’t deny the funding, but said the insurance companies’ campaign contributions are substantially less than what Campos has received – in both dollar amount and policy impact.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ravel added that if she ever hears of any “evil” the insurance companies are doing, she’d return the money immediately. But until then, she thinks the two situations are like apples and oranges.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We are all covered by insurance, we are all concerned about having insurance carriers there to assist us when we need to be reimbursed for a loss,” Ravel said. “I appreciate that she’s got to argue that the insurance companies are somehow the same as Big Oil PACs, but I think that’s absolutely not the case.”</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ravel and Campos are two of seven candidates vying to replace Sen. Jim Beall in Sacramento next year. Other contenders include Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, San Jose Councilmember Johnny Khamis, paratransit operator Tim Gildersleeve, U.S. Army staff Sgt. Ken Del Valle and mechanical equipment manufacturer Robert Howell.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the dash for cash, campaign finance records from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 show Ravel ended the year with <a href="http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2434895&amendid=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">$396,779.11</a> in contributions, while Campos tallied <a href="http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2434427&amendid=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">$278,090. </a>Cortese and Khamis had only filed records from Jan. 1 to June 30, raising <a href="http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2397461&amendid=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">$486,952.30</a> and <a href="http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2399199&amendid=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">$280,204.95</a>, respectively.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State finance databases do not have any records for Gildersleeve, Del Valle or Howell.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact Katie Lauer at klauer77@gmail.com or follow <a href="https://twitter.com/katielauer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, opacity 0.3s ease-in-out 0s, border-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">@katielauer</a> on Twitter.</font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><div class="submitted" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.0018px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">May 2, 2016 - 12:00am</font></div><div class="content clear-block" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.0018px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field field-type-link field-field-publication" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_29840950/mercury-news-editorial-jim-beall-needed-by-silicon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">San Jose Mercury News</font></a></div></div></div><p class="editorialbodytext" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jim Beall's experience is showing.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As a state senator, he has risen to leadership on transportation and housing, top priorities for Silicon Valley, while continuing his longtime advocacy for the mentally ill, the disabled and foster children. For his work on behalf of cities -- the front line of interaction between residents and government -- the League of Cities named him 2015 Legislator of the Year. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Beall, D-San Jose, has richly earned another term in Senate District 15, and the district needs him to finish the good work he has started.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Democratic Assemblywoman Nora Campos filed to challenge Beall at the last minute.</span><b> She had begun raising money for a District 15 run in 2020, when Beall terms out, and probably jumped in now to build name recognition in the district's West Valley cities. 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</font><p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>Assemblymember Nora Campos</strong>
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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nora Campos represents California’s 27th Assembly District and
serves as the Assembly’s Assistant Democratic Leader for External
Affairs.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She was re-elected in 2014 to her third Assembly term and represents
San Jose, the Capital of California’s Silicon Valley, which is home to
global technology leaders such as Adobe Systems and Oracle.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She served as Assembly Speaker Pro Tem during the 2013-14 session. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
Assemblymember Campos served San Jose for nearly a decade as a
councilmember from 2001-10. One of her most notable accomplishments was
turning a neglected, high-crime area in East San Jose into a bustling
shopping center that increased the economically struggling community’s
tax base by 105 percent. As a part of her efforts to create this robust
public-private partnership, she was able to attract four financial
institutions to serve this area, where there had been none for more
than 30 years.
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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Growing up in a working class neighborhood of San Jose,
Assemblymember Campos understands that California’s future is dependent
on growing and diversifying the state’s tax base. As a result, her
primary legislative priorities include job creation and economic
growth. In her first term in the State Assembly, she worked to advance
incentives to keep thousands of entertainment jobs in California. Her
current legislative efforts include:</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><ul type="disc"><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Social justice </font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Job creation </font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Middle class growth </font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Working families </font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Public safety </font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Access to health care </font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Latino community in California and </font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Quality education. </font></li></ul><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Inspired by her parents’ work with the farmworker movement and Cesar
E. Chavez, Assemblymember Campos began her work for economic, social,
environmental, and political justice as a young girl marching alongside
farmworkers.
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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Campos serves on the following Assembly committees:</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><ul type="disc"><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Budget</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on Public Safety</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Business & Professions</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Governmental Organization</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Joint Legislative Audit</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rules</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Transportation</font></li></ul><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Assemblymember Campos was appointed in February 2013 to be one of
the Assembly’s representatives on the California Commission on the
Status of Women and Girls.
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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While on the San Jose City Council, she co-chaired the city’s Family/Domestic Violence Advisory Board. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
Many groups have honored Assemblymember Campos for her dedication to
public service, including the Clean Water Coalition, California Latino
Legislative Caucus Institute for Public Policy, Lupus Foundation of
Northern California, Tech America, La Cooperativa Compesina de
California, the Little Saigon-San Jose Foundation, the League of
California Cities’ Latino Caucus, the Santa Clara County Democratic
Club, and the American GI Forum Women of California.
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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Campos lives with her husband and son in San Jose. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67731" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This is bad news for the climate: on Tuesday afternoon, a critical climate bill, SB 32 (Pavley), lacked 8 votes to pass in the California Assembly. And the worst thing is that some of our very own Silicon Valley representatives voted No or abstained:</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67730" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-weight: 700;">No vote:</span></font></p><ul id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67804" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67803"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67802" style="font-weight: 700;">Evan Low</span> (Los Gatos, Campbell, Saratoga, Cupertino, and parts of San Jose)</font></li></ul><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67720" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Abstained:</span></font></p><ul id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67801" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67800"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67799" style="font-weight: 700;">Nora Campos</span> (San Jose)</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Rich Gordon</span> (Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Half-Moon Bay)</font></li></ul><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67721" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">These democrats have no good reason for voting no on these bills, other than being scared, by Big Oil's misinformation and scare tactics. SB 32 will be reconsidered (come up for a second vote), and SB 350 will also come up for a vote later this week before this Friday’s deadline.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Please call your assembly member today, and ask them to vote YES on SB 32 and SB 350!</span></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67796" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Evan Low: (408) 446-2810, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Assemblymember.Low@assembly.ca.gov" target="blank" href="mailto:Assemblymember.Low@assembly.ca.gov" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; background: transparent;">email Evan
</a>Nora Campos: (408) 277-1220, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://www.350siliconvalley.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Flcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov%2FPublicLCMS%2FContactPopup.php%3Fdistrict%3DAD27&e=49913dd46dcaf167d806970bde9143c6040ae527&utm_source=350sv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09_08_15_sb32&n=1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; background: transparent;">email Nora
</a>Rich Gordon: (650) 691-2121, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.350siliconvalley.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Flcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov%2FPublicLCMS%2FContactPopup.php%3Fdistrict%3DAD24&e=49913dd46dcaf167d806970bde9143c6040ae527&utm_source=350sv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09_08_15_sb32&n=2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; background: transparent;">email Rich</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">These two bills are designed to extend the state’s climate leadership beyond 2020:</font></p><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SB 32 (2050 GHG targets - Fran Pavley)</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SB 350 (50% fuel use reduction, 50% renewables, 2x efficiency - Kevin De Leon)</font></li></ul><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441753749698_67797" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The bills have already passed the Senate, the Governor supports them and wants to sign them, but <span style="font-weight: 700;">they are short of votes in the Assembly, despite the large democratic majority! </span></font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div>Rajappan said last week that she and Campos "don't have a comment on this situation."</div><div>
</div><div>It's not the first time Campos' office has seemed to be in disarray; accusations about her staff churn date back to her days on the San Jose City Council.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>But these new assertions come as Campos finds herself somewhat marginalized in the Assembly. Formerly the speaker pro tem -- appointed by the speaker to preside over floor sessions -- Campos found herself without any leadership post or committee chairmanship as Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, reorganized in November. Atkins late last month named Campos as "assistant Democratic leader -- external relations," a title that didn't exist previously.</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style="font-size: large; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Assemblymember Nora Campos</strong></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style="line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Assembly Assistant Democratic Leader – External Affairs</strong></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nora Campos represents California’s 27th Assembly District and serves as the Assembly’s Assistant Democratic Leader for External Affairs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She was re-elected in 2014 to her third Assembly term and represents San Jose, the Capital of California’s Silicon Valley, which is home to global technology leaders such as Adobe Systems and Oracle.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She served as Assembly Speaker Pro Tem during the 2013-14 session.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Assemblymember Campos served San Jose for nearly a decade as a councilmember from 2001-10. One of her most notable accomplishments was turning a neglected, high-crime area in East San Jose into a bustling shopping center that increased the economically struggling community’s tax base by 105 percent. As a part of her efforts to create this robust public-private partnership, she was able to attract four financial institutions to serve this area, where there had been none for more than 30 years.
</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Growing up in a working class neighborhood of San Jose, Assemblymember Campos understands that California’s future is dependent on growing and diversifying the state’s tax base. As a result, her primary legislative priorities include job creation and economic growth. In her first term in the State Assembly, she worked to advance incentives to keep thousands of entertainment jobs in California. Her current legislative efforts include:</p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Social justice</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Job creation</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Middle class growth</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Working families</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Public safety</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Access to health care</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Latino community in California and</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Quality education.</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Inspired by her parents’ work with the farmworker movement and Cesar E. Chavez, Assemblymember Campos began her work for economic, social, environmental, and political justice as a young girl marching alongside farmworkers.
</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Campos serves on the following Assembly committees:</p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Budget</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on Public Safety</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Business & Professions</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Governmental Organization</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Joint Legislative Audit</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Rules</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 20px; background: transparent;">Transportation</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Assemblymember Campos was appointed in February 2013 to be one of the Assembly’s representatives on the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.
</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While on the San Jose City Council, she co-chaired the city’s Family/Domestic Violence Advisory Board.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Many groups have honored Assemblymember Campos for her dedication to public service, including the Clean Water Coalition, California Latino Legislative Caucus Institute for Public Policy, Lupus Foundation of Northern California, Tech America, La Cooperativa Compesina de California, the Little Saigon-San Jose Foundation, the League of California Cities’ Latino Caucus, the Santa Clara County Democratic Club, and the American GI Forum Women of California.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 23.8px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Campos lives with her husband and son in San Jose. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University.</p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“If they’re not going to release the initial numbers, it’s likely
they didn’t come out very well for Nora Campos,” Beall’s campaign
consultant Michael Terris said. Beall hasn’t done any polling yet.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ed McGovern, a Campos campaign consultant, said the initial numbers
did show Beall with “very slight” lead, but he added that the polling
firm, Godbe Research, tested positive and negative information about
both candidates.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;"><strong>James Rowen</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>just can’t seem to quit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Magdalena Carrasco</strong>. The political operative who was<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/01/22/1_22_14_fppc_investigating_john_mlnarik_county_bar_association/">sued off the Internet</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for defamation has once again taken aim at the San Jose councilwoman’s fundraising before taking office this year.
Previously,
Rowen sent out dozens of emails to media and city staff excoriating
Carrasco for taking an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City, courtesy
of the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce and Yellow Checker
Cab. The trip, taken in September 2014, forced Carrasco to declare<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2015/04/29/carrasco-broke-rules-on-gifts-barred-from-voting-on-taxis/">a conflict of interest that bars her from voting on taxis</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>this
year. Rowen’s now calling out Carrasco for exploiting a fundraising
loophole for her East Side school board campaign from 2012.
<a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Magdalena-Carrasco-2014.pdf">Campaign disclosure forms filed this week</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>show
that Carrasco spent the end of 2014 collecting contributions as large
as $5,000 a pop from companies of local developers, including <strong>Michael Van Every</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Chris Neale</strong>,
as well as $2,500 from Yellow Cab, to help close out $25,000 in debt.
Had this been done for her council campaign, she would have been limited
to raising $500 per donor. Carrasco says everything was done by the
book and she’s had enough of Rowen and his backers, who she suspects
include her vanquished campaign foe,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Xavier Campos</strong>, along with big-sis Assemblywoman<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Nora Campos</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and brother-in-law<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Neil Struthers</strong>.
“They’re just angry people,” Carrasco says. “It’s like, get over it. You’re not a freaking dynasty.”
She added that the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/09/17/the-fall-of-the-campos-clan/">Campos Clan</a>’s continued attacks against her—while not even mentioning<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2013/11/13/11_13_13_district_attorney_nora_xavier_campos_george_shirakawa/">Xavier’s rigged election victory in 2010</a>—are “illogical,” but “maybe it’s a way they think they can stay relevant.”
Nora terms out of the Assembly at the end of 2016, but she’s apparently filed papers for a state Senate run in 2020. Hard to say<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/02/05/2_5_14_nora_campos_state_assembly_office_500000/">who she will berate</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>between now and then.
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rowen says he’s never worked for the Camposes or Struthers, but he does do contract work for their consultant,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Ed McGovern</strong>, on Santa Clara issues.</span>
“If I'm supposed to be working with labor, why is (county Democratic Party chair)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Steve Preminger</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>calling me and telling me to lay off Magdalena?” says Rowen.
While
the money Carrasco raised from developers for her school board campaign
could be seen as potential conflicts worth disclosing, she actually
voted against<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/12/san-jose-councilresidential-rezoning-soundly.html">Van Every’s land conversion proposal in May</a>.
“I
think he gave me a substantial contribution,” Carrasco says. “I haven’t
had a conversation with Michael after that vote. I think Michael has
done some good work. In that particular instance, I don’t think it was a
good fit for the city. I think we needed to maintain that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>property and not convert it. I’m sure Michael was not happy with the verdict. I voted my conscience.”</p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==
</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For some California Democrats, the biggest election threat these days
comes not from Republicans but from members of their own party.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When Sen. Marty Block, D-San Diego, announced in January <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article57063068.html" target="_blank" title="">he would not seek re-election </a>–
thus clearing the way for Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego –
California Democrats breathed a sigh of relief at avoiding <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article35846727.html" target="_blank" title="">a costly and divisive internecine race</a>.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">They may have relaxed too soon. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Assemblywoman
Nora Campos, D-San Jose, announced on Tuesday that she would challenge
Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, for a spot in the upper house. While Campos
is termed out at the end of this year, Beall has four years left in the
Senate.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Obviously there’s a disconnect” between Beall and voters,
Campos said, adding that “we don’t have enough women at the table in
making decisions on where California’s going to go.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Campos will
start with some name recognition, since her Assembly district overlaps
the 15th Senate District. As of the 2010 census, about 43 percent of the
people in Beall’s Senate district also lived in Campos’ Assembly
district.</font></p><div class="ng_mm_link1"><div class="videowrapper"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a statement responding to Campos’s entry, Beall touted
his endorsements from a roster of elected officials, from powerful
interest groups like the Service Employees International Union and the
California Teachers Association, and from the California Democratic
Party.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I am proud of my strong record of accomplishments in the
state Senate, from guaranteeing long-term funding for the Cap &
Trade program for projects like BART to San Jose to protecting foster
care youth from being overprescribed psychotropic drugs,” Beall said in
the statement.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is not unusual for multiple Democrats to vie for
open legislative seats. But a Democrat taking on an incumbent from her
own party creates a different sort of political conundrum, pitting
legislators against one another and threatening to divert party
resources.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Defending incumbents is a key duty for legislative
leaders. The challenge from Campos could force Senate Democrats to spend
money on Beall that could otherwise be put toward picking up new seats.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Jim
Beall has been a great Senator for Silicon Valley who deserves to be
re-elected,” Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, said
in a statement. “He has the full support of Senate Democrats but, more
important, after nearly four decades of public service, I expect he’s
earned the overwhelming support of his constituents.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At the end of 2015, Beall had $219,000 in his re-election account.</font></p><div class="ng_endnote_contact"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jeremy B. White: <a href="tel:916-326-5543" title="">916-326-5543</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/CapitolAlert" target="blank" title="">@CapitolAlert</a>. Jim Miller of the Bee Capitol Bureau contributed reporting.</font></p></div><div style="width: 1px; height: 1px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; text-align: left; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Which state Assemblywoman’s spouse rumbled at a “Casino Night” last month at the Fairmont Hotel? If you guessed <strong>Neil Struthers</strong>, spouse of <strong>Nora Campos</strong> (D-San Jose), step right up and claim your punch in the face. Naughty Neil has a history of getting into <a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/06/20/opposing-labor-forces-square-up-at-starbucks/" target="blank">chest-bumping matches with political adversaries at Starbucks</a>,
but this time he tussled at the annual Vegas-style hoedown for the
Santa Clara and San Benito County Counties Building and Construction
Trades Council (SCBTC). As <a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/01/17/1_17_13_neil_struthers_building_contructions_trade_council/" target="_blank">former CEO of the organization</a>, which oversees 25 local unions, Struthers apparently hurled a couple slurs at <strong>Enrique Arguello</strong>,
business manager for laborers union Local 270. Arguello’s outfit has
been a rogue political force, at times swimming against the South Bay
Labor Council current. Local 270 had a hand in <strong>Magdalena Carrasco</strong> bouncing <strong>Xavier Campos</strong>—baby
bro of Nora—off the San Jose council, and the group also might have
swayed a secret vote leading to Struthers’ resignation from the SCBTC.
Back to Casino Night. After some mad dogging, Struthers made some hand
gestures suggesting Arguello was gay before calling him a “fucking
faggot,” according to multiple sources. Struthers also reportedly made a
derogatory comment about Arguello being Mexican, perhaps forgetting
about his own wife and brother-in-law. It’s not clear who threw the
first punch, but Fly confirmed that Arguello kicked Struthers in the
crotch. A scrum ensued as <strong>Josue Garcia</strong>, CEO of the
SCBTC, pleaded for calm. Struthers walked away with a few scratches,
perhaps because his backup, Xavier, supposedly ran away. When asked why
he didn’t have his brother-in-law’s back, Baby X told folks he was
getting a weapon from his car. Yeah, because he’s about that life. In a
brief call Xavier jumped off the line, never calling back like he
promised. Neither Neil nor Nora responded to requests for comment. The
timing is especially poor since Nora is running for state Senate in an
uphill battle against incumbent <strong>Jim Beall</strong>.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The <em>Mercury News</em> has a story on its
blog that has been updated to include a police report, which was
apparently filed by Neil Struthers. The police report notes that another
man identified as “Pablo” kicked Struthers in the groin. The <em>Merc</em>’s
report also includes a statement from Struthers blaming state Senate
president Kevin De León for the entire mess, adding that he intends to
sue Enrique Arguello for slander and libel.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There are different stories about what led to the <a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/05/11/sources-assemblywoman-nora-campos-spouse-brawls-hurls-slurs-at-fairmont-hotel-event/" target="_blank">Casino Night fight involving the spouse of Assemblywoman Nora Campos</a>. While not everyone agrees about how it started, or who hit who, we can say one thing with certainty:</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nora Campos’ husband, Neil Struthers, definitely got kicked in the junk.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Or maybe we should say the groin.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Or crotch.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Or “in the balls,” as Nora Campos put it in <a href="http://blogs.mercurynews.com/internal-affairs/2016/05/11/campos-husband-kicked-balls-following-political-assault/" target="_blank">a story</a> by the <em>Mercury News</em>, which has since been updated to note Struthers was merely kicked “below the belt.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But let’s face facts: Struthers definitely got kicked in the balls.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Perhaps a more important issue is whether Struthers deserved to get
kicked in the balls, and whether or not it was a pre-meditated kick in
the balls.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to the man who kicked Struthers in the balls, the answer
is: yes, Struthers most certainly did deserve to get kicked in the
balls, and, no, it was not planned.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Enrique Arguello, business manager for laborers union Local 270,
returned a call requesting comment Wednesday evening and explained his
side of the story.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Struthers not only called him a “faggot,” Arguello says, but also
nearly punched his wife, which is why Struthers got kicked in the balls.
The argument here is that the ball kicking was self-defense.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Let’s start from the beginning.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It was a Friday night at the Fairmont Hotel, and the Santa Clara
& San Benito Counties Building & Construction Trades Council
(SCBTC) was hosting its annual Casino Night. Everyone seemed to be
having a good time.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Struthers was chopping it up with an old high school chum who is also
is part of Local 270, Arguello says, and during this time Struthers
said he would like to fight Arguello. He apparently said this within
earshot of Arguello, who was sitting at a table with his wife. Struthers
then approached the table and allegedly made an inappropriate hand
gesture—finger in hole stuff—in reference to a picture he saw of
Arguello and Omar Torres, an openly gay man who works in the office of
Magdalena Carrasco. Struthers wanted to know if the two had a sexual
relationship and how it worked, before allegedly calling Arguello a
“faggot.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(<strong>Background:</strong> Struthers probably isn’t fond of Torres
because the latter’s boss, Magdalena Carrasco, defeated Xavier Campos,
Struther’s brother-in-law, in a 2014 election rematch. Torres previously
worked for Xavier Campos in the 2010 race. The reason for the rematch
is Xavier Campos stole the 2010 election by 20 votes thanks to a <a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2013/06/05/6_5_13_george_shirakawa_felony_dna_mailer_xavier_campos_magdalena_carrasco/" target="_blank">fraudulent mailer produced by family friend George Shirakawa Jr</a>.
Arguello’s union supported Carrasco’s candidacy in 2014, and there’s a
belief that Local 270 swayed a vote that led to Struthers’ resignation
from the SCBTC. Whew! Got all that?)</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Following the homophobic slurs, Arguello says, he and his wife got up to leave, but Struthers wasn’t done.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“When I was walking away he threw the first punch at me,” Arguello
says. “He hit me on my shoulder and pulled me from my suit. He told me,
‘Come outside and I’ll kick your ass.’ My wife tried to separate us,
standing in front of me. Then he tried to hit me over my wife, and he
hit her instead of me.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And that’s when Arguello kicked Struthers in the balls.</font></p>
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</font><p class="wp-caption-text"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Neil Struthers got kicked in the balls.</font></p></div>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <em>Merc</em>’s story includes a police report from May 2, a few
days after the April 29 event, in which a man named “Pablo” is blamed
for kicking Struthers in the balls. This person is believed to be Pablo
Sencion, an executive board-field representative for Local 270.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Arguello said that Sencion may have been part of the scuffle—a lot of
people rushed in fast—but he does not believe Sencion was the person
who kicked Struthers in the balls. That’s because Arguello admitted he
was the one who kicked Struthers in the balls.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I’m pretty sure he was drunk,” Arguello says. “Even after everyone
separated us he threw beer over everyone and my wife. He was holding a
Corona in his hand the moment he approached me.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Struthers provided a statement to the <em>Merc</em> denying he
started the fight. He also noted that he planned to sue Arguello for
libel and slander. When told this Wednesday evening, Arguello said he is
considering his own lawsuit against Struthers.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Arguello also said there were plenty of witnesses who heard
Struthers’ comments, inlcuding Jerry Zamora, business manager for the
cement masons union Local 400.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A message requesting an interview with Zamora has yet to be returned. Struthers has not responded to multiple calls.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As if this story couldn’t get any stranger, Nora Campos released a
YouTube video on Wednesday accusing state Senate President Kevin de León
and Senator Jim Beall, who she is challenging in the June primary, of
telling Arguello and his “thugs” to beat up her husband.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Last week, [Arguello] and his gang of supporters violently attacked my husband simply for being married to me," Campos said.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Requests for comment from de León and Beall were not immediately returned.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Reading prepared statements in her Assembly office, Campos goes on to
say that two Local 270 “henchmen” were “intercepted” by California
Highway Patrol (CHP) officers while en route to break into Campos and
Struthers’ home.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She then challenged de León and Beall: “Senators, you will
conveniently plead the Fifth today, however, you know very well that Mr.
Arguello has a long track record of receiving orders and support from
the both of you.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The wording of that statement is fairly incredible.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In 2013, Nora Campos’ own brother, Xavier, then a sitting San Jose councilman, <a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2013/11/13/11_13_13_xavier_campos_takes_the_fifth/" target="_blank">invoked the Fifth</a> when testifying before a grand jury about the stolen election of 2010.</b></font></p>
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</font><p class="wp-caption-text"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Former San Jose Councilman Xavier Campos refused to answer the simplest of questions during a 2013 grand jury hearing.</font></p></div>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In <a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Local-270-Press-Release.pdf" target="_blank">a statement</a>
sent out Thursday afternoon by Local 270, Arguello called Nora Campos’
remarks “not only a distortion of the facts, but completely and
intentionally false.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He added: “This abuse of her elected office is shameful. Like her
husband Neil Struthers, Ms. Campos is demonstrating a pattern of
threatening and attacking those who do not share their views. She
is using the power and connections of her elected office to bully her
constituents and to cover up for her husband's misconduct—namely,
repeatedly and publicly threatening me with physical harm, publicly
insulting me with ethnic and homophobic slurs, and physically assaulting
both my wife and me at a public gathering with numerous witnesses
present.”</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There’s a lot going on here, but one thing is certain: Neil Struthers definitely got kicked in the balls.</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Josh Koehn is the managing editor for San Jose Inside and Metro Silicon Valley. Email tips to <a href="mailto:josh@metronews.com" title="josh@metronews.com">josh@metronews.com</a> or follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/Josh_Koehn" title="@Josh_Koehn">@Josh_Koehn</a>.</font></p> </div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) - SB 3 - Increases Minimum Wage
03/16/2016
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 100 by Humane Society Legislative Fund </b>(Positions (CA State Legislature))
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 100 by Humane Society Legislative Fund (Positions (CA State Legislature))
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 100 by Humane Society Legislative Fund (Positions (CA State Legislature))
03/10/2016
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 1% by American Conservative Union</b> (Lifetime Score (State Legislatures))
03/07/2016
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 36% by National Federation of Independent Business</b> (Positions (State Legislatures))
03/03/2016
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 4% by American Conservative Union (Positions (State Legislatures))
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 100 by Humane Society Legislative Fund (Positions (CA State Legislature))
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 0% by California Republican Assembly (Positions)
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) - SB 7 - Increases Smoking Age to 21
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) - SB 5 - Amends Regulations for E-Cigarettes
03/01/2016
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 93 by Consumer Federation of California</b> (Positions (Lifetime))
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 86 by Consumer Federation of California (Positions)
02/12/2016
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 96% by California Bicycle Coalition (Positions)
02/04/2016
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 100% by Drug Policy Forum of California (DPFCA) (Positions (State Legislature))
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 100 by California Labor Federation (Total Score)
02/01/2016
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 100 by Planned Parenthood</b> Affiliates of California (Positions)
12/14/2015
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 7% by National Rifle Association (Candidate Positions on Gun Rights)
11/27/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 91% by California League of Conservation Voters</b> (Lifetime Scores)
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 91% by California League of Conservation Voters (Positions)
11/25/2015
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 38% by California Taxpayers' Association </b>(Positions)
11/24/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 33% by California Chamber of Commerce (Positions)
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 100% by Congress of California Seniors (Positions)
11/23/2015
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 18% by Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association</b> (Positions)
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 100% by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (Positions)
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 33% by National Federation of Independent Business (Positions (State Legislatures))
Rating:
<b>Nora Campos was rated 78% by Sierra Club California (Positions)
11/13/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 0% by Gun Owners of California (Positions)</b>
09/18/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 96% by California Teachers Association (Positions)
09/11/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) - SB 350 - Establishes Renewable Energy Production Targets
09/10/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Concurrence Vote) - AB 953 - Amends "Profiling" Regulations
09/09/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage) - AB 15 - Authorizes A Physician to Prescribe Aid-in-Dying Drugs
09/04/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Concurrence Vote) - AB 96 - Prohibits Sale of Ivory and Rhino Horn
09/01/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) - SB 707 - Prohibits Concealed Firearms on School Grounds
08/20/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Concurrence Vote) - AB 1100 - Increases Ballot Initiative Fee
08/17/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 0% by American Conservative Union (Positions (State Legislatures))
08/13/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 100% by American Cancer Society California Division, Inc. (Positions)
08/12/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 93% by California League of Conservation Voters (Positions)
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 91% by California League of Conservation Voters (Lifetime Scores)
08/11/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 29% by California Chamber of Commerce (Positions)
07/16/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage) - SB 227 - Prohibits Grand Juries from Investigating Certain Cases
06/25/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) - SB 277 - Amends School Immunization Requirements
06/19/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) - SB 88 - Amends Water Use Regulations
06/02/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage) - AB 1461 - Establishes the California New Motor Voter Program
06/01/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage) - AB 718 - Authorizes Sleeping in Vehicles
05/26/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage) - AB 884 - Requires the Attorney General to Denote Ballot Initiatives That May Be Unconstitutional
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage) - AB 775 - Requires Pregnancy Centers to Inform Clients of State Pregnancy Services
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage) - AB 1100 - Increases Ballot Initiative Fee
05/11/2015
Vote:
Nora Campos voted Yea (Passage) - AB 202 - Requires Professional Sports Teams to Deem Their Cheerleaders Employees
05/04/2015
Rating:
Nora Campos was rated 99% by California Communities United Institute (Positions)
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