Recall efforts from former Santa Clara city council candidate David Kertes against Councilmember Suds Jain fell on deaf ears after Kertes missed the Oct. 6 deadline to make good on his threats.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs of close of business Monday, the proponents had not filed the above-mentioned documents,\u201d said a letter signed by City of Santa Clara Clerk Bob O\u2019Keefe. \u201cThe City Clerk\/Elections Official has no discretion in accepting nor shall accept any late mandatory filings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kertes\u2019 campaign, launched Sept. 16, failed to turn in paper work showing at least 2,055 unique signatures from the more than 10,000 registered voters in District 5 needed for a recall effort on a special election ballot.<\/p>\n
Kertes, who ran an unsuccessful campaign against then-incumbent District 5 Councilmember Jain, describes himself as a sales and marketing veteran. He said he is vice president of sales and marketing at American Equipment.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy skills in negotiations, contracts, debates, and strategic planning are a perfect fit for what we currently need on the city council,\u201d he wrote on his public NextDoor page.<\/p>\n
Since losing in November by 314 votes, Kertes launched what critics described as a campaign to settle scores.<\/p>\n
Long-time downtown Santa Clara advocate Mary Grizzle said she recently received a threat of litigation from Kertes\u2019 attorney after a social media spat that Kertes took as a slander of his character.<\/p>\n
Grizzle said she does not intend to back down from her commentary and advocacy after chatting with legal experts.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth (Mayor Lisa) Gillmor and Kertes took a lot of heat from the public on the cease and desist,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Kertes has since backed away from social media activities and could not be reached for comment. Jain was in a council meeting and did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recall efforts from former Santa Clara city council candidate David Kertes against Councilmember Suds Jain fell on deaf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3547,3548,3549,3550,3551,88,90,89,2919,2923],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bob-okeefe","tag-city-of-santa-clara","tag-david-kertes","tag-lisa-gillmor","tag-recall-election","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-city-council","tag-suds-jain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}