{"id":49202,"date":"2024-04-02T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/will-san-jose-council-lose-its-labor-majority\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:12:06","slug":"will-san-jose-council-lose-its-labor-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/will-san-jose-council-lose-its-labor-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Will San Jose council lose its labor majority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive and labor-friendly politicians have enjoyed a majority on the San Jose City Council for the past two years, but the November elections may flip the balance. Formidable business-backed candidates advanced in every council race during the March 5 primaries, which could spell trouble for the South Bay Labor Council \u2014 the main cultivator of labor-leaning candidates. Labor leaders skipped challenging Mayor Matt Mahan to focus on growing the labor majority, but appear poised for a fight to keep current seats. \u201cIt\u2019s very possible the council flips (from labor to business),\u201d political observer Terry Christensen told San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight. \u201cIt\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/will-san-jose-city-council-lose-its-labor-majority-election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive and labor-friendly politicians have enjoyed a majority on the San Jose City Council for the past two years, but the November elections may flip the balance. Formidable business-backed candidates advanced in every council race during the March 5 primaries, which could spell trouble for the South Bay Labor Council \u2014 the main cultivator of &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":49203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}