{"id":53597,"date":"2024-11-08T08:13:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-joses-new-congressman-tried-to-kill-story-to-protect-state-speaker\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T08:13:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:13:23","slug":"san-joses-new-congressman-tried-to-kill-story-to-protect-state-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-joses-new-congressman-tried-to-kill-story-to-protect-state-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose\u2019s new congressman tried to kill story to protect state speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an anxious 30-second voicemail, Sam Liccardo urged a friend to kill a critical article related to California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas \u2014 warning it would \u201cblow up in a really bad way\u201d for himself and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. The voicemail from the former San Jose mayor and congressman-elect \u2014 left three days before Election Day \u2014 was for Jonathan Padilla, Liccardo\u2019s former campaign staffer and longtime ally. Padilla requested a highly-controversial recount in Silicon Valley\u2019s high-profile Congressional District 16 race that knocked one of Liccardo\u2019s opponents off the ballot and handed him a win. The two weren\u2019t&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-joses-new-congressman-tried-to-kill-story-to-protect-state-speaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an anxious 30-second voicemail, Sam Liccardo urged a friend to kill a critical article related to California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas \u2014 warning it would \u201cblow up in a really bad way\u201d for himself and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. The voicemail from the former San Jose mayor and congressman-elect \u2014 left three days &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":53598,"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-53597","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\/53597","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=53597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}