{"id":55623,"date":"2025-03-28T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/special-interest-groups-back-district-3-san-jose-council-candidates\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:30:16","slug":"special-interest-groups-back-district-3-san-jose-council-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/special-interest-groups-back-district-3-san-jose-council-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Special interest groups back District 3 San Jose council candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Money is stacking up in San Jose\u2019s special election to represent the City Council\u2019s downtown seat, with constituents and special interest groups putting thousands of dollars behind their chosen candidates. Matthew Quevedo, deputy chief of staff for Mayor Matt Mahan, continues to lead the pool of candidates in fundraising, with recent campaign finance filings showing more than $245,000 raised as of March 22. Second is Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley Executive Director Gabby Chavez-Lopez, who has widened her fundraising lead over San Jose Planning Commission Chair Anthony Tordillos. The special election is scheduled for April 8. Two political action committees&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/pac-special-interest-groups-back-san-jose-city-council-district-3-election-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money is stacking up in San Jose\u2019s special election to represent the City Council\u2019s downtown seat, with constituents and special interest groups putting thousands of dollars behind their chosen candidates. Matthew Quevedo, deputy chief of staff for Mayor Matt Mahan, continues to lead the pool of candidates in fundraising, with recent campaign finance filings showing &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55623","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}