{"id":55844,"date":"2025-04-07T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-special-election-pac-spending-tops-800k\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:30:15","slug":"san-jose-special-election-pac-spending-tops-800k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-special-election-pac-spending-tops-800k\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose special election PAC spending tops $800K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spending has skyrocketed on the eve of San Jose\u2019s special election, which will determine who will represent downtown on the City Council. Heading into Election Day, Matthew Quevedo, deputy chief of staff for Mayor Matt Mahan, is holding on to his fundraising lead with about $271,000 raised, according to recent campaign filings. Among the seven candidates, San Jose Planning Commission Chair Anthony Tordillos is second in fundraising, overtaking Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley Executive Director Gabby Chavez-Lopez since the previous filing deadline, raising about $163,000 to her nearly $152,000. The special election is scheduled for April 8. If no candidate&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/downtown-san-jose-city-council-district-3-special-election-pac-spending-tops-800k\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending has skyrocketed on the eve of San Jose\u2019s special election, which will determine who will represent downtown on the City Council. Heading into Election Day, Matthew Quevedo, deputy chief of staff for Mayor Matt Mahan, is holding on to his fundraising lead with about $271,000 raised, according to recent campaign filings. Among the seven &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55844","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=55844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}