{"id":56359,"date":"2025-04-28T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/here-are-the-top-two-contenders-in-san-joses-special-election\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:30:16","slug":"here-are-the-top-two-contenders-in-san-joses-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/here-are-the-top-two-contenders-in-san-joses-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the top two contenders in San Jose\u2019s special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two candidates are headed to a June runoff election to decide who will represent downtown District 3 on the San Jose City Council \u2014 \u00a0and Mayor Matt Mahan\u2019s pick has been shut out. Santa Clara County elections officials certified results from the April 8 special election this afternoon, with Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley Executive Director Gabby Chavez-Lopez and San Jose Planning Commission Chair Anthony Tordillos placing first and second, respectively. Razor-thin margins for second place prompted an automatic recount, which knocked Matthew Quevedo, Mahan\u2019s deputy chief of staff, out of the running \u2013 despite raising the most campaign cash.&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/here-are-the-top-two-contenders-in-san-joses-special-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two candidates are headed to a June runoff election to decide who will represent downtown District 3 on the San Jose City Council \u2014 \u00a0and Mayor Matt Mahan\u2019s pick has been shut out. Santa Clara County elections officials certified results from the April 8 special election this afternoon, with Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley Executive &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56358,"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-56359","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\/56359","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=56359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}