{"id":56916,"date":"2025-05-23T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-candidate-forum-focused-on-downtown-business-community\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:30:16","slug":"san-jose-candidate-forum-focused-on-downtown-business-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-candidate-forum-focused-on-downtown-business-community\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose candidate forum focused on downtown business community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates running for the District 3 seat on the San Jose City Council shared their thoughts on downtown politics with the city\u2019s business community as the election approaches next month. Gabby Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, and Planning Commission Chair Anthony Tordillos appeared at the Rotary Club Summit Center for a Thursday forum hosted by San Jose Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Leah Toeniskoetter and recently-appointed interim Downtown Association CEO Alan \u201cGumby\u201d Marques. The two downtown business advocates took turns asking the candidates more than a dozen questions, with topics ranging from supporting small&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-candidate-forum-focused-on-downtown-business-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates running for the District 3 seat on the San Jose City Council shared their thoughts on downtown politics with the city\u2019s business community as the election approaches next month. Gabby Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, and Planning Commission Chair Anthony Tordillos appeared at the Rotary Club Summit Center for &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56915,"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-56916","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\/56916","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=56916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}