{"id":60271,"date":"2025-09-19T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/santa-clara-resident-launches-recall-against-district-5-councilmember\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:30:10","slug":"santa-clara-resident-launches-recall-against-district-5-councilmember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/santa-clara-resident-launches-recall-against-district-5-councilmember\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara resident launches recall against District 5 councilmember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Santa Clara councilmember could see his name on a recall ballot. A group of District 5 residents, led by David Kertes, launched a recall campaign against Councilmember Suds Jain Tuesday after receiving more than the 60 signatures needed to legitimize the effort, according to a news release. The campaign argues Jain has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars, used questionable ethics, ignored residents\u2019 concerns and pushed for poor parking ideas in his four-and-a-half years of service. The campaign specifically cites slow movement on downtown\u2019s revitalization, which Jain represents, as well as his stance on getting rid of elections for the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/santa-clara-resident-launches-recall-against-district-5-councilmember\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Santa Clara councilmember could see his name on a recall ballot. A group of District 5 residents, led by David Kertes, launched a recall campaign against Councilmember Suds Jain Tuesday after receiving more than the 60 signatures needed to legitimize the effort, according to a news release. The campaign argues Jain has wasted millions &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60272,"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-60271","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\/60271","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=60271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}