{"id":62082,"date":"2025-12-02T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valley-candidates-lofty-campaign-ideas-scrutinized\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:30:13","slug":"silicon-valley-candidates-lofty-campaign-ideas-scrutinized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valley-candidates-lofty-campaign-ideas-scrutinized\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley candidate\u2019s lofty campaign ideas scrutinized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County assessor candidate Rishi Kumar is turning heads \u2014 and raising eyebrows \u2014\u00a0with a vow to shield\u00a0older adults from property taxes. Some people are pushing back on the idea. After the abrupt resignation of the county\u2019s 30-year former assessor, Larry Stone, a special contest to manage the county\u2019s $700 billion real estate roll is headed for a Dec. 30 runoff between Kumar, a former Saratoga councilmember, and Los Altos Vice Mayor Neysa Fligor \u2014 who also serves as an assistant assessor. Kumar faces an uphill battle against Fligor\u2019s commanding lead of 37% of the vote in the Nov.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valley-candidates-lofty-campaign-ideas-scrutinized\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County assessor candidate Rishi Kumar is turning heads \u2014 and raising eyebrows \u2014\u00a0with a vow to shield\u00a0older adults from property taxes. Some people are pushing back on the idea. After the abrupt resignation of the county\u2019s 30-year former assessor, Larry Stone, a special contest to manage the county\u2019s $700 billion real estate roll &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-62082","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\/62082","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=62082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}