{"id":63456,"date":"2026-02-05T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/follow-the-money-in-san-joses-city-council-races\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:30:06","slug":"follow-the-money-in-san-joses-city-council-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/follow-the-money-in-san-joses-city-council-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the money in San Jose\u2019s City Council races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A political newcomer is leading the fundraising pack in the race for this year\u2019s sole open seat on the San Jose City Council, as incumbents in other districts raise funds to fend off rivals. The first round of campaign filings for the 2026 election cycle, submitted ahead of a Monday deadline, show candidates have raised tens of thousands of dollars across the five districts holding elections this year. Those are the city\u2019s odd-numbered districts: 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. In four of them, the incumbent councilmember is running for reelection, leaving District 9, where Vice Mayor Pam Foley is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/follow-the-money-in-san-joses-city-council-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political newcomer is leading the fundraising pack in the race for this year\u2019s sole open seat on the San Jose City Council, as incumbents in other districts raise funds to fend off rivals. The first round of campaign filings for the 2026 election cycle, submitted ahead of a Monday deadline, show candidates have raised &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63457,"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-63456","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\/63456","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=63456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}