{"id":64349,"date":"2026-03-16T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-district-9-candidate-promises-data-driven-leadership\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:30:10","slug":"san-jose-district-9-candidate-promises-data-driven-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-district-9-candidate-promises-data-driven-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose District 9 candidate promises \u2018data driven\u2019 leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Rick Ator drives around the quiet tree-lined streets that crisscross District 9\u2019s picturesque suburban neighborhoods, he notices the problems that aren\u2019t getting solved \u2014 derelict cars left\u00a0unmoved for months and unsightly plastic \u201cquick-build\u201d road improvements that never seem to get replaced with permanent materials. In such moments, he said he often asks himself the same question: Is anyone from the city seeing this? Now, Ator \u2014 a longtime tech worker and entrepreneur who has ventured into neighborhood advocacy \u2014 is jumping into the crowded field of contenders vying to replace Vice Mayor Pam Foley as District 9 councilmember when&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-district-9-candidate-promises-data-driven-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Rick Ator drives around the quiet tree-lined streets that crisscross District 9\u2019s picturesque suburban neighborhoods, he notices the problems that aren\u2019t getting solved \u2014 derelict cars left\u00a0unmoved for months and unsightly plastic \u201cquick-build\u201d road improvements that never seem to get replaced with permanent materials. In such moments, he said he often asks himself the &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64350,"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-64349","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\/64349","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=64349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}