{"id":64381,"date":"2026-03-17T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/meet-the-candidates-running-for-district-5-san-jose-city-council\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:30:13","slug":"meet-the-candidates-running-for-district-5-san-jose-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/meet-the-candidates-running-for-district-5-san-jose-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates running for District 5 San Jose City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the June primary approaches, the four contenders for District 5\u2019s City Council seat are sharpening their political pitches to the voters of East San Jose. The district\u2019s incumbent, Councilmember Peter Ortiz, is defending his seat against three challengers \u2014 local education leader Karen Martinez, broadcast journalist Vy Dang and Nora Campos, a former San Jose councilmember and state lawmaker who lost to Ortiz in the district\u2019s 2022 election. District 5, centered around the Alum Rock neighborhood, is among the city\u2019s most diverse with an electorate made up of roughly 40% Latino voters and 38% Asian voters. The city\u2019s vibrant&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/meet-the-candidates-running-for-district-5-san-jose-city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the June primary approaches, the four contenders for District 5\u2019s City Council seat are sharpening their political pitches to the voters of East San Jose. The district\u2019s incumbent, Councilmember Peter Ortiz, is defending his seat against three challengers \u2014 local education leader Karen Martinez, broadcast journalist Vy Dang and Nora Campos, a former San &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64380,"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-64381","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\/64381","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=64381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}