{"id":64504,"date":"2026-03-24T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/meet-the-candidates-running-for-district-7-san-jose-city-council\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:30:06","slug":"meet-the-candidates-running-for-district-7-san-jose-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/meet-the-candidates-running-for-district-7-san-jose-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates running for District 7 San Jose City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election season is in full swing in San Jose\u00a0District 7, where incumbent Councilmember Bien Doan is squaring off against three challengers, including two bitter rivals. The three challengers aiming to unseat Doan include City Hall staffer Hanh-Giao \u201cHG\u201d Nguyen, youth sports leader Rafael Garcia and Van Le, an East Side Union High School District trustee. Le and Nguyen have publicly clashed with Doan, and the pair have incorporated these longstanding feuds into their electoral cases against the incumbent. All three are prominent figures in San Jose\u2019s Vietnamese community and emigrated to the United States from Vietnam in the 1970s. Related&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/meet-the-candidates-running-for-district-7-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>Election season is in full swing in San Jose\u00a0District 7, where incumbent Councilmember Bien Doan is squaring off against three challengers, including two bitter rivals. The three challengers aiming to unseat Doan include City Hall staffer Hanh-Giao \u201cHG\u201d Nguyen, youth sports leader Rafael Garcia and Van Le, an East Side Union High School District trustee. &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64505,"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-64504","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\/64504","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=64504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}