On this week's half-hour webcast, "Behind the Headlines," Weekly Editor Jocelyn Dong and reporters Sue Dremann and Gennady Sheyner discuss the recent cash contributions and political fissures in the Palo Alto City Council race and East Palo Alto's effort to address evictions from red-tagged and illegal dwellings.
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Check out previous weeks' episodes:
• Behind The Headlines: Campaign Finance, Airbnb Conflicts
• Behind the Headlines: The Donkeys of Barron Park
• Behind The Headlines: Election Special
• Behind The Headlines: Retail News, Housing Controversies
• Behind the Headlines: Remembering 9/11
• Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto's master plan for public art
• Behind the Headline: The Evolving El Camino Real
Behind The Headlines: Housing Crisis, November Election
• Behind The Headlines: Stemming the Flow -- Flood Protection
• Behind The Headlines: Muslim in America -- Reaction to rhetoric
• Behind The Headlines: Locals to Impact Olympics
• Behind The Headlines: Race, Policing and Reconciliation
• Behind the Headlines: Reporters' Roundtable
• Behind The Headlines: Innovator in Education
• Behind The Headlines: Spectacular fireworks
• Behind The Headlines: Elementary math, Castilleja expansion
• Behind the Headlines: Saving Buena Vista
• Behind The Headlines: Brock Turner uproar and election recap
• Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto students speak out
• Behind The Headlines: DA's fatal police shooting report & Cash flows into the Assembly race
• Behind the Headlines: Teacher Compensation in Palo Alto
• Behind The Headlines: To the rescue -- Disaster volunteers prepare
• Behind The Headlines: Size Matters -- Student-to-teacher ratios in Palo Alto
• Behind the Headlines: Transportation: problems and solutions
• Behind the Headlines: Taxi struggles and Eichler disputes
• Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto considers full-day kindergarten
• Behind The Headlines: State Assembly District 24 -- A look at the candidates
• Behind The Headlines: College Terrace challenge Stanford toxic study
• Behind the Headlines: Inside the Brock Turner case
• Behind the Headlines: Tackling Palo Alto's housing and traffic problems
• Behind the Headlines: Dr. Steven Adelsheim on youth mental health
• Behind the Headlines: Renaming movement, Addison Donation, Office Cap
• Behind the Headlines: "State of the City" with Mayor Pat Burt
• Behind the Headlines: Bridging the gap - Understanding Palo Alto's Chinese community
• Behind the Headlines: Growing up Undocumented
• Behind the Headlines: Talking Sustainability with Gil Friend
• Behind the Headlines: Secondary dwelling units, New school proposal
• Behind the Headlines: Stanford University and Sexual Assault, Prepping for the Super Bowl
• Behind the Headlines: Development at Stanford Research Park; police and the mentally ill
• Behind the Headlines: Divisive mayoral election; fatal police shooting
• Behind the Headlines: The year's best and worst movies
• Behind the Headlines: 2015 Year in Review
• Behind the Headlines: Inside Palo Alto's Emergency Center
• Behind the Headlines: Undisclosed new-school proposal; groundwater pumping
• Behind the Headlines: Buena Vista owner sues City; New plans for public-safety center
• Behind the Headlines: Palo Alto Fire Department changes
• Behind the Headlines: Midtown bicycle paths; Transgender youth
• Behind the Headlines: New school proposed for Palo Alto
• Behind the Headlines: Tension within governing boards
• Behind the Headlines: Affordable housing; Transportation initiatives
• Behind the Headlines: Paly teacher investigation
• Behind the Headlines: Stanford students' activism against sexual assault
• Behind the Headlines: Preserving retail; capping office development
• Behind the Headlines: Transportation tax; Fiber to the Premise
• Behind the Headlines: Fall Arts Preview
• Behind the Headlines: Police conduct on campuses; new parkland
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Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 22, 2016 at 10:04 pm
on Oct 22, 2016 at 10:04 pm
It's been mentioned several times that the five wealthy families were merely "responding" to the Chamber letter. But the timeline doesn't bear this out. The first donations by those families were $5000 checks to PASZ, and those happened on September 22nd and 23rd. In terms of unprecedented, five families making $5000 checks to a PAC is already unprecedented in Palo Alto, at least as long as I can remember.
The Chamber letter didn't go out until October 4th.
Is it actually possible that the Chamber letter was a reaction to PASZ raising $30k in PAC money the week prior? Seems more likely than that these five families somehow knew weeks ahead of time what the Chamber was going to do.