Well, Well, Well.
7:00 AM - Link to this article.
Not much to do but jump right into this one. For all of my haranguing about Tom McEnery, the closet lobbyist... guess what a tipster emailed me?
Yes, you're reading that correctly. That upstanding paragon of openness and government incorruptibility? Just a common, regular, run-of-the-mill, filling-out-the-paperwork lobbyist. For the newly renamed Sports Authority, the folks who run the Sharks and who, of course, Tom McEnery the Mayor brought to town and plunked down next to his lucrative sports bars.
Now, you're all going to want to dive into the full report, naturally, but let me save you the effort. Over the three months between July 1 and September 30, how many times did McEnery have private conversations with elected officials or City staff, a.k.a. do some lobbying?
There ya go. Four. 1, 2, 3, 4. And only one time with the Mayor or his staff. What's that you say? Doesn't sound like very many?
How dare you impugn this great man, by implying that he actually met with the Mayor or his staff more than once! And same goes for you, calendars of Chuck Reed and Mayoral Chief of Staff Pete Furman!
For those keeping track at home, that's five meetings in August and September with Reed and Furman. (For the backup: Reed in August and September, Furman in August and September.)
If he met with Furman, Furman needs to be listed on his form, per the lobbying ordinance. And granted, one meeting may have been cancelled, hence an updated time, but come on.
This is the moral authority for San Jose? This is the elder statesman who has the ear of our Mayor? Nothing more than a lobbyist flack for the hockey team that pays his bills. And one who appears to lie on the statements he gives to the City. All the more reason to look at his efforts (including the Earthquakes, in which he purportedly has a stake) with a critical eye.
Labels: Tom McEnery
12 Comments:
No wonder lazy Liccardo will not do anything for the RFK Memorial Forum. He is too busy meeting with Granpa McEnery, who sits around most of the day in his bathrobe clipping coupons, doing deals.
Who cares about Liccardo? This is ridiculous. Tom McEnery could not be a bigger hypocrite. What a sad, pathetic man.
This is a great story. Great job. I only wish I was reading it in my daily paper. McEnery has poisoned political dialouge in this town with his rantings against developers and lobbyists. Turns out he meant the ones who aren't him.
embarrassing. mcenery should be arrested
Looks like there are a few items missing from the McLobbyist registration form; where are contacts with the Police Chief who he has been lobbying to crack down on his competition with other bar/nightclub landlords and where are his contacts in regard to the water project he pushed with the Mayor's office earlier this year.
This guy takes the cake, he is a fraud and a phony and he better have my number on speed dial because he is going to need it soon.
Tom McLobbyist has violated the lobbying ordinance before. Let's not forget that he personally called on City Councilmembers to kill a deal that would have let the NBA's Golden State Warriors relocate to the San Jose Arena.
Tommy boy (McHypocrite), I guess when your bottom line is involved the will of the community does not matter.
There will be nothing on this in the paper. That is because the Mercury has an interest in not speaking the truth. They are a business and journalism is the strategy to get there. With the loss of Jay Harris and even Susan Goldberg it has become more about ad space and what the good ol boys in this town want from them. Tom was meeting with them about venues the city owns. Could it be the Civic Auditorium that all the sudden Reed wants to invest money in and create an RFP for? Has Reed done any economic development that does not benefit Tom? Earthquakes? Attempt at Cirque? Arena Subsidy? Grab for the Civic? I probably misssd something.
Can the Mercury Snooze not write about this? Can they be that in these guy's pockets?
We'll see!
as my 15 year old son would say: owned!
and no, I don't really know what it means either.
So the lobbyist McEnery claims to have never had any private conversations with Oliverio or Denelle Fedor during this period?
Highly unlikely, of course. How exactly is this lobbyist communicating with Oliverio and Fedor about Oliverio's weekly entries on McEnery's blog? By smoke signals?
C'mon Mercury News - what role is McEnery playing in helping Oliverio choose topics for Denelle to write about?
Oliverio swaggers around town telling his constituents to read his entires on Obnoxious Blowhards if they want to know what he thinks. Isn't anyone concerned about McEnery's influence over this elected official?
Aren't these forms supposed to be filled out legibly?
There's quite a bit that I can't decipher on those pages.
Isn't McKenry still trying to shut down the nightlife entertainment in San Jose and trying to build more condos.so he can get the city's money...hmmmm
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