Sam Liccardo

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@SanJoseMax @CityofSanJose The data doesn’t support that notion. I encourage you to compare the crime rates of high-density New York City and low-density big cities in the South. — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@Jeff_Bay_Area @foxandfriends @ICEgov @SecretService We flew the Ethiopian flag last week. We don’t fly the Vietnamese flag because of the opposition of our local community to communist Vietnam, so we fly the South Vietnamese flag instead. Italian flag is flown after a ceremony at the County building typically. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jeff_Bay_Area @foxandfriends @ICEgov @SecretService Today is Mexican Independence Day— Los Tigres del Norte—before they won 7 Grammys and sold 40 million records—got their start here in @CityofSanJose, dropped by for the celebration — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jeff_Bay_Area @foxandfriends @ICEgov @SecretService We routinely fly flags when celebrating events relevant to the ethnic communities who immigrated from those nations —as do city halls in most major cities. We are a nation of immigrants and a city of immigrants. our US flag always remains atop its pole regardless. — PolitiTweet.org

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We won’t solve our housing crisis $650K at a time—we have to bend the cost curve to get more housing built. That’s why the ⁦@CityofSanJose⁩ has cut red tape & streamlined the ADU-building process. Jump in at https://t.co/vyGhlTUsLF 🏡 https://t.co/kgEXXucVbb — PolitiTweet.org

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Update: of the four injured firefighters in last night’s fire Downtown, three have been released from the hospital, and one remains for further evaluation. — PolitiTweet.org

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Update: there were four injured firefighters—conditions not yet reported. — PolitiTweet.org

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Our thoughts are with the three firefighters who have been taken to the hospital from the fire tonight on Santa Clara Street. Fortunately, none of them appear to have incurred critical injuries. https://t.co/SiTfZ7UQf0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Truly! — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Big props to @SJFD for putting out a blaze that took down this garage and caught some trees in my Northside neighborhood, but never got to any homes. Happy & relieved that everyone is safe. Heroic neighbors jumped into a home to evacuate pets #WeAreSanJose @SJFirefighters https://t.co/GtEk6oiwKy — PolitiTweet.org

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Big props to the San Jose Fire Department, which put out a blaze that took down this garage and caught some trees in my Northside neighborhood, but never got to any homes. Happy & relieved that everyone is safe. Heroic neighbors jumped into a home to evacuate pets #WeAreSanJose https://t.co/RuWgE2nURL — PolitiTweet.org

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@phillyd408 No blame cast. I responded to news announcements that Trump intended to “crack down” on homelessness. I invite federal involvement, such as providing federal land, if constructive & solution-oriented. I agree we should expand residential treatment for mentallly ill & addicts. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chrisroth408: Incredible turnout today at Amato Pizza to rally the community together & kick off @matthewmahan’s campaign for San José… — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrisroth408 @matthewmahan @Cunneenmachine @DevDavisCA @JohnnyKhamis @CarlGuardino @matthewquevedo1 @KevZwick @JPadillaCA @VoteWithMichael @silviascandar Thanks for being there, Chris!!! — PolitiTweet.org

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@gsoto5dd ...and the worst part was that the coffee was made by a bunch of Dementors.... — PolitiTweet.org

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@wayvoz @Jeff_Bay_Area @peterstormrules The FBI explicitly discourages ranking/comparing cities based on UCR data, because of apples-to-oranges problems in data, but your article includes mid-size cities (eg Irvine, Irvington, etc.)Among cities >500K (a std definition of “big”), SJ has the 2nd lowest violent crime rate — PolitiTweet.org

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Fired up to see former teacher, small business owner, & community leader ⁦@matthewmahan⁩ launch his campaign today at 4pm to become the next Dist 10 SJ City Councilmember ⁩ — come join us by going to this link: https://t.co/oHvA1Qve4e — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @monicamallon: This tiny piece of plastic has saved some around $20,000 since I started going to SJSU. If you go to SJSU, take advanta… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RachelEGolden: Big vote next week! @CityofSanJose -- 3rd largest city in CA, 10th largest in U.S. -- will vote on an electrification o… — PolitiTweet.org

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This week, we voted to expand the work of Dignity on Wheels in @CityofSanJose , an innovative non-profit that provides mobile showers & laundry to our homeless residents. https://t.co/yCamIwVDsQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@asmallteapot @aceckhouse @monicamallon (2/2) But we’d love to have your advocacy when we’re trying to get Cupertino, MV, etc to accept BRT along corridors that we’ve designated for more than a decade for BRT. SJ is happy to take BRT, but we need to get others in the region on board... — PolitiTweet.org

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@asmallteapot @aceckhouse @monicamallon You mean, except for the $139.5 million that we spent on BRT in the East Santa St corridor. Guys, I’m not arguing against BRT or better bus service (see what we’re doing in Dec: https://t.co/4rqDqPq64L) I’m telling you it requires hard trade-offs (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

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@aceckhouse @monicamallon @asmallteapot Thanks Aaron— we also increased ridership with BRT. Folks, there’s no disagreement here, except on one point: regardless of improved ridership, I continue to assert if we fund more of one service, we need to find somewhere else to cut. Budgets obey1st law of thremodynamics — PolitiTweet.org

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Fun for me to play interviewer in a conversation with my good friend (& inspiring leader). @CarlGuardino — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Fun to interview my good friend and an exemplary leader, @CarlGuardino — PolitiTweet.org

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@Tara47547840 I don’t disagree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@XRSouthBay Sorry— “blogs” = “buildings” — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@XRSouthBay Thanks. But we’re much less interested in resolutions and declarations and more focused on solutions: next week, electrification of blogs; next month: Coyote Valley — PolitiTweet.org

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@monicamallon @asmallteapot Reallocating funds doesn’t increase budgets. It’s the same amount of money—it requires hard trade-offs. , we’ve shifted to a 90-10 model to focus on boosting ridership over coverage—and lots of neighborhoods lost service so that we could focus on transit-dependent communities — PolitiTweet.org

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@monicamallon @asmallteapot False premise. I do want to improve transit—that’s why I advocated for & raised >$ 1milliom to support passage of three transit measures, and pushed to implement BRT in San José. Would be good to have your advocacy when we tried to persuade S. Clara, Cupertino, & MV to do BRT — PolitiTweet.org