Joanna Rauh isn't just one of the best candidate to symbolize downtown San Jose on the Metropolis Council. Her 15 years as knowledgeable negotiator would even be a godsend because the council navigates the sticky problems with public security, homelessness and reasonably priced housing.
District 3 encompasses the downtown core, Japantown, San Jose State College and the neighborhoods of Washington-Guadalupe and Spartan Keys.
Voters in downtown have come to count on sturdy management from their council representatives. With good motive. The district has supplied confirmed leaders equivalent to Raul Peralez, Sam Liccardo, Cindy Chavez, David Pandori, Susan Hammer and Tom McEnery.
Rauh is brilliant, articulate and demonstrates the best potential to observe of their footsteps. She works as an assistant common counsel on the Huge 4 accounting agency Deloitte, the place she leads the authorized crew’s professional bono and philanthropic work.
That’s given her an understanding of the compelling want to assist those that are struggling in life. That features searching for short-term and long-term housing options, which she lists as her highest precedence if elected. She doesn’t supply a laundry record of recent approaches, however she understands the significance of getting town, county, state and non-profits working collectively if we're to make progress.
“I’m not focused on combating or taking an excessive place that can trigger us to be taking part in tug of battle,” she says. “I’m focused on getting everybody pulling in the identical path.”
San Jose wants folks on the council who aren’t locked into knee-jerk positions on its greatest challenges, command the respect of each enterprise and labor pursuits, and are able to crafting win-win compromises. As a mom of three kids underneath the age of 4, Rauh understands the necessity to create a secure surroundings within the downtown district and construct extra reasonably priced housing.
The 4 different candidates searching for to interchange Peralez, who can not run once more due to time period limits, are legal professional Elizabeth Chien-Hale, mediator Irene Smith, well being care skilled Ivan Torres and San Jose-Evergreen Neighborhood School District board Trustee Omar Torres.
Chien-Hale is president of the San Jose Downtown Residents Affiliation. She, too, articulates an impartial method to points and has confirmed negotiating expertise as an mental property lawyer. However she lacks the monetary and political backing of Rauh, who's endorsed by Liccardo, McEnery, the San Jose Police Officers Affiliation and the League of Conservation Voters of Santa Clara County.
Smith has expertise working inside a psychological well being facility in downtown San Jose. She, too, has a legislation diploma and has her personal mediation enterprise. However she was fuzzy on her place for offering long-term options to San Jose’s homelessness downside.
Ivan Torres works at Stanford hospital and is probably the most progressive candidate within the race. However he fails to obviously perceive the council’s function, as demonstrated when he advocated that town pay the tutoring for San Jose’s group faculty college students.
Omar Torres, who shouldn't be associated to Ivan Torres, is the labor candidate within the race and is backed by the South Bay Labor Council. He's additionally the one skilled officeholder within the discipline, having beforehand served on the Franklin McKinley Faculty District.
The Metropolis Council can be Rauh’s first elective workplace, because it was for Peralez, Liccardo, Chavez, Pandori, Hammer and McEnery. She would offer a recent method to what have been divisive points. We advocate her to District 3 voters.