Candidate for
Mayor; City of San Jose

Occupation: San Jose City Councilmember
Age: 43
Education and Qualifications:
Harvard Law School, Bellarmine. Former prosecutor.

This is your city government. You pay for it. You deserve a leader with my record of cutting waste and working with the mayor to reform pensions. I'm fighting for your priorities, like improving safety, accelerating emergency medical response, bringing BART to San Jose, repairing roads, and reducing homelessness.

I wrote the plan to make San Jose safer (http://www.samliccardo.com/a_detailed_plan) not by spending more, but spending smarter: using pension savings to hire 200 more cops, implement cost-saving technologies, and restore community policing. Without increasing city spending, I've launched successful efforts to cut red tape to create middle class jobs, provide tutoring for hundreds of youth, install energy-efficient streetlights, and improve parks.

Our campaign for a smarter, more innovative government has earned the support of over 100 Silicon Valley tech leaders, former Mayors Susan Hammer, Tom McEnery, and Ron James, crime fighters like District Attorney Jeff Rosen and David Pandori, community champions like Blanca Alvarado and Brian Cong Do, and budget reformers like Jim Cuneen.

My grandparents started a small grocery store here in the 1940s. I was raised to love San Jose as they did, and will lead our city with honor.

http://www.SamLiccardo.com