Ugly doings continue after Herrera council victory
San Jose City Councilwoman Rose Herrera may have beaten the over- thetop campaign against her re- election by unions furious over pension reforms she supported. But the Herrerahate in District 8 hasn’t let up. She and her husband returned from a trip last weekend to find a suspicious package in their mailbox addressed to “Councilwoman Rose Herrera.” She called the cops, who referred the matter to the postal inspector.
A source told us it appeared to be “feces and who knows what else.”
“We opened it enough to know there was something in there that shouldn’t be sent in the mail,” Herrera said, declining to elaborate. “I viewed it as threatening.”
Meanwhile, the finger- pointing in union- land over the failed anti- Herrera campaign continues.
Last week we told you about an internal challenge to San Jose Police Officers’ Association President Jim Unland from one Jonathan Baker, who argued to fellow officers that the current leadership isn’t fighting City Hall effectively enough after a string of losses on binding arbitration, pensions and Herrera, among others.
“Have we been so successful that we shouldn’t change the leadership?” Baker asks in the SJPOA’s current newsletter.
Unland declined to comment to IA, but unloaded a response in a “membership alert” blasting foes real ( Baker) and imagined ( us).
“I don’t believe for an instant that Jon has any idea how big, complex and difficult this job has become,” Unland wrote, defending the consultants Baker said the SJPOA should fire— “no one worked harder” — and chalking up Herrera’s victory to her incumbent advantage.