Another lame excuse from a dem gone wild with power.
Sounds like he's toast! Good riddance too!
Sand Jose City Council casts historic vote to censure mayor
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13400601.htm
By Deborah Lohse
Mercury News
San Jose's City Council in a unanimous vote issued the city's first-ever censure of a mayor, saying Mayor Ron Gonzales misled the council and fell short of city ethics rules by not revealing facts he knew about the potential cost and impact of a garbage contract amendment he worked to secure for Norcal Waste Systems.
``This represents an unprecedented breach of trust,'' said Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez.
Said councilman Ken Yeager, who amended the censure to subject Gonzales' budget to a preliminary review by a council committee as an added punishment: ``I feel like a parent with a bad child,''
Gonzales, who has publicly apologized for how he handled the garbage matter, said ``I wholeheartedly accept the censure of my council colleagues. It is my obligation to earn back that trust.''
The council also voted 10 to 0 to reconsider in January whether Gonzales should be removed from committees on which he serves. And it voted 9 to 2, with mayoral candidates Chuck Reed and Dave Cortese opposed, to end the three-month-old investigation that concluded that Gonzales and his top aide Joe Guerra violated city policies by concealing information and misleading the council over the Norcal matter.
Chavez said the council should end the investigation so the city does not ``wallow in our shortcomings.'' She said San Jose council members, not the investigator, need to get to the bottom of two outstanding questions highlighted by the investigator, namely ``Why did the process fail, and what happened with our city staff not feeling confident moving forward?''
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