The Mayor (just this afternoon) admitted that he screwed up the Independent Police Auditor (IPA) selection. (He wanted a Lager?)In so doing, the Mayor also shot back that he let the entire Council know that the Chris Constantin had a brother on the San Jose Police force. He isn't using the actual phrase, "Councilmember Campos is lying..." but that is what he is really saying. And he has Councilmembers Pete Constant and Pierluigi Oliverio to back him up. You see, Campos has been hammering the Mayor over the "flawed" selection process, even though she was (seemingly) intimately involved in the selection process. In fact, the Mayor, Constant, and Campos were the three most important people in the process, according tonight's story.
This is all very interesting in terms of the actual IPA story...
But the timing also reinforces a lesson that Watch Dog has been teaching readers for some time: If you want to release bad news, or as in this case, admit a mistake, do it late on a Friday afternoon, or the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, or around Christmas Eve...
This mea culpa was released on Friday afternoon and appeared in the Mercury News at 6:49 p.m. on Friday. A pretty good time to bury a story. If we didn't have such a crush on John Woolfolk, we wouldn't know that the Mayor admitted this mistake until Saturday or perhaps even Sunday. (Spies who work late in City Hall also help a lot...)
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