United Carr Workers... and Xavier Campos

Well, we thought we were on top of our game. Not that many fun tidbits get by the Watch Dog staff. But an astute reader reminded us of something we wrote some time ago, and how it relates to last week's news...

Here's what we wrote in January:

...You remember that Dolores Carr's office is looking into potentially illegal financial practices and misappropriation of funds by MACSA in running a Gilroy-based Charter School... well, the DA's office is conveniently waiting until June to decide about whether or not to bring charges. It isn't just Watch Dog wondering if this is politically motivated procrastination on the part of Dolores Carr... the Gilroy Dispatch does too. Here is why it might be political: Carr would like to get a certain group's endorsement for her re-election campaign in June... this certain group has a favorite candidate running for City Council in June who used to be in charge of operations at MACSA... if she buries the charges until then, perhaps this favorite City Council candidate rides into office, Carr gets the endorsement, and everyone wins, except voters, of course.

Fast forward a few months, and we read on San Jose Inside/ Metro that exactly what was predicted happened, sort of... Dolores Carr got some impassioned support from Cindy Chavez, the head of the Labor Council, at the Labor Council endorsement proceedings. One can only surmise that Dolores Carr's political favor to hold off on the MACSA stuff played a role in Chavez's hard-sell of Republican Dolores Carr to the Labor Council. Chavez's plea wasn't exactly enough for an endorsement though... so that part of the Dolores/Cindy plan failed... which must have pissed of Dolores Carr to no end, as she is the one who went out on a prosecutorial limb for Labor...

Which leaves the real winner in this sad episode: Xavier Campos...

He got the double whammy: the Labor Council endorsed him (unsurprisingly, given his brother-in-law and sister) and his past affiliation with MACSA has been placed on investigative hold by Dolores Carr until after June, when he will presumably be in an election run-off.

Well, one thing you can say about Xavier Campos, luck is on his side... at least for now.