tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485111.post-1145904247513475802006-04-24T11:44:00.000-07:002006-04-24T11:44:07.520-07:00Bobby commented to my previous post, and I responded, but the response does not show unless you click to add another comment, so here is the comment I posted as a response:<br /><br /><p> For me it's not about who should be mayor, but who should be<br />running VTA. If you remember, the Santa Clara County Grand Jury blasted<br />VTA's board as incompetent and recommended disbanding it entirely and<br />replacing it with an elected board of five to seven members.<br /><br />The<br />current structure of the board insulates its members from<br />accountability and favors the local agenda of San Jose over any other<br />municipality covered by the agency. In my view this makes VTA little<br />more than a political arm of San Jose's mayor, who appoints five of its<br />members.<br /><br />My post was a reference to that Grand Jury<br />recommendation to disband the VTA board. It was not about ousting Ron<br />Gonzalez from his office as mayor. As for who should be running San<br />Jose, that should be up to its voters. I only ask that VTA's board be<br />chosen in the same fashion. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:57 PM </p><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-2677494294894661"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>Penguiniatornoreply@blogger.com