FORTY-EIGHT HOURS after Santa Clara’s city attorney confidentially emailed a critical grand jury report to councilmembers, the city’s politically-charged police union launched a damning website blasting the city’s top leaders.
The site revealed the confidential report’s name, full paragraphs with incriminating details and photos of five councilmembers criticized in the report — including Anthony Becker, who was running against Mayor Lisa Gillmor, the favored candidate of the Santa Clara Police Officers’ Association. The union’s political action committee spent tens of thousands of dollars to defeat Becker and secure Gillmor’s narrow reelection in 2022.
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