49ers Owner Jed York Pours Millions Into Santa Clara City Council Race After Years of Battling City Hall
”It would be unusual for a sports franchise owner or let’s just say any corporation or business to spend this kind of money even in a mayor’s race,” John Pelissero, the senior scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said Thursday. “Instead this has all the appearance of attempting to buy four city council seats just to improve the private interests of the 49ers.”
John Pelissero, senior scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and professor emeritus of political science at Loyola University Chicago interviewed by the Bay Area News Group and quoted in The Mercury News.
Oct 23, 2020
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