When Powers asked why, Fiscalini stammered something about Mayor Ron Gonzales having discussions with Chavez. Word of Powers' displeasure quickly made its way to the desk of the mayor's major-domo, Jude Barry , who tells Eye that all is copacetic now. According to Barry, Powers mistakenly thought that the mayor had instructed Fiscalini that the whole issue of taxi-driver complaints was being dropped. Actually, Barry says, the mayor didn't want the entire issue buried. Rather, he preferred appointing a task force to examine the issue first, something he had discussed previously with both Powers and Chavez, Barry says.
Powers concurs that all is well now and that the matter has been cleared up.
Mixed Signals Republican Party leaders are urging San Jose City Councilwoman Pat Dando to reconsider her decision not to run for the Assembly next year. And apparently Dando isn't telling them no just yet. At the time, she said she wanted to stay near her elderly mother, who lives in Dando's Almaden Valley home. Immediately after Dando bailed out, moderate Reeps like Los Gatos Councilman Steve Blanton and Monte Sereno Councilgal Suzanne Jackson hastily began putting out feelers for their own Assembly candidacies. But some prominent party animals don't think either Blanton or Jackson would be nearly as formidable as the Patmeister, who barely lost in her bid for mayor last year.