CA: Concerns on Cisco bid suppressed (New San Jose City Hall project)

Mercury News ^ | 9/12/04 | Aaron C. Davis

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Six months before the San Jose-Cisco Systems controversy went public, Leon Nix knew the city risked violating its own rules by favoring the networking company's products in its new City Hall. But he feared speaking out, thinking his bosses might come after him.

Now it appears he may have been right.

On a January morning, Nix, then the project's budget analyst, reluctantly sent an e-mail to his boss pointing out potential problems with the $8 million contract. A week later, he was taken off the project without being told why.

Today, as officials wonder where the truth lies in the biggest scandal to hit City Hall in decades, Mercury News interviews with Nix and two other dissenting officials illuminate a little-known aspect of the story:

-- sidelining Nix, overruling purchasing agent Mark Giovannetti and ignoring senior deputy city attorney for technology Brian Doyle.

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There was active opposition to the Cisco plan in the months before it went to the council, opposition that was far more vigorous and unified than city officials have acknowledged. But a cadre of zealous supervisors squelched these opponents ...

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On their own, they squelched?

'fess up, Mayor, What did you know and when did you know it?

btw,, When did the Cisco donations ($13,000) hit your campaign coffers?

Hope you had a nice honeymoon with your new bride and old girlfriend that you left your wife and family for.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The people now in positions of authority were among the outcasts of pre 1960 society. Now you know why.