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Mountain View community activist Job Lopez has reportedly completed his punishment for defacing campaign signs during the run-up to the 2018 City Council election.
Lopez, 74, was caught on a homeowner’s security camera spray-painting and stealing political signs for then-Councilman John Inks’ re-election campaign. In the footage, Lopez walked up to the front yard of an Old Mountain View home, spray-painting one campaign sign and stealing another. During the election, the Inks campaign reported multiple incidents of sign vandalism.
Police officials recognized Lopez from the video, and he was charged with petty theft and vandalism.
He later pleaded no contest to the charges and was sentenced to two years of probation and 80 hours of community service. According to court records, he fulfilled his community service through volunteering at Hope’s Corner and the Day Worker Center.
Earlier this month, the homeowner whose signs were defaced reportedly accepted $1,000 in restitution from Lopez for the crime.
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Just to remind everyone, Job Lopez was working for, and part of the Lenny Siegel re-election campaign. When the news first broke, Lenny removed Lopez name from his website.
Job Lopez is a 30 year friend of Lenny Siegel, and a vocal advocate of tenants rights. He tried to silence his political opponent, John Inks, in an election campaign, whom he did not agree with.
Job Lopez and Lenny Siegel, as our local activists, still to this day, work together to force what they feel the city needs to do.
The latest is our local RV parking issue and getting the ACLU involved in our city.
Only complaint here, now, is that Lopez plead “no contest”
Such a shame that this is what local politics has resorted to. Candidates using pawns to do their bidding.
Lock him up
What’s really bad is that Lopez already volunteers at the Day Worker Center and this is his sentence???!!!
Where’s the justice?
@Seriously
Just what an AntiFa member would say. I look forward to seeing you turn the other cheek when some one is caught violating your civil rights. I suspect I will be waiting a long time. There will be justice for all or there will be justice for none.
Do you folks hear yourselves? Obsessing over an old man who’s served his sentence and paid restitution, accusing others of being AntiFa members, going on long rants about how you are victims of some vast conspiracy against you? Please, talk these things over with your therapists, the amount of anger you all are bottling up is no doubt worrying your loved ones. This really is not a healthy way for you to live your lives. At least get some fresh air and interact with people face-to-face.
I disagree with your blogs because of your inherent hypocrisy and disrespect for our Constitution and Civil Rights.
FYI Libertarians are Classic Liberals, not Conservatives.
OK, I tried, but I think the lead poisoning your generation suffered makes any sort of rational communication impossible. God bless.
@Jake
The Democrats got a lot of sympathy votes after Kennedy was shot by a Communist. But Americans believe that the Perp should have received justice even so. Glad to know you are of a different heritage. I guess it is just a question of what kind of society you want to live in, evil or honorable and you have made your choice.
@Seriously
Do you deny you support AntiFa?
Watch out when you are out getting your fresh air. You may run into Job on one of his secret missions to attack in the dead of night his political enemies.
What cracks me up was the where he had to do his community service was somewhere he was previously volunteering. Talk about toothless punishment!
If someone reaches the advanced age of 74 and still has not learned how to be civilized it requires a serious intervention as I am sure your many therapists would tell you.
He should have been given a community service that would have a chance to pierce his ideological miasma, like caring for the Trump rally attendees that were mugged in San Jose by your buddies in AntiFa. Maybe then he would be a fit member of society, but I doubt it. Lets just arrange 24 hour monitoring in the months before every election.
Case in point.
Well said Justice Man! Well Said!!
All you are spot-on with Seriously’s and Jake’s comments, and this whole Anti-America thing that is sweeping the media.
It’s time to defend ourselves against these miscreants! Enough is Enough
@Seriously, IP confirms it’s a person talking to himself 🙁
@Lenny Siegel,
When Job and you where just sitting around, talking about issues, did you ever tell Job when the conversation turned to John Inks, that
“People who run for Mountain View City Council, regardless of their political persuasion, work hard, typically knocking on thousands of doors during their campaigns. We share a repulsion of any undemocratic actions take for or against our efforts.”?
I have watched you when you where on the dais, mock Tom Means. I have no doubt in my mind that both of you where mocking John Inks as well in private.
What did you do to make sure that Lopez does not behave like this again? because you 2 are still close together and working together on your activist agenda.
OMG! Is John Inks the obsessive anti Job/Lenny poster? Oh this is making more sense now.
It’s good to see that there was a penalty and restitution. It’s a shame that some people who preach tolerance are so intolerant of differing opinions.
I’m glad that he was held accountable for the vandalism near his home, but that was only one count of dozens suspected to have been done by him. There was additional video and still images of a suspect at Church and Shoreline that had a similar, build, similar clothing, similar gait, and even similar jowls. These sign were far more costly to produce and required constant maintenance by volunteers of the Inks Campaign.
@What-a-joke
There is no justice for conservative-leaning people here. If you are conservative, you can be targeted for abuse by the oh-so-tolerant left any time they choose with little to no consequences for their actions. This inequality needs to stop and it needs to stop NOW.
This guy is a CRIMINAL and should do time for his CRIME. Every time I passed John Inks signs on El Camino, they were selectively defaced by someone. I have very little doubt about who that someone was.
More evidence that the radical liberals talk a good story about tolerance and justice, but, when it come to putting those things into practice, they fall VERY short. Not all, or even most, liberals would do such heinous things, but the ones that do are giving the rest a bad name.
Lopez is a partisan hack who has no problem attacking the first amendment rights of a libertarian to voice his views in the public forum. Lopez was not willing to allow the electorate to decide and took it upon himself to silence an opinion he disagreed with. That is a violation of the rights of ALL citizens to be heard.
No jail time for this criminal simply emboldens them to do the same thing next time. Perhaps, next election, more cameras will be in place and a civil rights violation can be brought against the criminal. If the ACLU wants to actually do some good here, they should concern themselves with REAL civil rights, not activism for those abusing local laws.
Lopez did Inks a favor tearing down or defacing the sign(s). Inks got sympathy votes. Inks still finish last – but got closer to the field thanks to Lopez.
When the sign vandalism was first reported, I condemned it.
When I saw that Job was a perpetrator, I told him he was wrong.
People who run for Mountain View City Council, regardless of their political persuasion, work hard, typically knocking on thousands of doors during their campaigns. We share a repulsion of any undemocratic actions take for or against our efforts.
If anything, Job’s actions hurt my campaign.