In the land of soft-spoken software engineer geeks, the Silicon Valley, things can still get rough. Especially when it comes to local politics. Termed-out Assemblywoman Nora Campos is running for a State Senate seat in a tough fight against incumbent Jim Beall. She is seeing red these days after her husband, Neil Struthers, was kicked in the balls at an event last month at the elegant Fairmont Hotel in San Jose during a quarrel with a local union official.
Local reporter Josh Koehn with the San Jose Insider says the incident played out like a schoolyard brawl.
“According to Enrique Arguello, the head of this local union, the assemblywoman’s husband came over and tried to pick a fight with him, called him a homophobic slur and a racial slur, supposedly, according to this one person. And basically the assemblywoman’s husband started picking a fight with the guy. He almost, apparently, took a swing at the guy’s wife, so with little recourse, being about a foot and half shorter and a hundred pounds less, he kicked him in the balls.”
After the scuffle, Campos posted a YouTube video accusing two state senators of putting two labor guys up to attacking her husband at a public event and breaking in to her home.
“This is a bizarre politician, but this is a new degree of crazy,” says Koehn.
Koehn says Nora Campos has about $300,000 of big oil money to spend on her campaign for state senator.
Josh Koehn was a guest on 790 KABC’s McIntyre in the Morning Show with Doug McIntyre and Terri-Rae Elmer.
BY Sandy Wells
