{"id":1401,"date":"2024-02-22T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designingmedia.com\/unityforce\/?page_id=1401"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:38:17","slug":"about-rishi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/about-rishi\/","title":{"rendered":"About Rishi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Introducing Rishi Kumar, our next County Assessor<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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When the pandemic broke out…<\/strong><\/p>

…I mobilized\u00a0the calling of 86,000 seniors, helping them by delivering groceries, medications and N95 masks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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When the Saratoga city council proposed a parcel tax\u2026<\/strong><\/p>

…I stood alone as the dissenting vote\u2014pushing instead for efficiency. The tax was ultimately shelved!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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When seniors were hurting because of San Jose Water Company’s many rate hikes…<\/strong><\/p>

…I\u00a0pushed back<\/a>\u00a0and defeated nine rate hikes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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When my city experienced a spike in burglaries…<\/strong><\/p>

…I held\u00a0over a hundred neighborhood meetings\u00a0that eventually reduced burglaries by almost 50%.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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When seniors were frustrated with the\u00a0 PG&E bill skyrocketing\u2026<\/strong><\/p>

…I organized our community and pushed back<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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ABOUT RISHI<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Rishi Kumar is a Silicon Valley hi-tech executive, valley CFO, author and educator running to be your next Santa Clara County (Property Tax) Assessor.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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As a Saratoga councilmember, he was elected with the highest vote count in Saratoga’s 70 year history. He has served on California Governor’s University of California’ Regents Selection Committee. He has also served on California’s K-12 public school computer science implementation panel – responsible for the Computer Science curriculum in K-12.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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ABOUT RISHI<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Rishi Kumar is a Silicon Valley hi-tech executive, valley CFO, author and educator running to be your next Santa Clara County (Property Tax) Assessor.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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As a Saratoga councilmember, he was elected with the highest vote count in Saratoga’s 70 year history. He has served on California Governor’s University of California’ Regents Selection Committee. He has also served on California’s K-12 public school computer science implementation panel – responsible for the Computer Science curriculum in K-12.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Rishi has been elected and served multiple terms as the Executive Board and Delegate to the California Democratic Party. He brings tech industry experience and <\/span>a track record<\/span> of people-centric public service. Rishi and Seema are proud parents, raising two boys with strong values and big dreams.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Rishi believes in fiscally moderate, result-driven problem-solving approaches as a political leader. As an immigrant and an engineer working for IBM, Rishi found his calling as an activist stepping up for complex community challenges that he <\/span>couldn\u2019t<\/span> ignore.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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As a councilmember of Saratoga, he challenged the system, unafraid to be the dissenting vote, and focused his energy on the tough community challenges. He led efforts to reject many of San Jose Water Company\u2019s water rate increases that benefited a million residents of Silicon Valley, reduced burglaries – the largest reduction compared to any other Silicon Valley city, and stopped a potential 300-room hotel mega development project on a hillside in a high fire hazard zone. When a road tax was proposed by fellow city councilmembers, he stood alone in opposition\u2014advocating instead for budget optimization to fund road repairs without raising taxes. His principled stand gained traction, and the council ultimately scrapped the road tax proposal.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Rishi brings a people-centric platform and a track record of getting-things-done to politics.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Stories of a Maverick<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I fight for\u00a0<\/span>YOUR interests<\/span><\/span>, not Special Interests and believe everyone should get an opportunity at the American Dream. I started as a community activist first, and I will remain so, no matter what elected office I hold. Read my stories below.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Rishi\u2019s unique approach as a political leader focuses on innovative solutions delivering significant results: reductions in crime, lower taxes, rejection of many of San Jose Water Company\u2019s proposed rate increases, and a steadfast challenge to the inadequacies of PG&E. He will always place the needs of his constituents first with commonsense and pragmatism.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introducing Rishi Kumar, our next County Assessor When the pandemic broke out… …I mobilized\u00a0the calling of 86,000 seniors, helping them by delivering groceries, medications and N95 masks. When the Saratoga city council proposed a parcel tax\u2026 …I stood alone as the dissenting vote\u2014pushing instead for efficiency. The tax was ultimately shelved! When seniors were hurting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1403,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1401","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":175,"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishi.aeologic.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}