What the Local Papers Say About Dena

By Dena Mossar

Endorsements and profiles from the local papers

The Palo Alto Weekly:

Mossar, serving as mayor this year, has demonstrated solid leadership on the council, and has maintained her reputation for honest assessments and straightforward comments. ... we have never found any hidden agendas or manipulative stratagems in her approach to city business. She ... has worked actively to promote alternative transportation, protection of San Francisquito Creek habitat, and other green causes.

Read complete endorsement editorial at: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/paw/paonline/weekly/morgue/2003/2003_10_22.edit22councl3.html

"A straight-shooter without apologies"

Read complete no-holds-barred profile at: http://www.paweekly.com/paw/morgue/2003/2003_10_01.mossar01mb.html

San Jose Mercury News:

Incumbents Mossar, Beecham and Kleinberg are solid contributors both locally and regionally.

Mossar has been a leader on housing and transportation issues in her six years on the council. She has pushed for more efficiency at City Hall.

Read complete endorsement editorial at: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/7073766.htm

Palo Alto Daily News

From Editorial Endorsement of Oct 24, 2003

...we are completely confident recommending Dena Mossar...

Mossar has grown in office, starting out as a neighborhood activist and a booster of alternative transportation. She now embraces a broader constituency, from business to housing, from neighborhoods to the environment. Her voting record and her service on the Regional Air Quality Control Board show she has an excellent record on the environment.

Mossar is accessible and responsive. She's not political, doesn't duck tough questions and gives straight answers. In fact, when we published an editorial Sept. 5 listing a number of issues council addressed, she wrote a memo answering each one in detail. It's on her web site at http://www.denamossar.org/issues.html

... Mossar and Beecham have taken the toughest line on controlling city spending among the four incumbents up for re-election...

From Diana Diamond's Column of May 1, 2003

Mayor Mossar shows she's got guts

Gutsy. That's the way I would describe Mayor Dena Mossar's State of the City speech Monday. Gutsy because she had the courage to talk about an underlying problem in Palo Alto -- suspicion and distrust.

This city is in a state of personal misgivings, peppered with a bit of anger.

As Mossar so aptly put it, "We are a great community filled with wonderful people, and yet we are suspicious of each other."

Mossar is an effective mayor. She's candid, runs a tight meeting and moves the agenda along. She also has become more centrist in her views, more global in her outlook. And unlike some recent sugar-coated mayoral state-of-the-city speeches the past couple of years, on Monday night Mossar minced no words when she said the city is seeing a clash of priorities, and that city government is "suffering from attack, suspicion, distrust and slow paralysis."

Read Diana Diamond's full column on page 8 of the Palo Alto Daily News of May 1, 2003 http://dailynews.service.com/dailynews/PADN/2003/05/PA_20030501.htm