CC 11-05-18 Oral CommunicationsGood Evening Mayor and Cou ncil members,
My name is Robert McCoy, I am the vice Chair of the Public Safety Commission. Tonight, however, I
am speaking to you as a deeply co n cerned resident.
I say the following mindful that it may carry repercussions, but I feel I can no longer sit back in good
conscious and watch this commu n ity be destroyed.
For over four years now our community has been held hostage by a so-called grassroots movement.
This group claims to be pro-resident, but based on their behavior, here in this chamber and
elsewhere, they clearly have no respect for different opinions held by their neighbors. Rather than
foster community dialogue, they have taken to the social media platform Nextdoor to establish an
iron grip on dissenting views. "There, they promote their own followers as leads and proceed to censor
speech with which they disagree and to bully innocent members of this community into silence.
On a daily basis, they bombard this community nonstop with their rhetoric and allegations of
corruption. They routinely cla i m that upstanding members of this body are on the take and in the
developer's pocket. They busily campaign for their own candidates in violation of Nextdoor's rules.
Many members of this community including myself are routinely vilified and slandered; called shills
and accused of secretly working for developers. Given the volume of this abuse, it is no wonder that
Nextdoor cannot keep up and the behavior worsens day by day. This city encouraged the community
to use Nextdoor so we could get to know one another. One group has hijacked it for its own purpose
and stifled public discourse. This platform was designed to bring communities together but in this
case it is the vehicle of division.
One of these so-called pro-resident leaders is our own council member Steven Scharf who will post
about his colleagues having a lack of ethics, morals, and integrity. This, despite having previously been
banned from the platform for creating numerous fake accounts to create an artificial echo chamber
for himself and his ideas.
This moral duplicity seeps into rea I life. Where, Steven, were your ethic, morals, and integrity on
Sunday evening while you sped up and down De Anza and Stevens Creek for close to an hour honking
your horn nonstop being a nuisance and creating a disturbance while endangering the motorists who
shared the road with you as yourfriends cheered you on all of which I recorded?
How can you think this kind of egregious behavior is acceptable here in our community? YOU are paid
to represent, when clearly you only care about yourself, your friends and your own agenda?
As a resident I want to make it clear that Mr. Scharf DOES NOT in any way represent me or my
interests.
If any reporters present would like to hear the real story of this Battle of Cupertino please feel free to
contact me.
From: Nextdoor Support <het p@nextdoor.com>
To: emt7076996@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, October 10, 20168:57 AM
Subject: Re: Your Report to Nextdoor
Type your response ABOVE THIS LINE to reply
Robert McCoy
Subject: Your Report to Nextdoor
OCT 10, 2016 I 08:57AM PDT
Bobak replied:
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the report and apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this
.issue. I've been somewhat ove.rwhelmed with the volume of reports coming from this
particular set of neighborhoods and I've been backlogged in responding to this
particular conflict.
Just to clarify a few thi ngs:
1. I never invited Steven Scharf to Ne.xtdoor. I don 't actually know him personally,
though I have had to remove him multiple times over the last year for violating our
Neighborhood Guidelines and violating our policies around creating duplicate and fake
accounts. If he's saying anything to the contrary it's simply not true.
2 . To my knowledge, all of the accounts reported to me are currently suspended.
3. I'm working with our engineering team to permanently put an end to the creation of
these fake accounts and keep Steven suspended until he resolves the longstanding
issues that my team has with him concerning his repeated violation of the Nextdoor
Guidelines.
Let me know if that helps clarify things, and if you need further help.
Best,
Bobak
Nextdoor.com
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