“It always struck me as a means for harassing her out of a job.”
— Cupertino City Council Member J.R. Fruen, on a $20,000 contract for “a privileged workplace investigation” into former City Manager Pamela Wu, over matters including city workers removing some council candidate campaign signs along a road last November. Fruen opposed a May council vote to put Wu on leave before she resigned in a settlement with the city.