the fly: Silicon Valley News Notes Wednesday, August 8, 2007 How I Spent My Summer Vacation San Jose Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio's mother told him to "go find a wife" during his brief summer break this July, but the still-single 36-year-old District 6 rep is married to his work. He spent most of his time off indoors as a consultant for the software company Arena Solutions, although he admitted to Fly that he stepped out for one night to attend the theater in San Francisco. Whoa there, tiger! To be fair, Oliverio wasn't the only workaholic at City Hall this summer. Most councilmembers had to be pushed out by their staffers and ordered to get some air. Mayor Chuck Reed didn't even clock out until the end of July, his chief of staff Pete Furman told us. Reed was in Michigan for a family reunion when we called, where he plans to stay for less than two weeks. The rest of his vacation was spent pulling the usual 12-hour workdays. Geez! Sam Liccardo also stuck around until July 20 when he finally escaped for some R&R in Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe. But he was still glued to his cell phone in between bike riding, swimming and hiking excursions. Meanwhile, Pete Constant outdid everyone as a "community event junkie" this summer. According to his chief of staff Jim Cogan, Constant went to neighborhood barbecues every single weekend in July—a grueling—albeit caloric—task that every elected official must perform. Oh, and he also graced the car show at Cypress Senior Center and the governor's birthday bash at the Carolands Chateau mansion in Hillsborough (the largest house west of the Mississippi). The only councilmember that truly took advantage of her precious time off was 32-year-old Madison Nguyen. After her quiet wedding in San Jose to 31-year-old Terry Tran—first reported here—she skipped off to Hawaii for the honeymoon, although she said she wasn't very impressed with the big island. "It was overcast the whole time, there were tons of tourists and everything was really expensive," she complained. Nguyen seems content to be back at City Hall with a new husband and an unexpected tan.

 

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