With the election for the District Six seat on San Jose City Council just three weeks away (if the calendar in the left-hand column is correct), Perluigi Oliverio has garnered significant endorsements from two local media outlets.

They may be owned by the same mega-media corporation, but it does appear that the SJ Mercury News and the local WG Resident came to the same conclusion via different logic. After Oliverio, the two papers came to different recommendations for their “second choice” (the Merc leans toward Tedesco and the Resident mildly supportive of Clark Williams). In fact, detailed scouring of the two endorsements detected only one other notable similarity: The word “amiable” was used by both papers to gently discourage votes for a lesser candidate … although the Resident goes with “amiable Art Maurice” and the Merc described Jim Spence as “an amiable retired policeman.”