San Leandro Councilmember Benny Lee’s mayoral campaign already has $63,000 in contributions built over the past few years. SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL–ELECTION 2018–Backed by the city’s burgeoning Asian American demographic and already stocked campaign cash reserves, San Leandro Councilmember Benny… Read More ›
15TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICTThe biggest political campaign in the East Bay next June is wasting little time revving up its fundraising engine. The race in the 15th Assembly District already appeared to many local politicos as a early toss-up and a… Read More ›
Rep. Eric Swalwell, center, campaigning for Bryan Parker last spring. along with future candidate Tojo Thomas, right, who Swalwell later endorsed for the Castro Valley school board. Both lost. CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT |Despite periodic news reports placing East Bay… Read More ›
Clockwise from left: President Jimmy Carter; Sen. Barbara Boxer; Rep. Mike Honda; Ro Khanna. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT |ELECTION 2016 | The Democratic Party’s senior states-people are weighing-in on the 17th Congressional District today. Fresh off a campaign appearance last… Read More ›
Lena Tam: The Alameda Medium? ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL |ELECTION 2016 |Alameda City Council hopeful Lena Tam has people dying to support her campaign this fall. Her campaign Web site’s endorsement list includes three people who have passed away in recent… Read More ›
Bryan Parker, left, with Alameda County Supe Nate Miley at a forum in Castro Valley. ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | DISTRICT 4 |A day after announcing a major endorsement from East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell, upstart Alameda County supervisorial candidate… Read More ›
Rep. Mike Honda donning boxing gloves just weeks before Election Day in October 2014. PHOTO/Steven Tavares CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Above all else, Rep. Mike Honda’s ace card is his strong support from labor unions. With a round of… Read More ›
Rep. Mike Honda speaking to a voter Jan. 21 at a candidates forum in San Jose. PHOTO/Steven Tavares CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT |With the possibility the crucial Democratic Party endorsement may no longer be a certainty, Rep. Mike Honda’s campaign… Read More ›
SD7: Nancy Skinner and Sandre Swanson ACDEMS PRE-ENDORSEMENT |The cynics say the reward of vigorously vying to be the choice of the statewide Democratic Party merely amounts for the privilege of placing a graphical badge on their Website and subsequent… Read More ›
Rep. Mike Honda failed to gain two-thirds of Berryessa-North San Jose Democratic Club members needed for its endorsement. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICTRo Khanna’s seemingly perpetual upstart campaign to unseat Rep. Mike Honda may be gaining traction among some local grassroots… Read More ›
CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Rep. Mike Honda’s response to losing support of a labor union to Ro Khanna appeared breathless, maybe desperate. On Monday, the feeling was underscored with an astonishing roll out of new endorsements from five statewide… Read More ›
CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Rep. Mike Honda rolled out a list of four South Bay mayors Monday pledging support for his campaign in next year’s intraparty rematch with Ro Khanna in the Seventeenth Congressional District. The endorsements cover cities… Read More ›
SD9 candidate Nancy Skinner says she’s the candidate to beat. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 | Nancy Skinner’s campaign is declaring she is the clear favorite in next year’s highly-anticipated East Bay Ninth State Senate District race. The press release… Read More ›
ELECTION16 | There was a time not so long ago when the open seat in the East Bay’s Ninth State Senate District was billed as next year’s headliner. Three well-known former Assemblymembers with ties to the district went all-in. Then,… Read More ›
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, left, endorsed Nancy Skinner over another Democrat, Sandre Swanson. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 | Former East Bay Assemblymember Nancy Skinner received her highest-profile endorsement yet for the Ninth State Senate District. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said Monday… Read More ›
Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan said she did not believes her campaign could raise the needed $1.6 million in SD9. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 | Alameda County Supervisor Wilma is abandoning her bid for next year’s open state Senate race… Read More ›
Former Assemblymember Nancy Skinner’s campaign for SD9 has support of a quarter of the State Senate. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 | Less than nine months from a likely brutal June primary among three former state legislators in the East… Read More ›
Sandre Swanson, Wilma Chan and Nancy Skinner STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 | Sandre Swanson could have a big money problem in next year’s likely hard-fought June primary next year in the Ninth State Senate District. The early endorsement of… Read More ›
DEMOCRATIC PARTY | East Bay Assembly members fortified their positions of power within the state Democratic Party over the weekend with the election of nearly every member of their respective slates of delegates for the party convention in May. Seven… Read More ›
The San Francisco Chronicle has showed very little attention to Oakland’s mayoral race. Nevertheless, other local media outlets appear similarly confused over which candidate it should endorse this fall. OAKLAND | MAYOR | Six Bay Area news outlets, six different… Read More ›
Lena Tam ALAMEDA COUNTY | DEMOCRATS | BART Board of Director Robert Raburn often eschews driving automobiles for public transportation and his bicycle. But, when it comes to endorsing his re-election to the board following the divisive BART strike of… Read More ›
Joel Vanlandingham CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | So far, Joel Vanlandingham has been labeled the Republican candidate for the 17th Congressional District who, either entered into an illicit conspiracy with Ro Khanna and others to thwart the chances of another… Read More ›
MEDIA | ANALYSIS |The Bay Area News Groups version of political endorsements is here, or, better understood as an editorial staff of one filing out a page on an anti-worker edition of Mad Libs. On Wednesday it somewhat surprisingly passed… Read More ›
Swalwell said he leads all freshman Democrats in bills passed with one. CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT | Offering fun facts and figures meant to add beef to his flimsy patty of work has been a hallmark of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s first term…. Read More ›
HAYWARD | MAYOR | As more local political groups continue to shun Hayward mayoral candidates seeking their endorsement, it’s becoming clear the trio who voted to impose a five percent wage cut of city workers carry a torturous Scarlet Letter… Read More ›
Rep. Barbara Lee and State Sen. Ellen Corbett both receive CLF’s backing. PHOTO/Steven Tavares CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT | In a region boasting some of the strongest labor organizations in the country, the California Labor Federation issued a rebuke Thursday… Read More ›
Abel Guillen, left, during a candidate’s forum in 2012. Guillen announced Wednesday he’s running for the Oakland City Council and with the endorsement of his former opponent Rob Bonta, right. PHOTO/Shane Bond OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | DISTRICT 2 | Abel… Read More ›
Bonta’s Fundraising Drive | Nobody Wants To Run For Mayor In San Leandro | Swalwell OK With His Ethics CHAPTER 7 | In the fall of 2012, San Leandro Councilmember Jim Prola was gearing up for a likely winning re-election… Read More ›
Hayward City Manager Fran David, right, is seen by the union as one of the city’s hard line advocates for imposition. HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | LABOR | The city council of Hayward, a city once known as the most union-friendly… Read More ›
Calif. Sens. Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein CONGRESS 17 | California’s two Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer added their endorsements to Congressional District 17 Rep. Mike Honda’s, long list of growing endorsements in preparation for a potential battle with young… Read More ›
