It’s not only the assembly candidates emptying their pockets, but also Independent Expenditure Committees.
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ALCO prosecutor to Republican Central Committee: Don’t vote for Price
With just weeks before the June 5 primary race for Alameda County District Attorney, supporters for the incumbent DA are reaching out to the local GOP.
Buffy Wicks again leads AD15 in fundraising as primary race heads toward stretch run
AD15 Democrat Buffy Wicks has $323,000 for the final month of the primary campaign. CAMPAIGN FINANCE–ELECTION 2018– The fundraising juggernaut that is 15th Assembly District candidate Buffy Wicks shows no signs of abetting. Campaign finance reports released last Thursday show… Read More ›
AD16: Catharine Baker wins re-election over Cheryl Cook-Kallio
An expected close race turned into a nearly 12 point win over Cheryl Cook-Kallio. ASSEMBLY | 16TH DISTRICT |ELECTION 2016 |In successive elections, East Bay Republican Assemblymember Catharine Baker has now beaten back some of the most powerful liberal institutions… Read More ›
Renters’ groups file FPPC complaint against landlord lobby’s deceptive mailers
Tenant activists from Alameda, Richmond, and Oakland speak in front of the East Bay Rental Housing Association offices in Hayward. RENT CONTROL |ELECTION 2016 |Renters’ groups representing the six Bay Area cities slated to vote on various forms of rent… Read More ›
‘Real Rent Control for Alameda’ group is backed by island’s top property manager
Alameda voters received this mailer over the weekend opposing Measure M1, the more stringent rent control initiative on the fall ballot. ALAMEDA RENT CONTROL |ELECTION 2016 |Thousands of renters in Alameda know the understated storefront on Webster Street belonging to island… Read More ›
BEST OF THE REST: East Bay Assembly, State Senate, Congressional Preview
Assemblymember Rob Bonta ASSEMBLY | In the East Bay, the era of very few competitive Assembly races is upon us. Four of the six races Tuesday feature Democratic incumbents with a likely stranglehold on their respective seats through at least… Read More ›
IE supporting Miley sends hit piece just a few days before Election Day
A hit piece was sent last weekend attacking Bryan Parker for lacking experience. ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | DISTRICT 4 |Too little, too late? The independent expenditure committee supporting Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley’s campaign released a hit piece arriving… Read More ›
SD9 PREVIEW: Another fall race pitting progressive against each other
MEET THE CANDIDATES Very few legislative races in the state this June have candidates with as much experience as this East Bay state Senate primary. Nancy Skinner and Sandre Swanson are known quantities in the district that covers areas from… Read More ›
ALCOD4 PREVIEW: Is a monumental upset in the cards?
Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley faces Bryan Parker in next week’s winner-takes-all June election. MEET THE CANDIDATES Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley has represented District Four since 2001. Before that, he was an Oakland city council member. Miley’s years of… Read More ›
Oil and tobacco-funded IE spends a quick $138,000 in support of Sandre Swanson
SD09 candidate Sandre Swanson and current office holder state Sen. Loni Hancock. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT |An independent expenditure committee, whose largest donors include oil and tobacco companies, has spent more than $138,000 in the last week in support… Read More ›
IE supporting Nate Miley is running a radio ad that targets Pleasanton voters
The IE supporting Nate Miley is running a radio spot three times-a-day in the Tri Valley. ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | DISTRICT 4Pleasanton Families for Supervisor Nate Miley, the Independent Expenditure Committee formed earlier this month in support of the… Read More ›
Email suggests Miley’s re-election campaign and IE supporting him is improperly coordinating efforts
A mailer from Pleasanton Families for Supervisor Nate Miley, an IE supporting his re-election. ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | DISTRICT 4 |Earlier this month, a mysterious independent expenditures committee named “Pleasanton Families for Supervisor Nate Miley” surfaced without much funding… Read More ›
5 BEST EAST BAY PRIMARY RACE IN 2016: #5 16TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT
ELECTION16 | The rise of Republican Catharine Baker in the Tri Valley’s Sixteenth Assembly District as a competent and potentially very effective legislator appeared to have flummoxed the local Democrats in Contra Costa and Alameda County. With every rock in… Read More ›
Susan Bonilla will not challenge Steve Glazer to a state Senate rematch next year
Steve Glazer defeated Susan Bonilla in the hard-fought SD7 race last May by 10 points. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 7 | Nearly five months after Susan Bonilla fell short in a grueling and often acrimonious intraparty special election against Steve… Read More ›
Another Wieckowski aide loses a winnable city council race
Wieckowski aide Tim Orozco lost his San Jose City Council race Tuesday despite $232,000 in support from the South Bay AFL-CIO. Orozco loses in San Jose; Fernandez failed in Hayward STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 10 | Even with the pocket… Read More ›
Hayward may seek greater campaign finance transparency
Hayward Councilmembers Greg Jones and Al Mendall may be targeted by unions for their vote to impose a wage cut on city workers. Some CMs may fear union reprisal in 2016 election HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | With an eye toward a… Read More ›
SD7 Election Preview: Which special interest will reign supreme?
Orinda Mayor Steve Glazer and Assemblymember Susan Bonila MEET THE CANDIDATES Susan Bonilla represents almost half of the voters in Seventh District as an Assemblymember representing a portion of Contra Costa County. She is also a former high school teacher… Read More ›
Campaign nerves fray in contested State Senate race along with spendthrift IEs
STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT | Big Labor was angling to slap a campaign finance complaint this week against the conservative Independent Expenditure (IE) committee backed by the Koch Brothers for failing to report the amount of money it spent… Read More ›
Attack ad against Susan Bonilla echoes another used effectively last year
New attack ad against Susan Bonilla is paid for by a conservative IE so conservative it opposes some of the most conservative pols in the country. STATE SENTATE | DISTRICT 7 | It seems being a member of the California… Read More ›
Glazer wins SD7 special election; will face Bonilla in May runoff
STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT | Voters in the 7th State Senate District, at least the few who participated in Tuesday’s special election, gave centrist Democrat Steve Glazer a seven-point win over Assemblymember Susan Bonilla. Since no candidate attained a… Read More ›
SD7 Special Election Primary Preview: Can Glazer Reach The Top Two?
State Senate District 7 candidates: Orinda Mayor Steve Glazer, former Assembymember Joan Buchanan and Assemblymember Susan Bonilla. MEET THE CANDIDATES As an assemblymember, Susan Bonilla already represents almost half of the voters in the State Senate’s 7th District. The former high school… Read More ›
Campaign Notes: State Senate 7th District Special Election
STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT | There are four mostly moderate Democrats running in a state senate district race with an electorate typically a tad left of center. That’s just too much for the Alameda County Republican Party. On Friday,… Read More ›
Shady state senate campaign tricks has ties to teachers’ union
Joan Buchanan’s state senate was endorsed by the California Teachers Association. STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT | Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters has been to many political rodeos in California. In a column Monday, Walters laid out a very cynical, but truthful… Read More ›
SD7: East Bay voters take part in yet another rough and tumble election
14th District Assemblymember Susan Bonilla and former 16th District Assemblymember Joan Buchanan at a forum in January. STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT | Last fall, voters in Contra Costa and Alameda counties endured one of the most aggressive, expensive, and odd… Read More ›
Thurmond bill seeks to outlaw smokeless tobacco at MLB ballparks in the state
Assemblymember Tony Thurmond at a Sacramento Park Monday announcing his bill to ban smokeless tobacco in Major League ballparks in California. PHOTO/@TonyThurmond ASSEMBLY | 15TH DISTRICT | Assemblymember Tony Thurmond wants to take the spittoon out of Big League clubhouses and ballparks…. Read More ›
Labor-backed IE spending money in SD7 on Republican who dropped out
STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 7 | Steve Glazer urged his supporters Sunday night to “Follow the $” after learning a political action committee typically backed by labor is spending thousands to back the lone Republican in the State Senate 7th… Read More ›
AD16: Republican Catharine Baker Poised To Turn Blue Assembly Seat Red
ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | Republican upstart Catharine Baker may be causing quite a few headaches for Assembly Democrats Wednesday night. The Tri Valley attorney leads Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti in the 16th Assembly District race by less than four… Read More ›
AD16 PREVIEW: If You’ve Got the Money, Honey, I’ve Got the Time
Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti and Tri Valley attorney Catharine Baker. MEET THE CANDIDATES Catherine Baker, you are the only hope for Republicans in the East Bay on Nov. 4. The first-time candidate is not only the local party’s best prospect,… Read More ›
In One Day, IE Lays Out $622,500 In Support of Catharine Baker
Catharine Baker’s lashed back at Tim Sbranti for a mailer she says purposefully misleads voters in the 16th Assembly District. ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | Spirit of Democracy California, a right-wing independent expenditure committee believes the battleground 16th Assembly District… Read More ›
