Assemblymembers Rob Bonta and Bill Quirk won easy re-election Tuesday night. ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 18/20 | What a difference two years makes. Rob Bonta and Bill Quirk each won election to the State Assembly in 2012 following two of the closest… Read More ›
Asms. Rob Bonta and Bill Quirk. ASSEMBLY//CAMPAIGN FINANCE | East Bay Assemblymembers Rob Bonta and Bill Quirk both won election to the Legislature last year. While Bonta quickly moved to the top tier of Democratic legislators in the lower house, Quirk… Read More ›
Bill Quirk’s son, Ian, on the left. PHOTO/Matthew Reamer, SFBG ASSEMBLY | Assemblyman Bill Quirk’s dour demeanor has been written to death, but his son definitely does not take after his infamously straight-laced father. In the Feb. 13 San Francisco… Read More ›
DEMOCRATS | The 12-person Democratic Party convention delegation from the 18th Assembly District was envisioned to be a group solely under the imprimatur of Assemblyman Rob Bonta. In fact, 11 of the 12 men and women selected last Sunday in Alameda… Read More ›
10.12Mary Hayashi unleashes a barrage of attacks on Richard Valle eliciting no response from the practicing Buddhist. Supporters of Valle and haters of Hayashi go nuts urging him to go on the attack armed with her shoplifting conviction, but he… Read More ›
07.12The first sign of campaign upheaval almost always contains elements of a shake up in staff. After major blowouts over the past two months, Pete Stark replaces his campaign manager Alex Tourk with Sharon Cornu. The local labor stalwart begins… Read More ›
04.12Eric Swalwell gets much-deserved attention for his poignantly retro reformulation of Pete Stark’s 1972 mini-debate with George P. Miller. Hoping to play off the end of an era theme Stark used 40 years ago, the mock-up cements the potent theme… Read More ›
Eric Swalwell ERIC SWALWELL What can you say? The kid shocked the entire political establishment in the East Bay. Through hard work and boats load of good luck, namely, his opponent’s astonishing self-destruction, Swalwell is a United States representative. How did… Read More ›
| ASSEMBLY 20 | Assembly candidate Dr. Jennifer Ong Nov. 3 in Union City. PHOTO/MATT SANTOS msantosphotographer.com [UPDATED, 3:20 p.m.] Part of Dr. Jennifer Ong’s attempt last week to make her support of Proposition 30 clear to voters was a… Read More ›
| ASSEMBLY 20 | When voters peruse their election handbook searching for candidates’ statement from a host of different races, they might notice one major candidate conspicuously missing. Dr. Jennifer Ong says the lack of a candidate’s statement, often viewed as… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20 | Just days before voters head to the polls Tuesday, 20th Assembly District candidate Dr. Jennifer Ong finally announced her endorsement of Proposition 30. Ong’s unwillingness to fully support the governor’s sales tax initiative had been, until… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20 PREVIEW The Sport of Kings is a good analogy for the race for the Hayward-dominated 20th Assembly District. Former Hayward Councilman Bill Quirk is a sturdy thoroughbred that favors running a race from the front of the… Read More ›
The East Bay Citizen’s Steven Tavares and Shane Bond examine the race in the 20th Assembly District and its increasingly combative tenor. The money is pouring in and the rhetoric is getting hot! Press play!
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20 | In recent weeks the 20th Assembly District 20 race took a turn toward negative when hit pieces against Bill Quick were delivered to mail boxes courtesy of Californians Allied for Patient Protection (CAPP), an independent expenditure committee, who have been adamant… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//CAMPAIGN FINANCE | The final pre-election finance reports for the East Bay’s Assembly District’s 18 and 20 follow a consistent trend: less money in Oakland and breathtaking spending in Hayward. ASSEMBLY 18 Alameda Vice Mayor Rob Bonta goes into the final… Read More ›
Dr. Jennifer Ong ELECTION ‘12//ASSEMBLY | Dr. Jennifer Ong, one of two Democrats facing each other in the 20th Assembly District next month, broke the half-million dollar mark in support from independent expenditures this week. Ong, who is facing former Hayward… Read More ›
ELECTION’12//CAMPAIGN FINANCE | State Assembly voters in nearly the entire East Bay will go to the ballot box next month without a single Republican to choose from. The existence of two open primary races featuring two Democrats, though, has not… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//ASSEMBLY 20 | There are difference between Assembly candidate Bill Quirk and Dr. Jennifer Ong, after all, and they rest squarely on Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s sales tax increase on the November ballot. “There are real differences between… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//ASSEMBLY 20//ANALYSIS | When it comes to the newfangled open primary system, the appearance of two Democrats on the November ballot has proven to show early and expected signs of fraying upon the party fabric. This is happening in the… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20 | A new poll released last week shows optometrist Dr. Jennifer Ong gained a significant lead over former Hayward Councilman Bill Quirk in the 20th Assembly District race. Quirk, however, refutes the data. The poll, compiled by Global Strategy Group, states that after… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20 | The race for the second open Assembly seat in the East Bay, the 20th District centered in Hayward, is quite a bit similar to its cousin in the 18th. Both Bill Quirk and Dr. Jennifer Ong… Read More ›
Bill Quirk, Jennifer Ong ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20 | Bill Quirk’s campaign for Assembly District 20 released internal polling results revealing a double-digit lead over fellow Democratic competitor, optometrist Jennifer Ong. The poll’s results showed Quirk with 43 percent and Ong with 30 percent. The… Read More ›
Bill Quirk, Dr. Jennifer Ong ELECTION’ 12//ASSEMBLY 20 | As their campaign coffers dwindle, both candidates in the 20th Assembly District are increasingly turning to statewide political committees to fortify fundraising in this surprisingly costly campaign for Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi’s… Read More ›
ASSEMBLY 18 | Often times local political campaigns are run somewhat blindly without much real-time feedback to gauge whether one move is more beneficial than another. You have to keep your ear to the ground and feel your gut. One way… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20 ANALYSISJune 6, 2012 | Hayward Councilman Bill Quirk won the California primary Tuesday night for the 20th Assembly District, setting up a match up in the fall with a candidate who managed to energize voters in an… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20June 4, 2012 | Hayward Councilman Bill Quirk should be advised to compose an early victory speech for the 20th Assembly District Tuesday night. His campaign, like Rob Bonta’s in the nearby 18th, has rolled somewhat effortlessly towards… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20//PROFILE May 31, 2012 | As an 8-year-old boy Luis Reynoso watched in 1968 with conflicting feelings of awe and fear as authorities in Guadalajara beat back and bludgeoned students protesting in the streets. “There’s something wrong here…. Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20 NOTESMay 31, 2012 | Luis Reynoso, the lone GOP candidate in the race for the 20th Assembly District says the Republican Party should not endorse candidates outside of the party, even in races where none exist, like… Read More ›
Abel Guillen has spent $221,000 in AD18 this year, but only $46,000 left. ELECTION ’12//CAMPAIGN FINANCEMay 28, 2012 | With pre-primary campaign fundraising totals finalized last week, the local numbers show a definitive and expected trend. After spending months amassing… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 20May 28, 2012 | While independent expenditure committees throw loads of vitriol against Joel Young in the nearby 18th Assembly District, others hoping to shape the race in the 20th District are sending lucrative love letters to Dr. Jennifer Ong… Read More ›
