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 ›
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors reign as champions of local entrenched poltics may come to end on June 7. JUNE PRIMARY PREVIEW |1. I think Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley is scared to the point that he cries at… Read More ›
SD9 candidates (clockwise): Nancy Skinner, Sandre Swanson, Katherine Welch, Rich Kinney. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT | Nancy Skinner is maintaining a cash reserve more than 10 times larger than Sandre Swanson, her top opponent this June and likely in… Read More ›
Former Assemblymembers Nancy Skinner, right, and Sandre Swanson in Alameda. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT |Regardless of how voters split hairs between the far left ideologies of the top two candidates running for California’s Senate District 9 seat — former… Read More ›
State Senate candidates: Nancy Skinner, Sandre Swanson, Rich Kinney and Katherine Welch. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT | While hobnobbing for her June primary campaign during the California Democratic State Convention in San Jose, former Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner revealed a… Read More ›
Katherine Welch in Oakland last January. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT | Some voters in the Ninth State Senate District, one of the most progressive areas in the entire state, might be skeptical about candidate Katherine Welch following a new… Read More ›
Current Ninth State Senate District candidates, clockwise, Nancy Skinner, Sandre Swanson, Katherine Welch, and Rich Kinney. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT |Nancy Skinner’s internal polling shows her campaign for the Ninth State Senate District would easily win the four-person June… Read More ›
State Senate candidate Katherine Welch, and her father, former GE chairman Jack Welch. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT | Katherine Welch has a famous and wealthy father, but don’t expect him to write a check to his daughter’s upstart state… Read More ›
SD9 Democratic candidate Katherine Welch STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 |If you were wondering how long it would take for elements of Donald Trump’s brash anti-government campaign strategy to trickle down to the local level, take a look at the… Read More ›
State Senate candidate Nancy Skinner raised more than $277,000 during the past six months. SD9 ALCOD4 CAMPAIGN FINANCE |Former Assemblymember Nancy Skinner of Berkeley reported that she has nearly $1.1 million in cash reserves in her state Senate campaign account,… Read More ›
State Senate candidate Nancy Skinner speaking to Democratic Party delegates Saturday in Oakland. SD9 PRE-ENDORSEMENT |The East Bay’s hotly-contested Ninth State Senate District race between Nancy Skinner and Sandre Swanson will be waged without either carrying the banner of the… 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 ›
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 ›
Nancy Skinner STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 | All things considered, Nancy Skinner should be feeling good about her chances next year in the East Bay’s Ninth State Senate District. She has a considerable money advantage over fellow Democrat Sandre… 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 ›
