Alameda Councilmember Frank Matarrese ALAMEDA CITY COUNCILSeemingly from the day Trish Herrera Spencer was elected Alameda mayor in 2014, the line of challengers seeking to make her a one-termer began jockeying for position. Nearly three years later, Councilmember Marilyn Ezzy… Read More ›
Alameda Councilmember Tony Daysog during the Dec. 6 council meeting. ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL |Just weeks before Election Day, some Alameda voters received highly negative mailers against Councilmember Tony Daysog. However, the mailers equating Daysog to Donald Trump and accusing him… Read More ›
A Ro Khanna mailer tailored to women voters in the 17th District contains a critical misspelling. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT |ELECTION 2016 |Whichever computer the Ro Khanna campaign was using to allegedly mine fundraising data from Rep. Mike Honda is… Read More ›
Hayward Councilmember Elisa Marquez has the most unencumbered available cash in the 10-person June council election. HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | In a place like Hayward where daily reporting on City Hall is non-existent and community apathy is high, candidate for… Read More ›
Rep. Mike Honda’s campaign called Cohen’s complaint “petty politics.” CONGRESS | DISTRICT 17 | Questions over Rep. Mike Honda’s congressional mailings to constituents are again political fodder for the third time in more than a year. Ron Cohen, a Republican who… Read More ›
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 ›
Outrage, not jocularity, is how a potential Ro Khanna rematch versus Rep. Mike Honda can turn nappy time into a winning strategy. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Today is National Napping Day in honor of the hour lost last weekend for daylight… Read More ›
Republican Michaela Hertle dropped out of her State Senate race just days after qualifying for the ballot, but a independent expenditure group backed by labor has spent more than $60,000 on two mailers, including the one above. Is it help… Read More ›
Is this the same person? Susan Bonilla’s State Senate campaign sent a mailer last week featuring former Rep. Ellen Tauscher using a much younger photo than the current version, on the right. A second Bonilla mailer shows a more mature… Read More ›
CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Former South Bay Rep. Ernie Konnyu is pissed. This week, Rep. Mike Honda’s campaign attempted to link Konnyu, a divisive Republican representative who served the area in the 1980s, to Ro Khanna in a negative… Read More ›
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 ›
The PAC Working for Us sent two mailers last month, above and below, that offered racial stereotypes against India. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | It was an especially steely comment as far as campaign press releases in mid-June go from… Read More ›
Rep. Mike Honda, Ro Khanna and Joel Vanlandingham at a May 3 forum in Fremont. CONGRESS | DISTRICT 17 | Ro Khanna reiterated his desire for five monthly debates from now to the November Election in a letter Tuesday to… Read More ›
Rep. Eric Swalwell, State Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett and Hugh Bussell. THE CANDIDATES All you really know about Rep. Eric Swalwell’s first 18 months in Congress is he has compiled 350,000 frequent flier miles traveling from the East Bay… Read More ›
Kamala Harris attended a fundraiser Tuesday for Rep. Mike Honda. PHOTO/Shane Bond STATE SENATE DISTRICT 10 As Democrats Bob Wieckowski and Mary Hayashi continue sniping at each other, Republican Peter Kuo attended a memorial Tuesday for one of the South… Read More ›
Ro Khanna, Rep. Mike Honda CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Ro Khanna’s congressional campaign filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics Wednesday charging incumbent Rep. Mike Honda with sending taxpayer-paid mailers that could be construed by voters as… Read More ›
CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT | Rep. Eric Swalwell has spent $190,945 on mail to constituents in the 15th Congressional District since being sworn-in to office in January 2013. The figure greatly outpaces the spending of all other Bay Area members… 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//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | The Sacramento Political Action Committee with it sights set on thwarting Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi’s smooth sailing campaign for Alameda County supervisor has a rather comical and viciously biting name, but no money, as of… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | Sometime before Richard Valle was appointed to replace disgraced Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer in June, Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi was already lurking in the background, gauging political support in advance of her likely campaign… 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//ASSEMBLY 18 NOTESMay 31, 2012 | Alameda Vice Mayor Rob Bonta may be well on his way to winning the California primary in the 18th Assembly District, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t laying the early groundwork for the November general… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 18May 28, 2012 | Voters in Oakland and its neighbors in the 18th Assembly District has been inundated in recent weeks with uncommonly negative campaign mailers against candidate Joel Young, but who is paying for these pieces and who… Read More ›
