Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf won’t likely face a credible candidate for re-election next year but SEIU Local 1021 is acting like anopponent. OAKLANDFew East Bay labor unions are more aggressive than the Service Employees International Union Local 1021. Whether in… Read More ›
Peter Kuo finished a surprising second in the 2014 10th State Senate race that included Dems Bob Wieckowski and Mary Hayashi. STATEWIDE OFFICERepublican Peter Kuo ran for the state senate’s 10th District in 2014 and followed it up last year with a… Read More ›
75 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY |Is Mary Hayashi making some sort of a comeback? The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday that the disgraced former East Bay assemblymember who was caught stealing from Neiman Marcus in 2011 was the emcee at… Read More ›
Brian Williams should ask Mary Hayashi. The Brain Tumor Defense almost never works. ALAMEDA COUNTY | NBC’s suspended news anchor Brian Williams suggested he “misremembered” disputed events in Afghanistan because of a brain tumor, according to a lengthy expose of the network’s downtrodden… Read More ›
The Alameda County Republican Central Committee is looking for a new chairperson. ALAMEDA COUNTY GOP | Alameda County Republican Central Committee Chair Sue Caro helped register one of the local party’s biggest victories in years following the election last November… Read More ›
APRIL Joe Tuman speaks to an audience at Laney College in Oakland. >>>The first major gathering of Oakland’s quickly growing mayoral field meet at Temple Sinai to discuss one issue—likely the most vexing of the campaign—public safety. >>>With two months… Read More ›
Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski is almost a sure thing to win election Tuesday to the State Senate. ELECTION DAY ’14 | ANALYSIS | Election Day has become perverse. Big money is again flowing to Assembly races in East Bay just as they… Read More ›
Democrat Bob Wieckowski and Republican Peter Kuo. MEET THE CANDIDATES After serving two terms in the State Assembly’s 25th District, Bob Wieckowski is looking to take the next step to the upper house of the Legislature. The 10th District’s latest boundaries… Read More ›
Sen. Barbara Boxer backs Schaaf. OAKLAND MAYOR Councilmember Libby Schaaf received another high-profile endorsement Tuesday, this time, from U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. Earlier this month, Schaaf’s former boss, Gov. Jerry Brown, backed her campaign…Meanwhile, on Sunday morning, Parker received the support… Read More ›
McCammon’s 2006 Assembly race against Mary Hayashi was notable for its vitriol. ALAMEDA COUNTY | Bill McCammon, a former Alameda County fire chief and head of the the East Bay Regional Communication System Authority, died in his sleep Monday morning… Read More ›
One of the few occasions when I was attempting to surreptitiously keep an eye on former Hayward Mayor Michael Sweeney’s public dealings, otherwise known as a photo bomb. PHOTO/Natalia Aldana Michael Sweeney ended three non- consecutive terms as Hayward’s mayor… Read More ›
ELLEN CORBETT Absolutely nobody predicted Corbett would finish behind the perfunctory Republican candidate in the 15th Congressional District. Few thought she could unseat Rep. Eric Swalwell in November, either, but now she won’t even have the chance. In hindsight, Corbett… Read More ›
STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | Mary Hayashi’s political future is gone. Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski’s may soon involve a seat in the State Senate. Meanwhile, Peter Kuo’s is just beginning. Wieckowski won the June primary in the 10th State Senate… Read More ›
Clockwise from left: Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski, Mary Hayashi, Audie Bock, Peter Kuo and Roman Reed. THE CANDIDATES We all know about Mary Hayashi’s past, but what is missing from this campaign is just how progressive a record she had in… Read More ›
STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | The most important event in one of this year’s most vicious primary races in the state did not occur in 2014, but on October 25, 2011. That was the day when then-Assemblymember Mary Hayashi… Read More ›
Free Credit in San Leandro | Who Will Win In Hayward? | Swalwell’s First Political Consultant CHAPTER 17 | Here’s the thing about Bob Wieckowski. He’s not who you think he is and whatever you might think about him is probably… Read More ›
CONGRESS DISTRICT 17 Which number will be higher? The number of votes Joel Vanlandingham receives or the number of words allotted to him by the corporate press? On Tuesday, Vanlandingham told the San Jose Mercury News he will move within the… Read More ›
STATE SENATE DISTRICT 10 Republican Peter Kuo is making many a Democrat in District 10 worried (and also excited). There is palpable buzz that he could possibly eek into the top two next June and at the expense, most likely,… Read More ›
Payback Is A… | San Leandro Mayoral Candidates | Could AD16 Be Flipped? CHAPTER 16 | How often do you see a Republican operative with a passion to help a Democrat win re-election? A few week’s back, I asked an… Read More ›
Peter Kuo STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT |When it comes to the political fisticuffs being played in the East Bay’s 10th State Senate District, Peter Kuo has laid low, but he emerged Tuesday—just three weeks before Election Day—calling on two… Read More ›
CHAPTER 15 | SD10: I think the MugshotMary Web site is despicable and totally deaf to half the electorate. I think a woman in the 10th District is nuts to pull the lever for Bob Wieckowski…I think Hayashi has consistently… Read More ›
Mary Hayashi STATE SENATE | 10th DISTRICT | Despite the bloody turn in the race for the East Bay’s 10th State Senate District seat, Mary Hayashi’s campaign says a poll shows she is leading Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski by percentage points,… Read More ›
Mary Hayashi STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | The primary race for the titillating 10th State Senate District could get even uglier. An independent expenditure committee named, “Californians For Integrity In Government Opposed To Hayashi For Senate 2014, Sponsored By… Read More ›
Honda-Khanna: Friends for Now | Big News in San Leandro? | Quan: Huh? What? CHAPTER 14 | The number of candidates hoping to be the next mayor of Oakland has reached 17, but the potential eighteenth entrant could have the… Read More ›
STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | Mary Hayashi is taking her state senate district opponent’s hard-hitting Website released last weekend and upping the ante with an equally biting rejoinder. The Hayashi campaign released BobProtectedRapists.com Friday afternoon to highlight a March… Read More ›
STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | ANALYSIS | Mary Hayashi said she was ready to discuss real issues at the beginning of a recorded interview with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board. The focus though started with another round of questions… Read More ›
Bob Wieckowski, Mary Hayashi STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski is coming out punching. His campaign released a Web site this weekend dedicated to 10th State Senate District opponent Mary Hayashi’s three year old shoplifting incident. The… Read More ›
A Tucker in Wieckowski and Swalwell’s Camp | Bock Bopped | Union Buddy in Hayward? CHAPTER 13 | Ro Khanna has the cash to literally buy a Super Bowl ad, but he didn’t. However, his campaign for the 17th Congressional… Read More ›
Bob Wieckowski, Mary Hayashi STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | When the ball was teed up for Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski to knock out of the park, he instead, asked for an intentional walk. On Saturday, during its endorsement meeting, the… Read More ›
Candidates for the 10th State Senate District, left to right at the dais: Roman Reed, Audie Bock, Peter Kuo, Mary Hayashi. Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski was absent for the forum at Fremont City Hall. PHOTO/Steven Tavares STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT… Read More ›
