2017 YEAR IN EAST BAY POLITICSEast Bay residents didn’t exactly head into the new year with hopes of prosperity and self-renewal. President-Elect Donald Trump’s shadow was already darkening every door in the East Bay, especially those griped with fear in… Read More ›
Bill Lockyer and Nadia Lockyer ALAMEDA COUNTYFormer Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer wrote in a posting on Facebook Wednesday morning that she has filed for legal separation from her husband, Bill Lockyer. Last month, Nadia Lockyer was arrested in Tuolomne… Read More ›
Bill and Nadia Lockyer ALAMEDA COUNTYFormer Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, whose brief tenure ended after she resigned due to drug and alcohol addiction, was arrested Thursday in Tuolomne County for spousal abuse. according to the Union Democrat. Nadia Lockyer is… Read More ›
Nadia Lockyer has made allegations against her husband Bill Lockyer on Facebook in past. ALAMEDA COUNTYFormer Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer wrote an alarming message on Facebook Sunday that sounded to some as a suicide note while briefly alarming her… Read More ›
//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3827654/height/250/width/450/theme/legacy/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/ Hayward School Trustee Dr. Luis Reynoso EPISODE 9 | There were fireworks earlier this month at a Hayward School Board of Trustees meeting when Superintendent of Schools Stan “Data” Dobbs verbally abused and allegedly make contact with one or… Read More ›
Alameda County Supervisors Scott Haggerty and Richard Valle during a board meeting in 2013. PHOTO/Shane Bonda ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | In the East Bay, a seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is the closest thing to a… Read More ›
Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison and Ronald McDonald LOCKYERS | Former California state treasurer and wife who hit the headlines over her ‘meth-fueled affair with man she met in rehab’ announce they are expecting a baby (UK Daily Mail) Basically sums… Read More ›
Bill Lockyer, 74, is going to be a daddy, again. PHOTO/Shane Bond ALAMEDA COUNTY | The real life soap opera that is the Lockyer family is apparently bidding for higher ratings just in time for May Sweeps. The San Francisco… 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 ›
Newark Councilmember Ana Apodaca will not seek re-election. NEWARK CITY COUNCIL | Ana Apodaca, a two-term Newark council member who unsuccessfully sought appointment two years ago to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, will not seek re-election to her seat this… Read More ›
ASSEMBLY | 25TH DISTRICT | State Attorney General Kamala Harris has recently been hot on the heels of so-called revenge porn operators who post sexually-explicit images of people to a Web site for the means of embarrassing them. Often the… Read More ›
Bill Lockyer at the Calif. Democratic State Convention last April. PHOTO/Shane Bond CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT | Bill Lockyer’s imprimatur is not what it once was, but the state treasurer still has loads of money and liberal contacts in the 15th Congressional… Read More ›
Nadia Lockyer ALAMEDA COUNTY | Nadia Lockyer never ceases to amaze Alameda County. Just when you think a blanket of normalcy has arrive in her treacherous saga from county supervisor to stints in rehab for alcohol and drug treatment, there is… Read More ›
Supervisor Richard Valle last November 2012 in Union City. PHOTO/Matt Santos ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | Being an Alameda County supervisor is a tough job. As the face of many county social services, their decisions often have direct consequences on their constituent’s… Read More ›
Nadia Lockyer in better times, if you can believe it? ALAMEDA COUNTY DEMOCRATS | The annual Alameda County Democratic Party dinner is meant to confer a sense of togetherness. We’re all in this together. Nevermind the opposing party’s presence in this… Read More ›
SUNDAY COLUMN | Despite your party affiliation or disdain for his last few years in office, there is no doubt Lockyer is one of the East Bay’s greatest political minds ever. Lockyer this week announced he will retire after serving… Read More ›
ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS//GRAY LAWSUIT | The office of Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty was a den of masculine sexual bravado and hostility towards women, including against those who served with him on the Board of Supervisors, says his former chief… Read More ›
ALAMEDA COUNTY BOS//LAWSUIT | Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty directed county employees to work on his re-election campaign instead of doing their jobs, used the county sheriff to cover-up an alleged arrest and received numerous kickbacks in return for his support,… Read More ›
Prelude to 2014: Rep. Eric Swalwell and State Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett greet each other Mar. 21 at the Eden Area United Democratic Campaign St. Patrick’s Day dinner in Hayward. PHOTO/Shane Bond ALAMEDA COUNTY//DEMOCRATS | The Eden Area United… Read More ›
PHOTO/Mark Salinas-Facebook SUNDAY COLUMN | We hear quite a bit about shopping locally from our public officials and supporting commerce in Alameda County, but when it comes to one of the biggest and most popular assets in the region, the… Read More ›
FINAL WORD ON 2012//ESSAY | This was the year East Bay politicians learned there was always a second chance for their errors. Not because they deserved that uniquely American second act at redemption, but because the political establishment has no mechanism for… Read More ›
2012 YEAR IN REVIEW | What a year it was for the East Bay Citizen. Through hard-hitting coverage of the 2012 election season you could not find anywhere else in the Bay Area news media to the unfortunate, yet glorious,… Read More ›
INSIDE THE STORIES OF 2012 | Curiously, Nadia Lockyer saved her biggest announcements this year for quasi-holidays. She entered rehab for drug and alcohol dependency on Valentine’s Day last February and offered her resignation from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors… Read More ›
“You just wait until my campaign is over. I’m going to find you and beat your (expletive) (expletive), you (expletive).” –Joel Young, former 18th Assembly candidate, to an aide for Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan at the Make Westing bar in Oakland,… 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 ›
1. San Leandro Councilman-elect Benny Lee agrees to a policy during a candidates forum, begins to describes why he supports it, but then asks, “Wait, what is that?” To be fair, when the moderator asked the other candidates what the audience-generated… Read More ›
01.12Fremont Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski starts 2012 with a resolution asking Congress to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Citizens United decision. The bill, co-authored with Assemblyman Michael Allen passes in July and represents a huge win for Wieckowski’s growing credibility among… 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 ›
ELECTION ‘12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DISTRICT 2 | Even as the Alameda County Board of Supervisors enacted limits on campaign fundraising last year, they never imagined a candidate with as many connections as Mary Hayashi. A large billboard towering over Foothill Boulevard… Read More ›
