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 ›
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CA17 PREVIEW: The rematch and rehash
Rep. Mike Honda and Ro Khanna are two of six candidates in the June congressional primary in District 17. Other candidates include Republicans Ron Cohen, Peter Kuo; Libertarian Kennita Watson; and San Jose Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio, also a Democrat. MEET… Read More ›
Rob Bonta’s assembly challenger is a Donald Trump delegate
Republican Roseann Slonsky-Breault was named a Trump delegate and is facing Assemblymember Rob Bonta in the June primary. ASSEMBLY | 18TH DISTRICT |Two years ago, Oakland Assemblymember Rob Bonta was opposed by a Republican who suggested an United Nations secret… Read More ›
VIDEO: Honda-Khanna CA17 Candidate Forum
CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Rep. Mike Honda confronted Ro Khanna about appealing to Republican donors, two other candidates attacked Khanna instead of the incumbent Mike Honda and Republican Peter Kuo showed his green energy credentials by holding up his solar… Read More ›
Honda escapes forum unscathed, but the field of candidates, instead, attack Khanna
CA17 candidates Pierluigi Oliverio, Rep. Mike Honda and Ro Khanna at the League of Women Voters candidate forum in Fremont. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT |The candidates in the 17th Congressional District race were out for blood at a candidates forum… Read More ›
CA17’s only pre-primary forum will be staged without an audience
Supporters for Ro Khanna and Rep. Mike Honda get whipped up in a frenzy following a candidates forum in April 2014 in Fremont. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT |The only time candidates for the nationally-watched 17th Congressional District race featuring Democrats… Read More ›
CA17: GOP candidate says he’s backing Trump; interested in being his delegate
Silicon Valley GOP congressional candidate Ron Cohen wants to make the South Bay great, again. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Seventeenth Congressional District Republican candidate Ron Cohen says he needs to differentiate himself from his opponents in the seven-person June… Read More ›
LISTEN! East Bay Citizen Podcast with CA17 candidates Peter Kuo, Ron Cohen
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SD10 PREVIEW: An Easy Dem Win Today, With Hints of a GOP Revival Later
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 ›
DOWN BALLOT: Oct. 30, 2014, 5 Days Until Election Day
OAKLAND MAYOR At the Oakland Sports Forum Wednesday evening at the Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church, most of the 15 mayoral candidate s weighed-in on the future of the city’s professional sports franchises and where they might play for the next… Read More ›
Tesla’s Decision to Open Factory in Nevada Puts a Charge into SD10 Race
SD10 opponents Assemblymember Bob Wiekcowski and Peter Kuo STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 10 | In the months since the June primary Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski’s campaign has been virtually silent. With Republican challenger Peter Kuo also retreating to his corner of… Read More ›
12 East Bay Races to Watch This Fall
FALL ELECTION PREVIEW | The November General Election will not go down as one of the most exciting political seasons in history. The statewide ballot is devoid of a contested race. And it’s pretty much the same on the federal… Read More ›
Oakland Garbage Contract Hangs Over San Leandro Council, Elections
My story in this week’s East Bay Express on the fallout from Oakland’s garbage contract pinching into San Leandro’s general fund to the tune of around $500,000 annually is reverberating through the city administration and council. It may also end… Read More ›
Khanna Makes a Sly Opening Statement for Attracting Moderates, GOP Voters
CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | A Santa Clara County activist’s praise for Ro Khanna’s help in avoiding a newly built public library from becoming an embarrassing white elephant, may represent the campaign utilizing a bit of sleight of hand to… Read More ›
With the Primary in the Rear Mirror, East Bay Campaigns Prepare for November
JUNE PRIMARY | ROUNDUP | Voters in the East Bay and across the state skipped the June primary in droves last week. In Alameda County, less than one-quarter of registered voters cast ballots in the election. The results also indicated… Read More ›
Wieckowski’s Campaign Thinks Andrew Breitbart is Alive
Bob Wieckowski, Peter Kuo STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | A day after Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski cruised to an eight-point win in the June primary, his campaign was already picking a fight with his November opponent, Peter Kuo, while erroneously… Read More ›
Wieckowski Tops State Senate Field; Hayashi Again Falls Short
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 ›
Will Peter Kuo Play a Funeral Dirge for Mary Hayashi’s Political Aspirations?
STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | Republican Peter Kuo has been toting around his violin recently. The surprising 10th State Senate District candidate who, some believe, has a good shot at finishing second in Tuesday’s June Primary, is also an… Read More ›
Primary Questions: SD-10 Preview
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 ›
A New Website in SD-10: Down Ballot, 5 Days to Election Day
STATE SENATE DISTRICT 10 The pantheon of negative campaign websites grows. Mary Hayashi’s campaign released FrackBob.com today. The latest entry follows MugShotMary and BobProtectedRapists. The site, however, is solely issue based (other than the web address) on Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski’s opposition… Read More ›
SD-10 June Primary Preview: A Battle Royale in the East Bay
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 ›
Down Ballot: May 20, 2014, 14 days to Election Day
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 ›
Down Ballot: May 19, 2014, 15 days from Election Day
CONGRESS DISTRICT 15 A second television ad from Rep. Eric Swalwell hit the airwaves featuring a game board evoking Monopoly and Wheel of Fortune. The spot claims his opponent, State Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett, missed over 900 votes while in… Read More ›
Kuo Calls on Wieckowski, Hayashi to End Intense Negative Campaigning
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 ›
Hayashi Says Poll Shows Her Leading Wieckowski, Field in 10th State Senate
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 ›
League of Women Voters Apologize for Neglecting to Invite GOP Candidate
Republican Peter Kuo, right, at a forum in Fremont April 9. STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | While his opponents in the State Senate 10th District race were busy at candidate’s forum last Friday night in Fremont, Republican Peter Kuo was… Read More ›
The Case for Taxing Property Owners Who Leave Their Storefronts Empty
SD10 Republican ‘Splintering’ Dems | Superintendent Candidate’s BF? | Forum Changes Working CHAPTER 12 | There’s a book making waves among economists named Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In part, the tome by Thomas Picketty rising in influence since its release… Read More ›
State Senate Candidates Offer Red Meat to All Parts of the Political Spectrum
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 ›
Hayashi on State Pensions: ‘There is no Problem’; Faults Banks for Budget Mess
Former Assemblymember Mary Hayashi speaking at a candidate’s forum for the 10th State Senate District Wednesday evening at the Fremont City Council chambers. PHOTO/Steve Tavares STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | State Senate candidate Mary Hayashi said talk of California’s… Read More ›
State Senate Candidate Kuo Continues Rapid Rise in the Republican Party
Peter Kuo with Republican South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, center. STATE SENATE | 10TH DISTRICT | The rise of Peter Kuo may be a sign the California Republican Party is done with sticking its collective heads in the sand when it… Read More ›