Sandre Swanson during an endorsement meeting last year for the 9th state Senate. ALAMEDAAn unsuccessful run for the state Senate last year proved Sandre Swanson is not done with public service. Swanson confirmed Friday that he had strong interest for… Read More ›
Protesters in Berkeley last April. 9TH STATE SENATE DISTRICTBefore the events last week in Charlottesville brought national focus to skirmishes between white supremacists groups and counter-protesters, East Bay State Sen. Nancy Skinner‘s district, which prominently includes Berkeley, was the epicenter… Read More ›
ELECTION 2016 | Large anti-Donald Trump protests may be raging miles away in Oakland and other East Bay cities, but San Pablo’s Mayor Rich Kinney is interested in serving the president-elect. In a series of tweets last weekend, Kinney offered… Read More ›
Nancy Skinner won 60 percent of the vote Tuesday night in an impressive win over Sandre Swanson. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT |ELECTION 2016 |The East Bay is sending Nancy Skinner back to Sacramento following a two-year hiatus. Skinner, a… Read More ›
Some East Bay voters received an eight-page booklet from Nancy Skinner that looked like a children’s book. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 |ELECTION 2016 |Once upon a time there was a state Senate candidate with too much money to spend…… Read More ›
12 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY | Sometimes the Internet is not what it seems. For some, the person one perceives on the other end of an online interaction is not who they are in real life. It’s not uncommon for,… Read More ›
Former East Bay Assemblymembers Nancy Skinner and Sandre Swanson are vying for the Ninth State Senate District seat this November. MEET THE CANDIDATES Many enjoy bagging on Oakland politics, but every two years the city and surrounding areas produce some… Read More ›
Nancy Skinner (left) received more than $11,000 from local police unions during a four-day period last month, in her race against Sandre Swanson. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT |ELECTION 2016 |In the months that followed a wide-ranging East Bay police… Read More ›
24 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY |In the hours after Ro Khanna received news of a federal lawsuit filed Sept. 22 alleging his participation in a “modern-day Watergate” to illegally access Rep. Mike Honda‘s digital fundraising donor data, the Khanna’s initial… Read More ›
ELECTION 2016 | This year is a presidential election and all eyes will be on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. However, when it comes to down ballot races in the East Bay, this is not the most electrifying local election,… Read More ›
Sandre Swanson in Oakland last January. STATE SENATE | 9th DISTRICT |As a lonely Republican in the deep blue East Bay, former state Senate candidate Rich Kinney doesn’t have much to offer other than his help in cajoling reluctant conservatives… 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 ›
Few times in the campaign has Sandre Swanson been able to stand tall against Nancy Skinner. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 9 | According to the latest finance reports, the campaign of state Senate Ninth District candidate Sandre Swanson is nearly… Read More ›
State Sen. Loni Hancock addressing the Assembly Transportation Committee on Monday. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT |It appears coal won’t be traveling through a port terminal in the East Bay for the foreseeable future and state Sen. Loni Hancock hopes… Read More ›
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 ›
SD09 candidate Sandre Swanson and current office holder state Sen. Loni Hancock. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT |An independent expenditure committee, whose largest donors include oil and tobacco companies, has spent more than $138,000 in the last week in support… Read More ›
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21 DAYS TO PRIMARY DAY | Republican Assemblymember Catharine Baker has a big problem and its name is Donald J. Trump. In the purple-tinted Contra Costa County and Tri Valley 16th Assembly District, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is a… 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 ›
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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 ›
State Sen. Loni Hancock STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT | East Bay State Sen. Loni Hancock, like many progressives, had a difficult time holding their tongue as the national media and Republicans venerated former First Lady Nancy Reagan following her… Read More ›
Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley will face only the well-financed Bryan Parker in June. JUNE PRIMARY | Eight state and federal legislative races in the East Bay this June are guaranteed rematches in November; a Hayward city councilmember did not file… 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 | Nancy Skinner is apparently a very accomplished singer. Walking across the concourse at the San Jose Convention Center Friday afternoon, the Ninth State Senate District candidate broke into song. In fact, Skinner cut her own record in the… Read More ›
Wilma Chan, center, dropped out of the SD9 race last October. Now she’s endorsing Nancy Skinner. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT |Nancy Skinner’s bid for the East Bay’s Ninth State Senate District has attracted the support of a pivotal former… Read More ›
