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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL | Nearly two years ago, East Bay resident John Henneberry sat lonely and patiently at the San Lorenzo Library waiting for a soul willing to just listen to his proposal to right the wrongs of President George… 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 ›
Best Dressed East Bay Politicians Mary Hayashi in Oct. 2011. Mary Hayashi – No joke! Who, other than Hayashi, could have the balls to show up for her hearing for shoplifting from Neiman Marcus dressed to the nines while… 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 | 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 ›
ELECTION ‘12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon reiterated Thursday morning his office had the goods on Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi following her then-felony shoplifting charge last year. Appearing on KGO’s Ronn Owens radio program, Gascon said… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALAMEDA COUNTY SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi and appointed Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle are nearly neck and neck in fundraising for the District 2 supervisorial seat, according to recently released campaign finance reports. Hayashi barely scraped past Valle with… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi lobbed the first of many direct attacks at appointed Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle Wednesday night at the League of Women Voters forum when she criticized the supervisor of accepting a raise… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | The hardscrabble fight between Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi and Supervisor Richard Valle for District 2 has oddly been missing the largest target for attack of all–Hayashi’s sordid tale of shoplifting $2,450 worth of clothes from Neiman… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALCO DISTRICT 2 | Mary Hayashi is a fighter. So, it shouldn’t be surprising the only East Bay politician who rivals Nadia Lockyer’s huge negatives is the candidate for her seat most likely victorious this November. I know it’s… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//ALCO DIST 2 | Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi received one of her most stunning rebukes yet last Wednesday from members of a local Democratic club that lies within the supervisorial district seem hopes to represent this fall. The chair of… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALCO DIST 2 | As expected, many elected officials in the contested Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 2 race view Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi’s run for the seat as something as uncomfortable as a pair of leather pants filled… Read More ›
ASSEMBLYJune 12, 2012 | A group vehemently opposed to physician-owned therapy referrals along with a senate bill currently sitting in an Assembly committee, registered the first tangible signs that opponents of Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi will be more than willing to use… Read More ›
ASSEMBLY//MARY HAYASHIMay 16, 2012 | The beginning of Mary Hayashi’s political comeback may be underway. Assembly Speaker John Perez announced the appointment Wednesday of Hayashi to the special committee to explore the governor’s proposal to reorganize the executive branch. She is among… Read More ›
Feb. 24, 2012 | Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi’s infamous brain tumor defense may now be applied to her extremely thin amount of legislative activity in the week’s after pleading guilty to misdemeanor shoplifting charges last month. Today is the last day for state… Read More ›
FALL OF HAYASHIJan. 9, 2012 | Sounding resolute, but magnanimous, Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi made her first public statement Monday regarding her guilty plea last week on a misdemenanor shoplifting charge. “I accept responsibility and I offer apologies, not excuses,” Hayashi said… Read More ›
FALL OF HAYASHI Asm. Mary Hayashi in court. ANALYSISJan. 9, 2012 | It’s not quite the Twinkie Defense, but Mary Hayashi’s guilty plea last Friday for shoplifting followed by the shocking admission that a benign brain tumor in her head made her… Read More ›
Mary, Mary, why you buggin’? FALL OF HAYASHIDec. 20, 2011 | The attorney for disgraced Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi is angling for probation and a downgrade of her charges from grand theft felony to a misdemeanor. Hayashi’s attorney Douglas Rappaport was… Read More ›
SAN FRANCISCO | Dec. 7, 2011 | Embattled Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi will get yet another waiver from appearing before a San Francisco Superior Court. The judge this morning postponed Hayashi preliminary hearing scheduled for today to Jan. 6 to allow… Read More ›
Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi ANALYSISNov. 21, 2011 | I have never seen Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi looks so human. Granted, in nearly three years hopping around the East Bay political scene, I have only seen the woman derisively called “Scary Mary” on… Read More ›
Oct. 28, 2011 | Castro Valley’s two-term Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi was charged Thursday with felony grand theft for allegedly stealing $2,450 in clothing from a San Francisco Neiman Marcus, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The irascible Hayashi was arraigned… Read More ›
