Swalwelling: Rep. Eric Swalwell endorsed the non-union-backed supervisorial candidate then avoided labor before heading back to Washington. CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT |Rep. Eric Swalwell’s relationship with organized labor has always been a bit strained. After Swalwell made an abrupt and potentially… Read More ›
Democrat Cheryl Cook-Kallio filed Nov. 17 fornext year’s Sixteenth Assembly District primary. ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | If outgoing Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins was a college football coach her recruiting trip to the Sixteenth Assembly District could be graded as… Read More ›
Polling showed the Seventh District were more than just not into labor unions. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 7 | Legions of clipboard-toting labor Democrats say they blanketed the State Senate Seventh District battleground just days before before Tuesday election. Five… Read More ›
Alameda County proved a weak link for Susan Bonilla’s state senate campaign. STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT | Following Democrat Steve Glazer’s surprisingly strong electoral performance two weeks ago in the 7th State Senate District primary, the party’s more liberal… Read More ›
Just weeks after joining the SD7 special election, Steve Glazer is already grabbing the headlines. STATE SENATE | DISTRICT 7 | Steve Glazer, a former consultant to Gov. Jerry Brown, failed to advance past the June primary last summer in… Read More ›
Tim Sbranti looks for round two. ASSEMBLY | 16TH DISTRICT | Tim Sbranti’s bid to represent the 16th District in the State Assembly fell catastrophically short last November. His loss to Catharine Baker gave Republicans in the East Bay their… Read More ›
Steve Glazer is ready to launch his second campaign in the last year. STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT | Just under the Friday deadline, Steve Glazer has filed to run for the special election in the State Senate 7th District…. Read More ›
Ro Khanna should be praying Rep. Ami Bera pulls it out in CA-9. STATE LEGISLATURE | In politics, like other arenas of life, there’s losing and then there’s royally screwing up and losing. This happen in two races that include Alameda… Read More ›
ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | Republican upstart Catharine Baker may be causing quite a few headaches for Assembly Democrats Wednesday night. The Tri Valley attorney leads Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti in the 16th Assembly District race by less than four… 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 ›
Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti and Tri Valley attorney Catharine Baker. MEET THE CANDIDATES Catherine Baker, you are the only hope for Republicans in the East Bay on Nov. 4. The first-time candidate is not only the local party’s best prospect,… Read More ›
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 ›
Catharine Baker’s lashed back at Tim Sbranti for a mailer she says purposefully misleads voters in the 16th Assembly District. ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | Spirit of Democracy California, a right-wing independent expenditure committee believes the battleground 16th Assembly District… Read More ›
Although the amount of outside expenditures is nowhere near the record-spending during the June primary, over $800,000 has been spent in support or opposition of each candidate. ASSEMBLY | 16TH DISTRICT | In just the last two weeks this October,… Read More ›
Smeyesing–smiling with your eyes–is something Tim Sbranti can’t seem to do during this campaign. ASSEMBLY | 16TH DISTRICT | If you place 16th Assembly District candidate Tim Sbranti in the mayor’s seat during Dublin City Council meetings you will see… Read More ›
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 ›
ASSEMBLY | 16TH DISTRICT | The most expensive Assembly primary race in the state wasn’t even close as the labor-backed Tim Sbranti won a spot in the November General Election over Steve Glazer. The Dublin mayor will meet Republican Catharine… Read More ›
Steve Glazer ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | In the sports world, it’s called a fortuitous bounce. In politics, it’s what happened today for 16th Assembly District candidate Steve Glazer. Although, nowhere close to the Oakland Hills and Contra Costa County-center assembly… Read More ›
Clockwise from the left: Steve Glazer, Tim Sbranti, Catharine Baker and Newell Arnerich. THE CANDIDATES Before Steve Glazer was the “Ban BART Strikes” guy, he was the mayor of Orinda and Gov. Jerry Brown’s best bud. Now, Glazer is attempting… Read More ›
ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | This year’s race for the East Bay’s 16th state Assembly District is all about a proposal to ban BART workers from striking and the resulting pushback from organized labor. Not surprisingly, the battle over BART… 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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
MEDIA | ANALYSIS |The Bay Area News Groups version of political endorsements is here, or, better understood as an editorial staff of one filing out a page on an anti-worker edition of Mad Libs. On Wednesday it somewhat surprisingly passed… Read More ›
Tim Sbranti ASSEMBLY | 16TH DISTRICT | In the last month, Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti’s campaign for the 16th Assembly District has attracted independent expenditures of over $485,000, as of Tuesday. One of his challenger, Orinda Councilmember Steve Glazer, well-known… Read More ›
ELECTION 2014 | ASSEMBLY | 16TH DISTRICT |It wasn’t too long ago that Contra Costa County’s wealthy 16th Assembly District was a pinkish shade of red. Termed out Assemblymember Joan Buchanan is credited for turning the Lamorinda district blue, but… Read More ›
ELECTION 2014 | ASSEMBLY | 16TH DISTRICT | Steve Glazer, the moderate Assembly candidate in the 16th District and best bud of Gov. Jerry Brown, should get credit for being aggressive in his early campaigning. Progressives may not appreciate the… Read More ›
WITH TRI-VALLEY EXCLUDED FROM HAYASHI’S ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, QUIRK AND OTHERS CAN FOCUS ON HAYWARD VOTERSBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.comFollow @eastbaycitizen.com Hayward Councilman Bill Quirk, looking dapper in a crisp light gray suit, pink shirt and tie of varying pastel hues, stood on the… Read More ›
COUNTY COMMISSIONER DR. JENNIFER ONG IS RUNNING FOR AD18By Steven Tavares Assemby candidate (AD18)Dr. Jennifer Ong Hayward optometrist Dr. Jennifer Ong is the first declared candidate hoping to replace Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi when her term expires in 2012. The Alameda County… Read More ›
