The 2020 Benicia Election – a decidedly PARTISAN collection…

By Roger Straw, October, 2020
[NOTE – This page is a work in progress.  Check back soon.  – R.S.]

I have been involved at a leadership level in 7 local/regional electoral campaigns over the last 13 years.  I have stayed out of this year’s contests for personal reasons.  What follows is my own gathering of materials, not in consultation with any campaign.  I hope this collection might be helpful to voters now (and in the future) in documenting the positive and negative strokes filling our mailboxes, phone lines, newspapers and digital media in 2020.  To be perfectly clear, I am voting FOR Steve Young for Mayor, FOR Terry Scott for Council, and AGAINST the Valero PAC’s effort to buy our local government.  More about that below….

• • Jump to STEVE YOUNG FOR MAYOR, for and against

  • Jump to TERRY SCOTT FOR COUNCIL

  • Jump to the VALERO PAC’s ATTEMPT TO BUY OUR ELECTION

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STEVE YOUNG FOR BENICIA MAYOR

• Steve’s website
• Steve’s Facebook page
  • Facebook VIDEOS
• Steve’s Youtube channel
• Benicia Independent endorsement
• Progressive Democrats of Benicia endorsement
• Solano County Democratic Central Committee endorsement
• Steve’s mailer, Oct. 5, 2020
• GNSC Candidate Forum video: on the Environment and Refinery Issues, Oct. 5, 2020
• LWVSolano Candidate Forum video, Oct. 8, 2020
• Print advertisement, “IT’S TIME TO STOP”, Benicia Herald, Oct. 11, 2020
• Campaign email, “It’s Time to Fact Check a PAC of Lies” Oct. 12, 2020
• Benicia Mayor candidate Steve Young: Finding common ground with Valero when they want me to lose SO badly
• Benicia Teachers Association endorsement (Benicia Herald headline)
• Steve’s Closing Statement on Oct 26 – It Is Time to Make a Choice

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TERRY SCOTT FOR BENICIA CITY COUNCIL

• Terry’s website
• Terry’s Facebook page
• Terry’s first mailer, Oct. 5, 2020
• Terry’s second mailer, Oct. 12, 2020
• Print advertisement, “IT’S TIME TO STOP”, Benicia Herald, Oct. 11, 2020
• Benicia Teachers Association endorsement (Benicia Herald headline)

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VALERO TRYING TO BUY OUR 2020 MAYORAL ELECTION

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  Valero’s war chest – big money in 2020: BenIndy news reports

• $ DETAILS of the Valero PAC’s 2020 campaign disclosure reports combined in a single Excel spreadsheet
• Campaigns to Valero: BACK OFF!
• Where is the Valero PAC money coming from?
• Paul Adler of Benicia Valero: captured on video refusing to refrain from negative election interference
• Sample negative campaign mailers, and Steve’s rebuttal
• John Ryan – Some background on political ambitions of Christina and Scott Strawbridge