Council: Let’s get creative so that we don’t have another dirty election in 2020

An email sent to Benicia City Council and staff by Roger Straw (also published in the Benicia Herald and Vallejo Times-Herald) Massive intrusion of big money in our local election By Roger Straw, November 12, 2018 In an online forum, Vice Mayor Steve Young congratulated City Council members-elect Strawbridge and Largaespada, and wrote, “While I … Continue reading Council: Let’s get creative so that we don’t have another dirty election in 2020

KQED: State chooses not to investigate Valero’s push poll

Repost from KQED California Report [Editor:  The anonymous Valero spokesperson’s comments quoted here amount to yet another last-minute hit-piece.  The letter from which the quotes are taken is malignant with lies, and appears in the online edition of the Vallejo Times-Herald.  Read this article to the end for comments by Mayor Patterson and Vice Mayor … Continue reading KQED: State chooses not to investigate Valero’s push poll

Times-Herald: Benicia candidates’ campaign finance reports

Repost from the Vallejo Times-Herald [Editor: For links to the individual reports, see Details: Benicia candidates file new campaign finance-reports.  – R.S.] Benicia council candidates raise $13,780 since Sept. 23 By JOHN GLIDDEN, October 26, 2018 at 3:19 pm BENICIA — Three of the four Benicia City Council candidates have raised a combined $13,780 in campaign cash … Continue reading Times-Herald: Benicia candidates’ campaign finance reports

Outside labor PAC spending in Benicia – AND Vallejo

Repost from the Vallejo Times-Herald [Editor: See update on total of $154,200 amassed by this giant outsider PAC which is anything but “Working Families.”  – RS] Sacramento trades council donates $40,000 to local contests in Vallejo, Benicia By JOHN GLIDDEN, October 24, 2018 at 3:52 pm A Sacramento-based trades council has gotten involved with local politics by … Continue reading Outside labor PAC spending in Benicia – AND Vallejo