Please attend Benicia City Council meeting on Tuesday, January 15, 7pm at City Hall. If you can’t make it, send your thoughts by email. Benicia’s CURRENT campaign ordinances can be viewed at codepublishing.com/CA/Benicia/. Chapters 1.36, 1.40 and 1.42 are the main election ordinances. In particular, see Chapter 1.40 “Disclosure of Contributions and Expenditures in Candidate … Continue reading How to make Benicia campaigns fairer and more transparent→
By Roger Straw, Election Day, November 6, 2018 [Editor: For whatever reason, the City backed off its plan to post the video of the forum, but made DVD copies available to the public on request. This is therefore an official record of the proceedings, uploaded from the DVD by Benicia videographer Constance Beutel. Many thanks, … Continue reading Here it is – video of the Final Word Forum→
Repost from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat [Editor: note some of the same unfriendly giants as in Benicia: Valero Energy of course, and the law firm Nielsen Merksamer (“Bay Area-based law and lobbying firm that specializes in political and public-sector cases”). – R.S.] Oil and real estate interests pour money into Petaluma and Santa Rosa races … Continue reading Benicia isn’t the only one – big oil money inserts itself in Petaluma & Santa Rosa races→
By Roger Straw, November 5, 2018 [Editor: At around 6pm tonight, City Manager Lorie Tinfow responded to urgent citizen requests to air the video. She wrote, “We are treating the video of the Candidates Forum on Saturday in the same way we have treated previous videos of this forum when held. We are showing it … Continue reading City decides NOT to post Final Word forum video- last rebroadcast Monday night 7pm→
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