Articles Posted in the News Category

  • Chiu Campaign HQ Ransacked

    Chiu Campaign HQ Ransacked

    In addition to thousands of dollars worth of equipment stolen from the office located at 1800 Van Ness Ave, the thieves refiled through confidential campaign materials.

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    Moritz, Hume, Hellman, Conway
    Top List of 2011 Individual Campaign Contributors

    Table 1 includes all groups that have conducted independent spending (sometimes called “soft money” or “third party expenditures”) supporting or opposing candidates or measures. Table 2 includes all the committees primarily formed to support or oppose measures on the 2011 ballot.

    Readers may be particularly interested to see which donors repeatedly showed up in the tables, as well as which donors are themselves also independent groups spending directly on election advocacy communications to the voters.

  • Second Money Laundering Charge Sinks Lee Campaign

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    Second Money Laundering Charge Sinks Lee Campaign

    It is the second such allegation of money laundering to dog the Lee campaign which is already being investigated by District Attorney George Gascón and the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) for alleged money laundering by employees of Go Lorrie’s Airport Shuttle, as well as allegations of criminal vote tampering by Lee supporters.

  • Attention Cell Phone Users:
    US Chamber of Commerce, Debt Collectors
    Push Bill to Allow Cell Phone Robo Calls

    A “robo-call” is when you answer your phone and hear a recording. These calls are placed by machines that store hundreds, even thousands, of telephone numbers, and then dial them automatically and play a recorded message.

  • Photo Spread: Avalos Campaign Steps Up Visibility on Halloween

    Photo Spread: Avalos Campaign Steps Up Visibility on Halloween

    Starting off at Avalos campaign headquarters on Market Street around 7 pm, the Dodo, laden with high-spirited Avalos supporters and campaign volunteers, hit as many as six, in full-swing parties in the Excelsior, Mission, Lower Haight and Polk Street neighborhoods, handing out League of Young Voters voter guides as well as Avalos campaign literature, and completing the odyssey around 11pm at a fundraiser/Halloween party in Bernal Heights.

  • Yee Campaign Releases Real Ed Lee Exposé

    Produced and published by the campaign to elect Senator Leland Yee to Room 200, the 55-page paperback is intended to erode public support for Lee by serving as a hard-hitting counterpoint to a gushing 132-page unauthorized Lee biography entitled, “The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor,” penned and produced by political consultant Enrique Pearce and financed by an independent expenditure committee supporting Lee.

  • Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputy Suspected
    in Lobbing Tear Gas at Protesters
    Rendering Aid to Scott Olsen

    Alameda County is the designated mutual aid coordinator for the Bay Area region and called in reinforcements from San Francisco and Santa Clara counties to assist the Oakland Police Department in controlling a peaceful protest turned restive following the early Tuesday morning dismantling of Occupy Oakland, a tent city erected two weeks ago outside Oakland City Hall.