GOP slams Steve Westly for juggling lemons at President Obama Piedmont...
Update: Watch how Republicans seized on the sight of Steve Westly juggling lemons at the Obama fundraiser Monday in Piedmont. See below. Oh, it’s getting crazy in Piedmont at President Obama’s...
View ArticleObama speaks for 9 min at Piedmont fundraiser, about Aurora, economy
Here’s what President Obama said Monday at the $38,500-a-person fundraiser at the Piedmont home of Wayne Jordan and Quinn Delaney, whose political contributions we detailed in Monday’s Chronicle. This...
View ArticleObama tells Fox supporters: Romney “twisting my words”
Relaying this from Comrade Marinucci, who is inside the Fox Theater, where President Obama is speaking at a fundraiser. Top ticket was $7,500. Cheapest was $100, but there weren’t too many of those....
View ArticleObama tells Fox crowd: We will be outspent, but “we will finish what we started”
Here’s more from Comrade Marinucci, who was inside President Obama’s just-completed fundraiser at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Towards the end of his 37-minute speech, Obama began riffing on the...
View ArticleAre Dems ready resort to “I’ll shoot this dog” fundraising pitch?
If you’ve ever contributed to a political campaign, your email box is filling up as the campaigns are hitting you up to give AGAIN before midnight so your cash counts toward the latest fundraising...
View ArticlePete Stark defends Social Security payments to his kids, delinquent dues
The campaign of Rep. Pete Stark, the East Bay Democrat in a contested re-election race against fellow Democrat Eric Swalwell of Dublin, confirmed to the Chronicle that Stark’s children do receive...
View ArticleMonsanto vs. Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps
It is no surprise that the processed food industry is fighting California’s GMO labeling initiative, Prop. 37, but it is revealing how very much the industry does not want this to pass. GMO stands for...
View ArticleGroup w/ties to Koch Bros drops $4 million on Prop 32
Look what just arrived in the Friday-afternoon-news-dump: A $4 million contribution to Prop 32, which the unions are freaked out about because it would limit labor’s chief weapon for influencing the...
View Article$100,000 a couple? Mitt Romney returns to Hillsborough Friday with big perks...
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney hasn’t spent a lot of time in the Bay Area, but he sure seems to like Hillsborough. The Republican candidate, who held a highly publicized May fundraiser at the...
View ArticleFoodies get new scorecard for lawmakers
Food and environmental activists unveiled a new “scorecard” for Congress on Wednesday that monitors members’ votes on food and farming issues, seeing to give a political voice to the nebulous “new food...
View ArticleShutdown turns House GOP into converts on poverty programs
Watch Friday as House Republicans and their Tea Party conservatives declare their support for federal anti-poverty programs, specifically the Women Infants and Children nutrition program known as WIC....
View Article101 million reasons why Pelosi’s leadership job is safe
Anyone wondering why House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi can keep her job despite the prospect of double-digit losses for Democrats in the House Tuesday might start with her latest fundraising...
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