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Edward Escobar retweeted
Aisha Wahab looked at an empty House seat and asked what was in it for her.
Eric Swalwell resigned in a sex scandal and left California’s 14th District with no one in Congress. Democratic leaders asked Wahab to wait so the district would not sit vacant through a long special election. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, chair of the California Democratic delegation, says Wahab’s answer to her and her staff was “What’s in it for me?”
Lofgren released a video explaining why she would not support Wahab. She said that answer “caused me to question her fitness for service in the House.” A senior Democrat, on camera, said the woman now in Congress is not fit for the job. – at Hayward, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Santa Clara owns Levi’s Stadium.
So Santa Clara should see what it actually gets back.
Not the Bay Area. Not the NFL. Not FIFA. Us.
We just hosted a Super Bowl and six World Cup matches. Our police, firefighters, and city staff made those events possible. Before the World Cup, residents and small businesses were told there would be a real local benefit. Now the events are over. It is time for the results — not the projections.
How much did Santa Clara spend?
How much has been reimbursed?
How much extra tax revenue stayed here?
How much did our local businesses actually see?
Some small business owners are already saying the windfall never showed up. That is not an anecdote to brush off. That is a question the city has to answer.
Every dollar this stadium owes Santa Clara is a dollar that could go to public safety, streets, parks, and the downtown revitalization residents have waited decades for. Drive El Camino. Look at the vacant storefronts. This is not just an accounting issue. It is a neighborhood issue.
That is why I am calling for:
• an independent analysis of the stadium’s direct benefit to Santa Clara
• a full public accounting of Super Bowl and World Cup costs, reimbursements, and revenues
• a clear annual report of what the stadium puts into our general fund
This is not anti-49ers. I want the team and the stadium to succeed. I also want Santa Clara to succeed. When a public asset generates private revenue, the public deserves the books.
Santa Clara residents first.
Kathy Watanabe for Mayor
KathyWatanabe.com – at Santa Clara, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Jed York has put $2,625,823 into this Santa Clara election to elect his picks and to attack me.
Santa Clara is not for sale.
Vote Kathy Watanabe for Mayor of Santa Clara by November 3.
KathyWatanabe.com – at San Jose, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Day 1 of the Sheng Thao trial.
Twelve jurors were sworn in yesterday for the Sheng Thao bribery trial.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers spent the day in Courtroom 1 at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland questioning a pool of roughly 70 people. The defense struck 15. The prosecution dismissed 8. What remained was a panel of five men and seven women, plus six alternates. A retail worker. A San Francisco security guard. A retired software engineer. A cable car engineer. A woman who coordinates care at Easterseals. They come from across the Northern District and will sit for a trial expected to run about six weeks.
Thao’s lawyer, Jeffrey Tsai, asked the pool whether her recall would make it hard to be fair. Some said it would. They were not selected. The ones who were sworn in have been told to stay isolated and not talk about the case. Opening statements started this morning.
The jury is now hearing the case Oakland already voted on. Attack mailers paid for by the Duongs. A no-show job for Andre Jones. Promises on contracts and appointments in return. Mario Juarez pleaded guilty and is expected to testify about the deal. The texts are in the record. When it looked like she had won, Juarez wrote Andy Duong, “So we may go to jail. But we are $100 million richer.” Duong replied, “Money buys everything.” – at Oakland, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Mike Solana and Nicole Wizman from Pirate Wires recommend No on Prop B. They say San Francisco does not need a public bank, and that one would mainly finance the politically connected.
piratewires.com/p/a-san-fran… – at San Francisco, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
NBC Bay Area just ran a 36-second explainer on Oakland’s Measure EE. Here is what they did not have time to say.
On November 3 a simple majority can lock a new system into the city charter. The mayor becomes CEO, gets a veto over laws, and gets a line-item veto over the budget. One person can zero out a park, a street, or a neighborhood project. It takes six of eight council votes to undo it. The City Auditor’s impartial analysis says the package costs $2 million to $2.6 million a year, mostly because the Public Ethics Commission would reset elected pay, with council raises estimated at $36,000 to $108,000 each.
Barbara Lee is the one selling this. She convened the working group, she and Council President Kevin Jenkins wrote the plan, and she broke a 4-4 council tie to put it on the ballot for the office she holds and is running to keep. Councilmembers Zac Unger, Janani Ramachandran, Noel Gallo, and Ken Houston voted no.
The official argument against it, signed by Loren Taylor, Budget Advisory Commission member Ben Gould, Pam Drake, and Naomi Schiff, calls it a power grab. Their words: it makes government less transparent, increases the risk of corruption, and drives gridlock. A future mayor could appoint unqualified friends to department jobs. And it hands councilmembers massive pay raises while asking them to do less. Nate Miley, Nancy Nadel, and former Ethics Commission chair Ralph Kanz are on the no side too. – at Oakland, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
A man in Ontario just told San Francisco to open a bank. He will not fund it. He will not run it. He will not be here when the loans fail.
Thomas Marois is a public-banking professor at McMaster University. His Chronicle piece says Proposition B is the key to affordable housing and holds up the Bank of North Dakota, which sent $353 million back to that state. North Dakota capitalized its bank in 1919 and kept the lending narrow. Prop B capitalizes nothing. It writes the structure into the Charter and leaves the bill for later. The Controller puts that bill at $310 million to $460 million.
He calls the appointed board a safeguard. Politicians appoint the board. The board picks the loans. The loss stays with San Francisco taxpayers. Hamilton, Ontario does not get a share.
The Chronicle editorial board already recommended No. This is a guest column from a man whose job is promoting public banks. San Francisco does not have a shortage of theories. It has a shortage of money.
Vote No on Proposition B. – at San Francisco, CA
A public bank could be key to fixing San Francisco’s affordable housing crisis sfchronicle.com/opinion/open… via @sfchronicle
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Sign the recall at RecallFielder.com. – at San Francisco, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
A first grader in Jackie Fielder’s district reached through the recess fence and grabbed a bloody needle. He passed it to four other children before an adult caught it.
That was Marshall Elementary, a block from 16th and Mission. A beer bottle shattered next to a student in the same yard. Open drug use is still on the blocks kids walk to school. Her office says the complaints are up.
Her answer was a letter to Daniel Lurie asking him to do her job. More foot patrols. More ambassadors. More street cleaning.
She already asked for 24/7 unarmed ambassadors in July. The city told her it was too expensive and would put them in harm’s way. She sent the same request again and called the data “disappointing.”
She was gone 105 days on paid leave, the longest leave of any supervisor in San Francisco history.
A letter is not leadership. It is a supervisor who failed the block and wants the mayor to own it.
Jackie Fielder is not fit for office. – at San Francisco, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Aisha Wahab wants to abolish ICE. Her father told supporters to call ICE on her opponent. She still will not say he was wrong.
Tawab Wahab, the man she calls her adoptive father, wrote it in public. “Call ICE on the Mexican girl she don’t belong here.” Then he said this country belongs to “higher people, not a fruit picker’s daughter,” that they do not want a congresswoman from Mexico, and that it was time to send Mexicans back. The woman he was talking about is Melissa Hernandez. Daughter of migrant farmworkers. First Latina mayor of Dublin. The Democrat Wahab has to beat on November 3.
Rep. Linda Sánchez asked the only question that matters. Did her father call for Hernandez to be deported? Rep. Zoe Lofgren called the comments racist, plain and simple, and said Wahab must denounce them. Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez called calling ICE on a Latina elected official a threat.
Wahab would not say he was wrong. The account had her father’s name. The photo matched the man she once called her biggest cheerleader. She offered statements. She did not offer a condemnation.
She campaigns on killing ICE. Her own father tried to aim it at the Latina running against her. When her own party told her to disown it, she refused. A member of Congress who will not condemn a call to deport her opponent will not stand up for this district when it costs her something. – at Fremont, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Vote NO on Measure EE. Do not give Barbara Lee more power. Learn more at OaklandPowerGrab.com. – at Oakland, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Oaklandside just tried to split Barbara Lee’s record into highs and lows. There are no highs.
Deficits projected through 2030. Voters rejected her parcel tax. $24 million in federal money lost or delayed. Only 601 of 678 police jobs filled. 61 officers on leave. A police academy that started with 22 and graduated 14. About six officers walking out every month. She still has not hit the 700-officer mandate voters already paid for.
Encampments went up while she claimed homelessness was down. Downtown office vacancy near 38%. Buildings in foreclosure. The city auditor called the illegal dumping strategy a failure. Her city administrator was lost to a texting scandal. The strong mayor rewrite opponents called a power grab.
What the Oaklandside called highs were checks. Crankstart. Kaiser. Kapor. Private money to paper over a city that cannot fund itself, then a nonprofit newsroom treats the checks like a record.
That is Barbara Lee’s Oakland. A woman attacked at 8 a.m. while opening Javi’s Cooking. A Sunday shelter-in-place after a man shot at police and set a house on fire. A 23-year soul food landmark closed, and she posted that she stopped by to celebrate. The Raiders, the Warriors, and the A’s gone, and she hyped a frisbee title. A $1 million plan to pay unhoused people to pick up trash they create.
Leave Barbara Lee off your ballot for Mayor by November 3. – at Oakland, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Do not hand Barbara Lee more power. Vote NO on Measure EE. Ballots are already out. OaklandPowerGrab.com – at Oakland, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Oaklandside just laid out what Measure EE actually does, and it is worse than the slogan.
On November 3, a simple majority can rewrite Oakland’s charter and make the mayor the city’s CEO. That means a veto over laws and a line-item veto over the budget. One person can zero out a park, a street, or a neighborhood project. It takes six of eight council votes to undo it. The City Auditor says the package costs $2 million to $2.6 million a year, mostly because the Public Ethics Commission would reset elected pay, with council raises estimated at $36,000 to $108,000 each.
Barbara Lee is the one selling this. She convened the working group, she and Council President Kevin Jenkins wrote the plan, and she broke a 4-4 council tie to put it on the ballot for the office she holds and is running to keep.
The official argument against it, signed by Loren Taylor, Budget Advisory Commission member Ben Gould, Pam Drake, and Naomi Schiff, calls it a power grab. Their words, not mine: it makes government less transparent, increases the risk of corruption, and drives gridlock. A future mayor could appoint unqualified friends to department jobs. A veto lets one office block what a council majority already passed. And it hands councilmembers massive pay raises while asking them to do less.
Nate Miley, Nancy Nadel, former Ethics Commission chair Ralph Kanz, James Vann, and Sharon Rose are on the no side too. The yes side is Lee, Libby Schaaf, and the people who already run City Hall.
This is not reform. It is a permanent charter veto, a pay reset, and a tie-breaking vote cast by the person who benefits.
Vote NO on Measure EE by November 3. – at Oakland, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
DSA is not backing a public bank. They are backing a piggy bank.
Proposition B lets the socialists already at City Hall appoint the board, steer the loans to the nonprofits in their own coalition, and call it public banking. The money goes out the front door as a “loan.” It comes back as staff, contracts, and campaign muscle. The borrower does not have to be creditworthy. Supervisor Mahmood already said that part out loud.
None of it is funded. The Controller puts the bill at $310 million to $460 million. That money is not on the ballot. If the loans fail, the NGOs keep the cash and San Francisco taxpayers eat the loss.
They have wanted this since 2018. Prop B is how they lock it into the Charter. Vote No by November 3. – at San Francisco, CA
Join the DSA SF Electoral Board as we call new and existing members to let them know about our upcoming events for Yes on Prop B, Yes on Prop I, and No on Prop D!
ALT Ballot measure turnout Tuesday. RSVP at the link in bio. DSA SF office, 1916 McAllister Street, Tuesday, October 6, 7-8 pm. Yes on Prop B, Yes on Prop I, No on Prop D.
Edward Escobar retweeted
A member of Congress just refused to disown the Taliban in her own district. WahabFiles.com has the tape. November 3 is how you throw her out. – at Fremont, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Aisha Wahab was confronted on a debate stage over her call for America to have a relationship with the Taliban, and instead of taking it back, she doubled down.
Melissa Hernandez said what Wahab hoped the district would never hear. “I’m an honest person in terms of not having communications with the Taliban like my opponent.”
She told voters to look it up. The tape exists. On Democracy Now, Wahab said the United States should keep “having a relationship” with whoever is running Kabul. Whoever is running Kabul is the Taliban.
She had the microphone. She could have said she was wrong. She instead chose to call it hate. She said the district was “disgusted” by “these types of hate.” She wrapped a terror regime in a diversity speech and never said the only sentence that mattered. America does not negotiate with terrorists who banned girls from school and spent twenty years killing American troops.
That is not clarification. She doubled down. Hernandez told the truth. Wahab attacked her for telling it. – at Dublin, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
Aisha Wahab bought a congressional seat with a dead campaign and a party cutout. She must be investigated. WahabFiles.com has the proof. November 3 is not a pardon. – at Hayward, CA
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Aisha Wahab is facing a criminal referral asking the Alameda County DA to investigate her for laundering corporate cash into her race for Congress.
She abandoned the state senate race and left the account open so the banned money could keep moving. That is the scam. A state committee can take corporate checks. A campaign for Congress cannot. She left the dead account alive, filled it with money she was not allowed to use, and sent it to the Alameda County Democratic Party to spend on her congressional race. On May 5 that committee gave the party $60,000. On May 14 it paid her mail printer $37,177 for that same congressional race. On June 24 it sent another $5,000 while the party was already campaigning to put her in Congress. The letter puts the total at $102,177.
Supervisor Nate Miley filed a verified complaint with the Federal Election Commission. TJ Singh signed the letter demanding the DA open a case. Wahab signed the reports on May 20 and July 15 under penalty of perjury, certifying filings for an office she was not running for. In California that is a felony if she knew.
Singh said the part her party will not. “If I did this, I would be investigated. If you did this, you would be investigated. A candidate for Congress should not get a free pass.” – at Dublin, CA
Edward Escobar retweeted
A member of Congress just asked America to sit down with the Taliban. WahabFiles.com has the tape.
Aisha Wahab represents Afghanistan, not the United States. – at Fremont, CA