Politics

Oct 202014
 
Tweets from Last Mayor & City Council Candidate Forum

The Hayward Demos held a candidate forum for San Leandro Mayoral and City Council candidates on Thursday, Oct. 17th.  All candidates, except for Leah Hall, were present. They answered questions from the audience.  The following are tweets from the forum sent by Mike Katz-Lacabe.  Because Mike is a candidate for District 1, he was unable to tweet during that part of the forum.   DISTRICT 3 San Leandro Dist. 3 candidates Victor Aguilar & Allen Schoenfeld against armored assault vehicle. Lee Thomas wants more info and justification. Lee Thomas disagreed with warrant-less searches of houses includes in chickens/bees ordinance. Aguilar & Schoenfeld [Continue Reading]

Oct 192014
 
San Leandro City Council D3 Candidate Victor Aguilar Answers Questions

In order to better get to know the candidates for San Leandro offices, I sent out a questionnaire with questions provided by San Leandro residents and relevant to San Leandro. These are Victor Aguilar’s answers. PERSONAL INFORMATION 1- Do you have a website, Facebook Smart Voter page with more information about you and your platform? My Facebook page can be found at www.facebook.com/victoraguilarforsanleandrocitycouncil 2- What is your political philosophy? My political philosophy is to protect our environment, provide quality public safety, support a strong positive relationship between the City, and schools, place San Leandro on a substantial foundation for fiscal [Continue Reading]

Oct 122014
 
Your Voting Guide to State, Alameda & San Leandro Measures

State Propositions Prop 1: NO Prop 1 is a bond measure that would raise billions to be spent on water infrastructure. Over 2 billion would be use to build dams, which has negative environmental consequences. The bond would be pay back from the state’s general fund, rather than by imposing fees to the agricultural businesses that will mostly benefit from this measure. Here is a useful and simple independent analysis of the bill. Prop 2: NO Prop 2 requires that 1.5% of general fund revenues be put into reserves. Half the money would go to pay off debt, and the other to be [Continue Reading]

Oct 122014
 
Dumas and Gonzalez Best Choice for San Leandro School Board

The San Leandro School Board has two seats open this November.  The election is by plurality vote – whoever gets the most votes wins, even if they get under 50% of the total vote -, and all registered voters who live within the boundaries of the San Leandro School District can vote in both races. The race for Area 4 is between three parents: Latrina Dumas, Chike Udemezue and Leo Sheridan.  Parents Evelyn Gonzalez and Monique Taste, retired New Haven teacher Jean Kinkella, and  Peter Oshinski, who runs Hayward Unified’s school lunch program, are contesting for the At-Large seat. Among these candidates, [Continue Reading]

Oct 122014
 

In order to better get to know the candidates for San Leandro offices, I sent out a questionnaire with questions provided by San Leandro residents and relevant to San Leandro.  Allen Schoenfeld has answered all the questions. PERSONAL INFORMATION 1- Do you have a website, Facebor Smart Voter page with more information about you and your platform? Yes, I have a smart voter page however you can email me personally at Grandpaal369@aol.com and I will be happy to answer any and all questions. 2- What is your political philosophy? My political philosophy is I love my city and want a [Continue Reading]