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BART strike was an epic backfire for the unions

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Editor Posted in Bay Area, Labor, Liberals, Pension Crisis, Transportation Leave a comment

BART Strike Backfires Badly for Unions

By Chris Reed, California Political Review

When San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi took on the enormous pensions that were hollowing out the city’s budget in 2011, nearly all the big name Democrats in the Bay Area wouldn’t back him up. Led by Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein, they instead supported a much more modest reform that had been crafted with public employee unions’ input.

But have times changed in the most liberal chunk of California? Maybe. As John Wildermuth pointed out on Fox & Hounds Daily, the BART strike triggered fury in the Bay Area — with strikers, not management. Continue reading→

Will sex tape prod Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer to resign?

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Bay Area, Bill Lockyer, California, Corruption, Democratic Party, Nadia Lockyer, Santa Ana 6 Comments

Good grief. Just when you thought the Nadia Lockyer affair and rehab scandal could not get any worse, a sex tape has allegedly emerged, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which reported that Nadia’s husband, California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, “believed that the man, who has a history of arrests for alleged methamphetamine use, might make the tape public if forced to break off a romantic relationship with the supervisor.”

Bill accused Nadia’s “ex-lover” of beating her up after she met him at a motel. “Stephen Chikhani (pictured above), the man Nadia Lockyer is accusing of attacking her, denied her account. He told the Oakland Tribune that the only truths were “that I have a record and that they were separated. … Pretty much everything else was made up by her husband.” The 35-year-old San Jose man has not been charged,” according to the Oakland Tribune, which refused to endorse Nadia when she ran for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in 2010. Continue reading→

Former O.C. Democrat player, Nadia Lockyer, gets beat up by an ex-boyfriend

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Bay Area, Bill Lockyer, California, Democratic Party, Nadia Lockyer, Orange County, Santa Ana 2 Comments

“Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, wife of state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, was “violently assaulted” by an ex-boyfriend she met up with at a Newark motel after the Lockyers fought, her husband says ” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

You might recall that Nadia Lockyer used to be a player in the Democratic Party of Orange County, back when her name was Nadia Maria Davis. According to a bio, she “was a member of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’s legal team and protected the voting rights of new citizens against unfounded accusations. She ran Honorable Lou Correa’s fundraising in his first bid for State Assembly.” Correa lost that race. Continue reading→