Davka Daze

As your friendly neighborhood advocate and community organizer, I'm here again to bring you the only comprehensive election guide for San Leandro voters! This resource is to help you decide what to vote for (or against) along with the reasons and receipts. My choices are based on my decade plus career in federal, state, and local government, cross-referenced with other local election guides, listed below, and my own experience with many of the candidates and issues, as well as subject matter experts and local media. This will be a long post, so buckle up! If you're strapped for time, you can find the tl;dr version just below. You can check out the details further down at your leisure. It starts with San Leandro races, then Alameda County races, local nonpartisan district offices and measures, followed by justices/judges with the courts, state offices, federal offices, and state propositions. Depending on where you live, some races may not be on your ballot or on this guide, es...

(Credit gorodenkoff) The San Leandro City Council has just approved the purchase of a new AI technology product created by a former Palantir employee (of the company owned by Trump billionaire backer and bigot, Peter Thiel) to be used by the San Leandro police department. All without a competitive bidding process, a written contract, or even a scope of work, to allow SLPD to conduct operations on residents without oversight or controls. All to the tune of $705k. As a start. Credit to u/ww_crimson on the SL subreddit for sharing this update. I think it should be obvious to everyone - including our elected officials who voted for it, Mayor Juan Gonzalez, Councilmember James Aguilar, Councilmember Xouhoa Bowen, and Councilmember Fred Simon, encouraged by the city manager, Janelle Cameron - that this is a terrible idea that will take away our rights to privacy, endanger residents, and prevent our police department from actually making our city safer. (Credit to Councilmembers Sbeydeh ...