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...

I've been saying it for years   and years . But now it seems like many in the community are finally figuring it out : San Leandro Mayor Juan Gonzalez is terrible. From political corruption to moral cowardice. From selling out the city to big tech to silence on women's healthcare rights. From photo op facades, taking credit for the work of others, particularly women, to trying to hijack millions in taxpayer funds for pet projects and donor desires. In fact, it's fair to say that Juan Gonzalez has presided over one of the most expensive, incompetent, and disastrous periods in San Leandro's modern political history. His lack of leadership and inability to govern resulted in not just dysfunction on the city council , but the waste of precious public resources towards pet projects and petty grievances. Well, I think it's past time for me to share the 50+ receipts I have been saving for just this moment. And those just the ones I was able to save before they were modera...