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As the protests against President Elect Trump gain momentum in the Bay Area, and President Obama and Hillary Clinton tell us to accept Trump as our president, the Trump campaign is moving rapidly in scrubbing the Trump Campaign Website!...

There are rent control victories in the Cities of Oakland, Richmond and Mountain View, in the effort to save tens of thousands of renters from being displaced from their housing by heartless greedy landlords, realtors and speculators in the Bay Area!...

California, a bellwether state, approved Prop 64, legalizing marijuana for recreational use, as did Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. Medical marijuana was approved in Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota. 8 states have legalized marijuana and 28 states have medical marijuana. California has passed the pro-death penalty acceleration Prop 66 and defeated Prop 62, which would have abolished the death penalty. San Francisco, Oakland and Albany have passed the extremely regressive and reac...

According to public records, the CAA spent $1,041,714 from 1/1/2016 through 10/22/2016 on TV attack ads, radio attack ads, lawn signs, mailers, phone polls, and an assortment of other means to suppress the vote for renter protection ballot measures in 6 cities in the Bay Area that voters can vote on, on November 8!...

According to Cindy Cornell, Founder of the Yes on Measure R campaign in Burlingame,”In our campaign for rent stabilization in Burlingame (Measure R), we have consistently seen lies and distortions of the truth in mailers, tv and radio commercials, letters to the editor, and directly out of the mouth of Josh Howard, Executive Director of CAA's Tri-County Division!...

In an extraordinary and unprecedented action, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has stepped into the 2016 presidential campaign only 11 days before Election Day, sending a letter to Congress announcing new “investigative steps” related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server....

In opposition to the renters in the “David vs. Goliath” renter protection campaigns taking place in the Bay Area, are the greedy landlords, speculators, realtors & realtor associations, and apartment associations that are spending a ton of money to have the notorious California Apartment Association (CAA) run some massive campaigns against Bay Area renters seeking renter protections. The massive campaigns and big money being spent by the CAA are corrupting the political process in the Bay Are...

Alamedans For Fair Rent Control (AFFRC) is a group of landlords and property owners opposed to reasonable renter protections. The group is composed of numerous contributing members including those from Kane and Associates ($300), Fortuna Realty ($200), Acuity Sales and Service ($100), Seismic Accessories, Getten Corporate Housing ($500), Harbor Bay Realty ($1,000), Pacific NW Painters and Construction, Inc. ($1,000). Then theres Raymond Stanton who chipped in $1,400, and many others who chipp...

I wrote this letter this morning after Vice-Mayor Cynthia Chase attempted to stop me from speaking with my back to the Council during Oral Communications yesterday afternoon. It wasn't clear to me that she was taking action to arrest me, but seemed like she was threatening to do so. It has to emphasized again that a violation of Council rules, unless it disrupts the meeting, is not a disruption, however much a presiding officer wants to paint it as one. The interruption and threat to the ...

As recent as Monday October 24, 2016, it was reported by the Palo Alto Weekly that the owner of the Stanford Garden Apartments and his son were arrested for harassing the tenants at the rent controlled building at 1735 Woodland Avenue, in East Palo Alto, in an effort to frighten them out of their housing so they could raise the rents!...