Pamela Price joins Team Legend
Hayward school board member once bragged about recruiting boys for his high school choir by paying girls to flirt with them
ELECTION 2022
Days until Election Day: 20.
ALAMEDA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
—GLORY—Musician John Legend and Alameda County District Attorney candidate Pamela Price share an affinity for reforming the criminal justice system. On Monday, Legend endorsed Price’s fall campaign against Terry Wiley. Price is one of 10 district attorney’s across the county that were endorsed by Legend.
—However, there is one area is which Legend and Price share little common ground. Legend has famously won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. Price, on the other hand, has never won an election. Maybe that streak ends next month? Price decisively won the June primary over Wiley and a field of two other candidates.
COUNTY/CITY NEWS
ALAMEDA COUNTY
—EVICITON MORATORIUM’S END IS NEAR—There is now a light at the end of the tunnel for the end of Alameda County’s eviction moratorium. On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state’s Covid-19 state of emergency will end on Feb. 28, 2023. Alameda County’s two and a half year eviction moratorium is tied to the end of the state of emergency.
—For landlords and at least two Alameda County supervisors, Newsom’s date is still a long ways off. Supervisors Nate Miley and David Haubert have been pushing to rescind or modify the moratorium for several months. They have argued with the pandemic moving completely toward a return to normalcy, the moratorium is no longer useful.
—The question now is whether landlords and the supervisors will wait another four months or continue to move for its early rescission? On the flip side, tenants groups will certainly continue to push for further restrictions as fears of massive evictions loom ominously on the horizon.
—COMMITMENT TO SELLING—Alameda County and the City of Oakland is heading towards selling the former Oakland Raiders headquarters and practice facility in Alameda.
—The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the selection of a broker to facilitate the sale of the surplus land at 1150 and 1220 Harbor Bay Parkway.
—The roughly 16-acre facility is co-owned by the county and Oakland. In a related item on Tuesday’s agenda, the Board of Supervisors increased an allocation for maintenance of the Raiders facility to $917,000 for the two-period ending at the end of this year.
—MILEY BLASTS OAKLAND PRIVACY GROUP—During a lengthy celebration for individuals who help clean up Oakland’s illegal dumping, Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley was very emotional. Fighting back the scourges of illegal dumping has long been high on Miley’s to-do list. Perhaps, his emotions got too much of him?
—Miley lashed out at the City of Oakland for seemingly hindering his office’s effort to catch illegal dumpers. The city prohibits the installation of surveillance cameras on city right-of-ways.
—Miley said there is no right to privacy in public spaces. He then had pointed words for Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Council, which Miley said blamed for the prohibition on cameras and added that he “detests” the group.
—On a lighter note, as somewhat of a non-sequitur, Miley admitted that he has on occasion driven faster than the speed limit, spoken on his cellphone while driving, and has run stop signs.
CHABOT-LAS POSITAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
—GOING BANANAS—Chabot-Las Positas Community College Trustee Luis Reynoso is in hot water over at his new gig. The district’s Faculty Senate wants the Board of Trustees to call on Reynoso, who previously served on the Hayward school board, to apologize for comments he made online to some students or risk censure.
—The issue stems from Reynoso posted a graphic on his LinkedIn page that some in LGBTQ community say is used to disparage transgender individuals. See the graphic below. But Reynoso said he had no inkling the graphic contained such meaning, and only reposted it because it conveyed common sense.
—The Faculty Senate acknowledged Reynoso’s right to free speech, but took exception to Reynoso’s verbal wrangling with some students on the posting. The issue is scheduled to come before the Board of Trustees at this evening’s meeting.
HAYWARD SCHOOL BOARD
—HAYWEIRD COMMENTS—Meanwhile, one of Luis Reynoso nemesis when he served on the Hayward school board is facing some uncomfortable criticism.
—Hayward school boardmember Ken Rawdon is the subject of a video composition of some of his most eyebrow-raising comments over the years. It couldn’t come at a worst time for Rawdon, who is up for re-election next month.
—Among the most astonishing clips is one in which Rawdon, a popular music teacher at Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School, said that he paid girls to flirt with boys in order to recruit them to his choir. Apparently, Rawdon’s award-winning choir was chronically short on male talent. Hayward. Still crazy after all these years.
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