Voting

VP Harris Meets With National Black Caucus of State Legislators To Discuss Ukraine, SCOTUS, Voting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7KgcGg7uPA Oakland News Now – video made by the YouTube channel with the logo in the video’s upper left hand corner. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this type of video-blog content. Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris met with the National Black Caucus of State Legislators to discuss voting rights, the … via IFTTT […]

What They Are Saying As House Passes President Biden’s American Rescue Plan

The White House released this “What They Are Saying” press release after the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Biden’s American Rescue Plan WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: House Passes President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Today, the House voted to pass the American Rescue Plan, a historic accomplishment that will provide immediate relief and support to […]

VOTE! – HBO Doc On Oakland OUSD’s MLK Oratorical Fest Nominated For NAACP Image Award

HBO Documentary About OUSD’s Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Fest is Nominated for NAACP Image Award; Public Voting is Open Through Friday VOTE: https://naacpimageawards.net/2021-nominees/ Oakland – The Emmy-award winning HBO documentary, We Are The Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest, is up for another major award, and the driving force behind it […]

OUSD Superintendent: Black History Month is Here, But We Need More than A Celebration

From OUSD Superintendent Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell Dear Oakland Unified Community, I am both proud to say we are now in Black History Month, and disheartened to know that in our world, it is quite clear that the forces that try to diminish Black voices and heritage have been emboldened. The past year has been wrought […]

Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese Press Briefing, January 22, 2021

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese January 22, 2021 James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:03 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Good afternoon, everyone. Happy Friday. Today, we are joined by National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, who will highlight some key aspects of the executive orders the […]

Oakland Grand Lake Theater Marquee Says Good Riddance To Trump, Worst U. S. President Ever

Grand Lake Theater Marquee Says Good Riddance To Trump As Worst U. S. President Ever ONN – Grand Lake Theater Marquee Says Good Riddance To Trump As Worst U. S. President Ever – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Grand Lake Theater Marquee Says Good Riddance To Trump As Worst U. S. President Ever. This one is […]

Berkeley Boosts: Civil Remedies for Voting Rights Violations

Berkeley Boosts: Civil Remedies for Voting Rights Violations From YouTube Channel: January 20, 2021 at 01:41PM ONN – Recorded December 4, 2020 Guests: Justin Levitt and Kristen Clarke In this half-hour webinar presented by Berkeley Law Executive Education, Justin Levitt and Kristen Clarke, two of the nation’s leading voting rights experts, discuss voting rights violations […]

Don Perata Interview – 2010 Oakland Mayor’s Race Interview With The Man Who Almost Won

Don Perata Interview – 2010 Oakland Mayor’s Race Interview With The Man Who Almost Won But for rank-choice voting, Don Perata, and not Jean Quan, would have been our Mayor of Oakland. Don, best known as President pro tempore of the California State Senate, and later President of Perata Engineering (a lobbying company), was the […]

Oakland A’s Relief Pitcher Liam Hendriks Makes MLB 2020 All-MLB First Team

Congratulations are in order for Oakland Athletics Relief Pitcher Liam Hendriks, who was named to the MLB 2020 All-MLB First Team. The man called “HercuLiam”, scored yet another honor, to rack up a slew of them. The exploits of the A’s closer were best summed up by Alex Hall over at AthleticsNation: The nod for […]

Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes, Leigh Steinberg Client, Tops NFL Pro Bowl Voting, Unsurprisingly

The National Football League reports that Leigh Steinberg Client, Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes leads all players in voting for the 2021 Pro Bowl. Here’s what the NFL issued: Kansas City quarterback PATRICK MAHOMES, with 206,525 votes, leads all players in balloting for the 2021 Pro Bowl presented by Verizon. Seattle quarterback RUSSELL WILSON […]

Oakland Progressives Party YouTube Fundraiser Celebrating Oakland Rising’s Jessamyn Sabbag

Oakland Progressives Party – 12/2 @ 5-6:30 From YouTube Channel: December 3, 2020 at 10:01AM ONN – Oakland Progressives Party YouTube Fundraiser Celebrating Oakland Rising’s Jessamyn Sabbag This YouTube video comes from the new YouTube Channel for the Oakland Progressives Party. It features a fundraiser that was held on December 2nd from 5 PM to […]

Biden Transition Post-Election Legal Briefing With Former White House Counsel Bob Bauer

Post-Election Legal Briefing with Bob Bauer From YouTube Channel: November 20, 2020 at 10:42AM ONN – Biden Transition Post-Election Legal Briefing With Former White House Counsel Bob Bauer For anyone who follows, or has been involved in Democratic Party politics and policy formation at any level, or who has covered the DNC, Professor Bob Bauer […]

OUSD Has Newly Elected Board of Education Directors; Swearing-In Takes Place In January

Oakland Unified School District New Board of Education Directors Dear Oakland Unified Community, As we have been talking over the past few weeks, Tuesday, November 3 was an enormous election for our city, the state of California, and the United States. Here in OUSD, as you know, we saw voters pass Measure Y, the bond […]

Oakland City Council Wants California To Give Affordable Housing Entities Priority to Purchase Homes

The Oakland City Council calls for State Legislation to Give Affordable Housing Entities Priority to Purchase Residential Homes Up For Tax Auction The Oakland City Council (unanimously) passed a resolution, introduced by Oakland Council member At-Large Rebecca Kaplan, that would support the California State Legislature enacting legislation that would support affordable housing by requiring that […]

Fox News Cuts Kayleigh McEnany As She Slams Democrats With Fake News Of Welcoming Illegal Voting

Fox News Cuts Kayleigh McEnany As She Slams Democrats With Fake News Of Welcoming Illegal Voting From YouTube Channel: November 10, 2020 at 12:12AM ONN – Fox News Cuts Kayleigh McEnany As She Slams Democrats With Fake News Of Welcoming Illegal Voting Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates the full […]

Oakland Ranked Choice Voting Election: Alameda County Registrar of Voters Latest Results, Nov 8th 2020

Oakland FAD – The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has posted its latest version of the base-level vote tallies for each of the races and measures in the November 3rd, 2020 Election, this one for November 8th, 2020. Here, it’s important to post the message from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters: Total number of […]

Oakland Elections 2020 Oakland City Council D7 RCV Updated Results: Treva Reid Wins Election

Oakland, FAD – Good Friday to you. Once again, and thanks to the County of Alameda’s Registrar of Voters, Zennie62Media has a table for each rank-choice-voting election in the races for Oakland City Council. Now, the Alameda Registrar of Voters has sent all of the new updates for this election. Here they are, this time […]

Oakland Elections 2020 Oakland City Council D5 RCV Updated Results: Noel Gallo Wins Re-Election

Oakland, FAD – Good Friday to you. Again, and thanks to the County of Alameda’s Registrar of Voters, Zennie62Media has a table for each rank-choice-voting election in the races for Oakland City Council. As the Alameda Registrar of Voters sends new updates, those will be posted below the first set for each race. Here they […]

Full Text: The President Trump Election 2020 Update Speech The TV Networks Stopped Running

Here’s the full text of the speech President Donald Trump gave Thursday evening – one that shocked the nation, and even had veteran CNN anchor Dana Bash in nearly tears. And for good reason: What Dana pointed out was that Trump set up America – Democrats and his supporters – by saying to them don’t […]

Oakland Elections 2020 Rank Choice Voting District Three Results: Carroll File Is The Victor

Oakland, FAD – Thanks to the County of Alameda’s Registrar of Voters, Zennie62Media has a table for each rank-choice-voting election in the races for Oakland City Council. This time, we’ll look at Oakland City Council District Three (which happens to be this vlogger’s area). As the Alameda Registrar of Voters sends new updates, those will […]

Oakland Elections 2020 Rank Choice Voting Updated Results: Dan Kalb Nails Re-Election

Oakland, FAD – Thanks to the County of Alameda’s Registrar of Voters, Zennie62Media has a table for each rank-choice-voting election in the races for Oakland City Council. As the Alameda Registrar of Voters sends new updates, those will be posted below the first set for each race. Here they are, this time with the Oakland […]

Insight Terminal Solutions and Autumn Wind Lending, LLC Make Industrial News

Insight Terminal Solutions Beat Autumn Wind Lending, LLC In This Round In Court. Something only posted for interest and record. Nonetheless. An interesting behind-the-scenes battle as mentioned in ” Delaware Bankruptcy Court Rules that Bankruptcy Blocking Right in Debtor’s Corporate Charter Violates Federal Public Policy” by Jones Day: Another notable case is In re Insight […]

Oakland Elections 2020 Rank Choice Voting Updated Results: Rebecca Kaplan Still Ahead

Oakland, FAD – Thanks to the County of Alameda’s Registrar of Voters, Zennie62Media has a table for each rank-choice-voting election in the races for Oakland City Council. As the Alameda Registrar of Voters sends new updates, those will be posted below the first set for each race. Here they are, starting with the Oakland City […]

Biden vs Trump: Zennie62Media’s 2020 Election Online Livestream Party And Voting Review

Biden vs Trump: Zennie62Media’s 2020 Election Online Livestream Party And Voting Review ONN – Biden vs Trump: Zennie62Media’s 2020 Election Online Livestream Party And Voting Review – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Biden vs Trump: Zennie62Media’s 2020 Election Online Livestream Party And Voting Review Note from Zennie62Media’s Zennie62 YouTube and Oakland News Now Today Blog SF […]

Zennie62Media’s 2020 Election Online Livestream Party And Voting Review

Zennie62Media’s 2020 Election Online Livestream Party And Voting Review From YouTube Channel: November 3, 2020 at 07:06PM ONN – Zennie62Media’s 2020 Election Online Livestream Party And Voting Review Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. […]

Oakland Schools Open For Voting: OUSD Says Ten District-Run Schools, One Charter School on Halloween – Nov 3rd

OUSD Reports Polling Locations Open at Ten District-Run Schools and One Charter School in OUSD on Halloween, and Will Open Daily Through November 3; Voters Can Drop off Their Ballots at the Locations When Open Voters Can Drop off Their Ballots at the Locations When Open Oakland, CA – There are now just three days […]

Rick Gates Interview: Former Trump Advisor Talks 2020 Election Vote, His Time in The White House

Rick Gates Interview: Former Trump Advisor Talks 2020 Election Vote, His Time in The White House From YouTube Channel: October 30, 2020 at 07:41PM ONN – Rick Gates Interview: Former Trump Advisor Talks 2020 Election Vote, His Time in The White House To anyone who follows Washington Politics, Rick Gates is someone who needs no […]

Lakers’ Danny Green on another title, the Masai Ujiri incident in Oakland, and giving back to Canada

Lakers’ Danny Green on another title, the Masai Ujiri incident in Oakland, and giving back to Canada From YouTube Channel: October 27, 2020 at 05:10PM ONN – Danny Green shared his thoughts on having to wait to get his Raptors ring, what he remembers about the Masai Ujiri incident while celebrating winning the Raptors title, […]

Oakland “Ride Out to Vote” Film Inspires Americans to Vote in November 2020 Election

Oakland “Ride Out to Vote” is a collaboration between Brianna Noble, Yoram Savion, and Kyla Searle, the film celebrates democracy as a collective act with nods to the Pony Express Oakland – Today marks the release of Ride Out to Vote (ROTV), a short get-out-the-vote film for online audiences from Brianna Noble of Mulatto Meadows/Humble, […]

City Of Oakland, Youth Speaks Inc. Offer Digital Workshops For Oakland’s Cultural Community

Oakland – The City of Oakland received $36.9 million in State of California CARES Act funding. Through the Oakland CARES Arts Technical Assistance Fund, $193,000 has been allocated to provide technical assistance to help Oakland-based arts organizations and artists develop a robust online digital presence. From November 9 to December 10, Youth Speaks, in partnership […]

Berkeley IGS Poll: Defeat For California Prop 16, Diversity, Prop 21, Rent Control, Unless Young Voters Show

Berkeley IGS Poll: Defeat For California Prop 16, Diversity, Prop 21, Rent Control, Unless Young Voters Show. Was just passed a wake-up call press release on a UC Berkeley Institute Of Government Studies poll that, once again, points to the need for California to split into two states, something that may never happen in this […]

OUSD Provides Eleven Oakland Schools As Polling Locations For November 3 2020 Election

Oakland – With the November 3 election now just 15 days away, people across Oakland are already casting their votes for everything from ballot measures to political offices all the way up to the President and Vice President of the United States. To help Oaklanders exercise their constitutional right to vote, OUSD is providing ten […]

Moms 4 Housing Now A Community & Land Trust-Owned Home – Oakland Councilmember Bas

Oakland District Two Councilmember Nikki Bas’ Digitized Newsletter Last week, I was so moved to see #MomsHouse on Magnolia Street finally become community-owned as permanently affordable, transitional housing for unsheltered mothers. Congratulations to Dominique Walker, Tolani King, Misty Cross, Sameerah Karim and Carroll Fife for leading this movement to end corporate speculation and house more […]

Oakland Community Leaders Speak Up With Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan: Press Conference

Community Leaders Speak Up With Kaplan: Press Conference 10/5/2020 From YouTube Channel: October 6, 2020 at 10:58PM ONN – Oakland Community Leaders Speak Up With Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan: Press Conference Rebecca Kaplan is joined by Community Leaders speaking out against the attempt by wealthy corperations to buy our elections in Oakland and in California. With […]

Rep Barbara Lee Issues Statement On Nov 2020 Endorsements Counters Oakland Mayor Schaaf Voting Guide

Rep Barbara Lee Issues Statement On Nov 2020 Endorsements Counters Oakland Mayor Schaaf Voting Guide ONN – Rep Barbara Lee Issues Statement On Nov 2020 Endorsements Counters Oakland Mayor Schaaf Voting Guide I received an email that contained a statement from U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and here’s the text, verbatim: Statement regarding Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s […]

Early In-Person Voting Begins In Martinez, Oakland, California, Locations Limited – by Richard Haick

Early In-Person Voting Begins In Martinez, Oakland, California, Locations Limited – by Richard Haick From YouTube Channel: October 13, 2020 at 04:02PM ONN – Early In-Person Voting Begins In Martinez, Oakland, California, Locations Limited – by Richard Haick In-person voting in California has began, but you won’t find locations easily. In Alameda County and Contra […]

Early In-Person Voting Begins In California But Locations Limited – by Richard Haick

Early In-Person Voting Begins In California But Locations Limited – by Richard Haick ONN – Early In-Person Voting Begins In California But Locations Limited – by Richard Haick In-person voting in California has began, but you won’t find locations easily. In Alameda County and Contra Costa County, you can only vote at the county office […]

2020 Election: Re-Elect Oakland City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney For District Three

Oakland City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney has served the residents of perhaps the most complicated Oakland City Council District in our city very well. Understand that while District Three is commonly thought of as being only West Oakland, in reality it’s also Downtown Oakland, Uptown Oakland, and Adams Point / Lake Merritt, where I live. […]

Allison Jones Rushing Is Donald Trump’s Couch-Potato Conservative Replacement For RBG

If Donald Trump picks Allison Jones Rushing to replace the legendary, late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it will be the worst pick any President Of The United States has made in recent memory. Why? Because Allison Jones Rushing, the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, is being […]

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