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Posts Tagged ‘Donna Powers’

Crude politics: Chevron lost expensive election, but still has plenty of power

By Harriet Rowan | November 28, 2014 | 3
The three Team Richmond candidates, McLaughlin, Beckles and Martinez, sharing a joke on a victorious election night. (Photo by Tom Goulding)

Harriet Rowan and Jimmy Tobias, Richmond Confidential reporters and students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, published an article for The Nation website that explores Chevron’s continuing influence in Richmond after losing big in the election.

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Losing candidates say corporate money may have hurt their campaigns

By Tom Goulding | November 19, 2014 | 7
Just some of the ocean of mailers sent out by campaigns to residents during the 2014 City Council. (Photo by Robert Rogers)

Chevron-funded spending committees backed several losing candidates – to the tune of $3.1 million – on Election Day. Those who were defeated are now left to wonder what happened and whether Chevron’s money may have hurt rather than helped.

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Scenes from an upset: At RPA headquarters, exhaustion and doubt turn to exhilaration

By Tom Goulding | November 6, 2014 | 31

A long and tense day brought an end to an election that looks set to bring a David v Goliath story.

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National Association of Realtors spends big money on the Richmond city election

By Larry Zhou | October 28, 2014 | 2

As of Oct. 24, the National Association of Realtors Fund has reported spending $37,800 supporting Booze, $26,700 supporting Rogers, $26,700 supporting Bates and $26,700 supporting Powers. The expenditure covers the cost of polling, voter list, mailers, telephone calls and online ads.

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Chevron’s Moving Forward spreads big money across political campaign committees

By Harriet Rowan | October 4, 2014 | 21

Chevron’s Moving Forward has funneled $1.9 million into two similarly named campaign committees over the last six weeks. Through those committees, Chevron/Moving Forward has spent $1.2 million in support of Chevron-friendly mayoral and city council candidates and in opposition to candidates more critical of the oil giant. And there’s still a month to go.

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Political battle is waged on the ground via campaign signage

By Bonnie Chan | October 2, 2014 | 3

As political campaigning intensifies ahead of the upcoming mayoral and city council elections, candidates draw criticism for a deluge of political signs flooding the streets of Richmond.

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Mayoral and City Council candidates debate economic vitality at Hilltop Mall

By Fan Fei | September 25, 2014 | 1
Jael Myrick

On Saturday, Richmond mayoral and city council candidates debated plans over how to spur economic vitality at Hilltop Mall. Click through the photo gallery to see what they had to say.

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