SF Politics Former Congresswoman Jackie Speier Can't Stay Away From Politics, Will Run For County Supervisor Not long after retiring from Congress, former San Mateo County Rep. Jackie Speier is running for office again, this time for the same county supervisor seat she held almost 40 years ago.
SF Politics Retired Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier Joins Local TV Station KGO As Political Analyst Longtime Bay Area House Rep. Jackie Speier, who just ended a 15-year stint in Congress, has revealed her next chapter, and it is going to keep her on local TV screens talking politics for the foreseeable future.
SF Politics Meet Kevin Mullin, Who Just Won Jackie Speier’s Longtime Congressional Seat As Rep. Jackie Speier leaves Congress after 15 years, her peninsula and South Bay seat has been won by her endorsed candidate and former state Senate staffer Kevin Mullin.
SF Politics Bay Area Reps Jackie Speier and Barbara Lee Proudly Get Arrested at D.C. Abortion Rights Protest If you need another reason to love peninsula and East Bay congressional representatives Barbara Lee and Jackie Speier, they just blocked a street and got arrested Tuesday at a Washington, D.C. abortion rights rally.
SF Politics Rep. Jackie Speier, Whose Political Career Began at Jonestown, Announces Retirement at Age 71 "It's time for me to come home, time for me to be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend," said longtime Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier.
SF Politics As Possible Outbreak Grows, Bay Area House Reps Call Out Republicans Who Refused to Wear Masks During Capitol Siege The gathering in close quarters of members of Congress on January 6 — in an undisclosed safe room while a pro-Trump mob invaded the Capitol Building — could potentially have been a super-spreader event.
SF News Jackie Speier’s Revived Equal Rights Amendment Passes House, Has Tiny Chance in Senate The ERA was OK’d by the House of Representatives Thursday morning, some 50 years after it was introduced Rep. Martha Griffiths (pictured at right).
SF News Local Politicos React To Trump's Firing Of James Comey Yesterday President Trump took the dramatic step of firing FBI Director James Comey, a move that many in particular the editorial board of the New York Times are declaring a turning point in
SF News Hillary Clinton Coming To Speak In San Francisco In Two Weeks Almost-president Hillary Clinton will be arriving in the Bay Area the week after next to deliver a keynote address at the 28th annual Professional BusinessWomen of California (PBWC) conference at the Moscone Center
SF News Kamala Harris Will Go After Boxer's Senate Seat California's newly reelected Attorney General and former SF District Attorney Kamala Harris will, as predicted, be vying for the Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer in 2016. She has succeeded in brokering
SF News Is This Science Magazine Cover Transphobic? Congresswoman Jackie Speier Says Yes Science magazine put transgender sex workers in Jakarta on its cover this month with an objectifying image that cuts off their heads and focuses on their tight dresses, long legs, and high heels.
SF News Jackie Speier Beams Praises Death of Al Qaeda's Anwar al-Awlaki Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo), Member on the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the House Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement Friday after the U.S.-backed assassination of
SF News Rep. Speier Makes Statement On Obama's Decision to No Longer Defend DOMA After news broke that Obama will no longer defend DOMA (Defense Of Marriage Act), Rep. Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Maeo) released the following statement: The Declaration of Independence got it right—we
SF News Jackie Speier Decides Not to Run for Attorney General The Sacto Bee announced today that U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier will not to run for California attorney general. "She's going to remain in Congress where she can focus on issues that she
SF News Remembering Jonestown: Post Office Renamed / Memorial Unveiled Today was the 30-year anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Days before more than 900 member of the Peoples Temple church committed suicide or were murdered in Guyana, former congressman Leo Ryan was killed
SF News Speier To Fill Lantos' Seat Making her move at juuust the right time, Jackie Speier is a shoo-in to fill Tom Lantos' seat by April 8 if she gathers a majority of votes in a special, pre-primary election.
misc San Francisco Congressman Lantos, RIP Congressman Tom Lantos died this morning from esophageal cancer at the age of 80. He represented most of the Sunset, as well as a big chunk of San Mateo County. He was the
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Why, it's our very own SFist Rita kicking it in the comfy confines (and breaking down the latest season of Project Runway) over at SFGate. Awesome. [Culture Blog] -- Japantown's J-Pop Center,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --The Stars and Garters Theater is throwing a fundraiser party, complete with trapeze artists, short films, the Robber Bridegroom band, burlesque performances, and a raffle, to raise money for its upcoming
SF News Follow The Money ... to ... uh ... Someplace. Alas, there's nothing too damning that we could find on our local pols. Leland Yee got a lot of money from firefighters and voted in their interests 97% of the time. But was
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple</i> Anyone who's interested in San Francisco history must see this movie. Director and MacArthur genius grant recipient Stanley Nelson (who previously directed the Emmy-award-winning ) has put together a sensitive and thoughtful history of
