San Mateo county - National campaigning and one local race

A few days off work in Washington brings-in national campaigning.

Everyone loves the Bay Area for campaign money

"President Obama arrives in Bay Area for two-day fundraising trip." Mercury News Media Center, 5/23/12.  "President Barack Obama arrived in the Bay Area on Wednesday evening for another lucrative Silicon Valley campaign fundraising trip. "Redwood City lays out the welcome mat for Obama"  Palo Alto Daily News/Bonnie Eslintger, 5/23/12. "Several hundred people gathered Wednesday afternoon in downtown Redwood City hoping to catch a glimpse of President Barack Obama's evening arrival for a campaign event at the Fox Theater."

"Speaker Boehner makes surprise stop in HMB",  Half Moon Bay Review/Mark Noack, 5/25/12. "The Ohio congressman swept through Half Moon Bay for dinner earlier this week while coming out to the Peninsula on a fundraising tour. Boehner was in the area to speak at a $1,000-a-plate dinner in Woodside to raise money for his upcoming re-election campaign." 
 
"Hill and Lieber stand out in 13th Senate District campaign",  Silicon Valley Mercury News/Aaron Kinney,5/25/12. "In years past Jerry Hill and Sally Lieber would have been fighting desperately by now to knock each other out of the 13th Senate District race, with the winner of next month's primary all but guaranteed a general election victory over token Republican opposition."

Posted by Kathy Meeh