⇒ John Bauters wants to be your County Supervisor.
⇒ But he isn’t who he says he is.
⇒ Bauters just can’t be trusted.
Bauters is anti-labor: he led efforts to overturn the minimum wage increase and is opposed by Alameda Labor Council.
As an Emeryville City Councilmember, John Bauters said he was on the side of working families but he wasn’t. Bauters led the charge to overturn a minimum wage increase that labor leaders fought for, and attempted to cap wages for certain workers! Labor unions and working families OPPOSE John Bauters because he can’t be trusted to be on the side of working families.
“Councilman John Bauters, who had proposed the amendment to pause the wage increase…”
[Source: “Emeryville minimum wage rises to $16.30 for all businesses,” East Bay Times, 7/25/2019
“Councilmember Bauters led a drive to drive down the wages of the poorest working people in Emeryville when as mayor, he rolled back Emeryville’s landmark and progressive Minimum Wage Ordinance. Actual low paid workers struggling to make it on minimum wage were going to have their wages cut if Bauters had been successful.”
[Source: “Labor Day Lies From Bauters and Welch, Bauters’ Audacious Labor Day Message, Emeryville Tattler, 9/2/2024
See the mailing Labor sent opposing Bauters here!
[Sources: “Emeryville minimum wage rises to $16.30 for all businesses,” East Bay Times, 7/25/2019; https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/07/25/emeryville-minimum-wage-rises-to-16-30-for-all-businesses/; “Labor Day Lies from Bauters and Welch/ Bauters’ Audacious Labor Day Message, Emeryville Tattler, 9/2/204; https://emeryvilletattler.blogspot.com/2024/09/; “City Council Cuts Wages of Working Poor,” Emeryville Tattler, 5/29/2019; https://emeryvilletattler.blogspot.com/2019/05/breaking-news-city-council-cuts-wages.html; “Emeryville repeals ordinance that would have lower minimum wage, “San Francisco Chronicle, 7/23/2019; https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Emeryville-repeals-ordinance-that-would-have-14118488.php]
Under Bauters, Emeryville was named America’s #1 most dangerous small town and California’s most dangerous city
Bauters says he is “committed to restoring public safety in Alameda County,” but under his watch Emeryville has been named “America’s #1 most dangerous small town” and “California’s most dangerous city” in multiple recent years because of its high crime rates.
And Bauters once said defunding police was “a prudent question to ask….”
[Source: League of Women Voters candidate forum; The E’ville Eye, 1/22/2021; https://evilleeye.com/news-commentary/local-government/election-coverage/defunding-the-epd-family-flight-ghost-malls-emeryvilles-echo-chamber-on-display-at-candidate-forum/]
[Sources: “America’s #1 most dangerous small town is in the Bay Area: SafeWise report,” KRON4, 10/22/2021; https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/americas-1-most-dangerous-small-town-is-in-the-bay-area-safewise-report/; “Most Dangerous Small Towns in the U.S.,” https://www.farandwide.com/s/most-dangerous-small-towns-us-8699063050f14053]
Bauters is bought and paid for by developers, even being called a ‘developers’ shill.
Special interests are spending big to elect Bauters – showing Bauters is bought and paid for by special interests. His biggest donors are developers and cannabis, pharmaceutical and cryptocurrency executives.
An Independent Expenditure Committee supporting Bauters is almost entirely funded by corporate interests, including $10,000 from PG&E and thousands more from big developers. No wonder a pro-developer group once listed Bauters among “Developer Shills.”
[Sources: Alameda County Netfile campaign finance database, https://www.netfile.com/static/agency/coa/; John Bauters for County Supervisor 2024, ID 1465352 campaign finance reports; Bauters for a Safer East Bay, ID 1465404 campaign finance reports; “Emeryville’s Mayor, Vice Mayor Called Out As “Developer Shills” by Local Media,” The Emeryville Tattler, 4/8/2023; https://emeryvilletattler.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-most-yimby-mayor-vice-mayor-in-most.html]
While running on an affordable housing platform, NOT A SINGLE Unit of affordable housing has been completed through initiatives proposed by Bauters.
John Bauters HAS FAILED on affordable housing. Under Bauters, almost all of the apartment units approved in Emeryville have been market-rate, while developers have donated tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns and a PAC supporting his supervisor campaign.
Not a single unit of affordable housing has been built with the funds from the single ballot measure that Bauters claims he helped pass. Voters approved Measure C, a $50 million affordable housing bond, in 2018, but not a single unit of affordable housing has been built with the funds. And a 91-unit project planned with the money will cost an estimated $1 million per unit.
[Sources: Alameda County Netfile campaign finance database, https://www.netfile.com/static/agency/coa/; John Bauters for County Supervisor 2024, ID 1465352 campaign finance reports; Bauters for a Safer East Bay, ID 1465404 campaign finance reports; The E’ville Eye, 3/4/2024; https://evilleeye.com/news-commentary/politics/john-bauters-tough-on-crime-pivot-will-it-help-him-advance-in-county-supervisor-race/; Measure C Expenditure Plan; https://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/13878; Emeryville press release, 4/25/2023; https://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1281&ARC=2454; EAH Housing Update; https://www.eahhousing.org/4300sanpablo/]
Bauters is funded by Republican donors and special interests. A cryptocurrency executive and GOP supporter appears to be one of his special interest friends.
John Bauters is financed by a major donor whose corporate PAC has given tens of thousands of dollars to national Republicans.
Cryptocurrency executive Jesse Pollack has given Bauters a whopping $40,000 – and gave another $5,000 to the Coinbase, Inc. Innovation PAC, a special interest Committee that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to some of the most conservative Republicans: $5,000 to the National Republican Campaign Committee; $5,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee; $2,500 to Senator Tim Scott’s Tomorrow is Meaningful PAC, $2,500 to GOP Rep. Steve Scalise and $1,000 to Rep. Andy Barr of Kentucky. Pollack’s PAC gave twice as much to Republicans as Democrats in the 2022 cycle ($31,000 to $16,000) and has given Republicans another $15,000 in the 2024 cycle so far! Breaking News…Konstantin Richter, the founder of Blockdaemon, a blockchain platform made a $20,000 campaign contribution to John Bauter’s campaign recently!.
Coinbase Innovation PAC donations to Republican Party PACs in the 2023/2024 cycle:
| Recipient | Total |
| Republican Main Street Partnership | $5,000 |
| National Republican Congressional Cmte | $5,000 |
| National Republican Senatorial Cmte | $5,000 |
| Scalise Leadership Fund | $2,500 |
| Tomorrow Is Meaningful PAC/Federal(Affiliate: Tim Scott (R-SC) | $2,500 |
Coinbase Innovation PAC donations to Republican candidates in the 2023/2024 cycle:
| Candidate | Total |
| Glenn Thompson (R-Pa) | $2,500 |
| Andy Barr (R-Ky) | $1,000 |
| Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) | $1,000 |
| Erin Houchin (R-Ind) | $1,000 |
| Brian Jack (R-Ga) | $1,000 |
| Dusty Johnson (R-SD) | $1,000 |
| David P Joyce (R-Ohio) | $1,000 |
| Mike Lawler (R-NY) | $1,000 |
| Max Miller (R-Ohio) | $1,000 |
| Blake Moore (R-Utah) | $1,000 |
| Jason Smith (R-Mo) | $1,000 |
| Bryan Steil (R-Wis) | $1,000 |
Coinbase Innovation PAC donations to Republican candidates in the 2021/2022 cycle:
| Candidate | Total |
| Tom Emmer (R-Minn) | $2,900 |
| Patrick McHenry (R-NC) | $2,900 |
| Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) | $1,500 |
| French Hill (R-Ark) | $1,500 |
| Bill Huizenga (R-Mich) | $1,500 |
| David Schweikert (R-Ariz) | $1,500 |
| Glenn Thompson (R-Pa) | $1,500 |
[Sources: Federal Election Commission; opensecrets.org PAC Profile: Coinbase: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/coinbase/C00804179/candidate-recipients/2024; CRYPTO CONTRIBUTION: East Bay Insiders Newsletter: https://eastbayinsiders.substack.com/i/148673707/campaign-finance]
Pollak’s donation to the Coinbase PAC:
[Source: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202404309636872149]
Are you sure about this guy?
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