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Democratic darling Nadia Lockyer resigns in wake of sex tape scandal

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in Democratic Party, Nadia Lockyer, Orange County, Santa Ana 2 Comments

“Battling addiction and the humiliation of a highly publicized altercation in a Newark hotel room with a former lover she met in a rehab program, Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer abruptly resigned Friday,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

You might recall that Nadia Lockyer used to be a player in the Democratic Party of Orange County, back when her name was Nadia Maria Davis. According to a bio, she “was a member of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’s legal team and protected the voting rights of new citizens against unfounded accusations. She ran Honorable Lou Correa’s fundraising in his first bid for State Assembly.” Correa lost that race. Continue reading→

Will sex tape prod force SAUSD Trustee Nadia Lockyer out of politics?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2010 Elections, california, Democratic Party, Orange County, Politics, Santa Ana, Women Leave a comment

Good grief. Just when you thought the Nadia Lockyer affair and rehab scandal could not get any worse, a sex tape has allegedly emerged, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which reported that Nadia’s husband, California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, “believed that the man, who has a history of arrests for alleged methamphetamine use, might make the tape public if forced to break off a romantic relationship with the supervisor.”

Bill accused Nadia’s “ex-lover” of beating her up after she met him at a motel. “Stephen Chikhani (pictured above), the man Nadia Lockyer is accusing of attacking her, denied her account. He told the Oakland Tribune that the only truths were “that I have a record and that they were separated. … Pretty much everything else was made up by her husband.” The 35-year-old San Jose man has not been charged,” according to the Oakland Tribune, which refused to endorse Nadia when she ran for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in 2010. Continue reading→

Nadia Davis-Lockyer outspent Meg Whitman, in her supervisorial campaign

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2010 Elections, california, Democratic Party, Politics, Santa Ana, Women 5 Comments

Do you remember former SAUSD Trustee Nadia Davis? She married Bill Lockyer, the California Treasurer, a much older man who has been involved in Sacramento politics for decades. He was in fact first elected in 1973. Davis-Lockyer graduated college in 1993, when she was presumably about 22 years old at the time, which means that she was born in about 1972. So her husband was first elected to office, when she was about one year old.

Last year Lockyer helped Davis-Lockyer win a campaign for a Supervisorial Seat in Alameda County. Now we know how much she had to spend to win that seat. According to campaign finance forms filed late last month, the new District 2 supervisor spent more than $1.8 million on her campaign and easily beat her challenger — former state Sen. Liz Figueroa — to replace retired Supervisor Gail Steele, according to the Oakland Tribune.

To make this an even nuttier story, Davis-Lockyer ran against one of her hubby’s ex-girlfriends, Liz Figueroa. We wrote about that previously.

In the end, Davis-Lockyer received 64 percent of the vote — 37,086 votes. The spending numbers break down to $48.65 per vote, dwarfing the $6.81 Figueroa spent per vote and even outdoing the $43.25 per vote that failed GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, the former chief executive officer of eBay spent.

The outrageous amount of money spent by Davis-Lockyer came partially from her hubby, Bill, who personally donated $1.53 million to the campaign. It was such a disgusting amount of money that the incumbent, Steele, who retired, endorsed Figueroa, even though she rarely endorses candidates.

Everyone involved in this tale, by the way, hails from the Democratic Party.

The big money campaign spending in the race — likely one of the largest amounts ever seen in the state for a county supervisor’s seat — caused the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to adopt a campaign-finance reform ordinance to regulate the way candidates for county offices raise money.

Click here to read Davis-Lockyer’s official bio, on her Supervisorial website.

Former SAUSD Trustee Nadia Davis to face her husband’s ex-girlfriend in November

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Art Pedroza Posted in Democratic Party, Elections, Politics, Santa Ana Leave a comment

Nadia Lockyer and Bill Lockyer

Remember former SAUSD Trustee Nadia Davis? We wrote recently about her campaign for County Supervisor in Alameda. She got caught lying about her job but went on to get the most votes in the primary, on Tuesday.

Davis is now married to Bill Lockyer, who is about old enough to be her father. He spent a fortune trying to get her elected. Here’s the rub. Davis is now going to have to face her runner-up, Liz Figueroa, in a November run-off. But get this, Lockyer used to date Figueroa! Awkward!

When Bill Lockyer and Liz Figueroa served together as Alameda County’s state senators in the 1990s, they were also, as the gossip columnists like to say, “an item,” according to the Sacramento Bee. Continue reading→