{"id":369113,"date":"2026-06-21T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/369113\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:09:09","slug":"latest-line-a-good-week-for-aisha-wahab-a-bad-week-for-sergio-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/369113\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest line: A good week for Aisha Wahab, a bad week for Sergio Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/arrow.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aisha Wahab<\/p>\n<p>Democratic East Bay state senator wins most votes in special election to succeed Eric Swalwell, who quit Congress in April following sexual assault allegations. She heads now to Aug. 18 runoff as the front-runner.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/arrowdown.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sergio Lopez<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Valley Transportation Authority feels the heat after civil grand jury reports VTA did not control financial risks and has done poor oversight of the over-budget $13 billion BART-to-San Jose project.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/arrow-sideways.png\" \/>Christine Boles<\/p>\n<p>Mayor of Pacifica scores as Rep. Sam Liccardo promises to seek federal funds to fix Pacifica Pier, which closed amid major cracks. But Pacifica\u2019s failure to properly maintain the pier for years contributed to its failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aisha Wahab Democratic East Bay state senator wins most votes in special election to succeed Eric Swalwell, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[44502,3767,148910,88,90,89,5539],"class_list":["post-369113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-aisha-wahab","tag-bart","tag-pacifica-pier","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-vta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}