Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, will co-host the third annual “Clean Slate” record remedies summit, a day of free legal advice and assistance to help formerly incarcerated people clear up criminal records and put their past behind them, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 3 at Berkeley High School, 2223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

Besides Lee, those taking part will include Assemblyman Sandre Swanson, D-Oakland; Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson; Alameda County Superior Court judges Gordon Baranco and Trina Thompson; and representatives from the Alameda County Superior Court, Alameda County District Attorney’s and Public Defender’s offices, All of Us Or None, and the East Bay Community Law Center.

Lee is scheduled to speak during the 9 a.m. opening ceremony; she, Thompson and others will hand out certificates of rehabilitation to some of the program’s success stories from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; and workshops for the yet-to-be-rehabilitated will run from 1 to 3 p.m.

Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe — Democratic National Committee chairman from 2001 to 2005 and a noted FOB whom Al Gore once called “the greatest fund-raiser in the history of the universe” — will join state Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Democratic strategist Chris Lehane in headlining the 37th Annual Alameda County Democratic Unity Dinner tomorrow night (Saturday, Oct. 13) at the Oakland Airport Hilton; state Democratic Party chairman Art Torres will emcee.

Cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., all for the sum of $75 per person, $125 per patron or $750 per table in advance, though a few $85 door tickets will be in play, too; “unity” means “war chest.”

Lockyer, being from Hayward, is a fixture at Alameda County events, but McAuliffe ranks among the national party’s most effective fundraising heavy hitters. CNN has reported McAuliffe once wrestled a 280-pound alligator to collect $15,000 from Florida’s Seminole Indian tribe. Now he’s heading up a campaign for a candidate who at present is well ahead in the money race and in the polls.

And San Francisco-based Lehane — who helped the Clinton White House spin the Whitewater investigation, spoke for Al Gore on the 2000 presidential campaign trail and advised former Gov. Gray Davis during the 2001 energy crisis and 2002 gubernatorial campaign — with partner Mark Fabiani earned the sobriquet “Masters of Disaster” for an uncanny ability to spin public opinion even in the face of political crises, often by digging up dirt on embattled clients’ critics.

The Alameda County Republican Central Committee in March had invited a couple of African-American clergy members to speak at its monthly meeting, as part of its outreach to minority communites. Next Tuesday, May 15, it’ll be the Latino community’s turn to meet and greet with the GOP; Charles Hargrave — who’s piloting this outreach while launching his campaign to unseat Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, in 2008 — said three speakers are expected to attend the committee’s 6:30 p.m. meeting at its San Leandro headquarters:

Hargrave said he’s planning to invite Asian-American community members to attend June’s meeting.

The Alameda County Republican Party has landed quite a windfall.

The California Republican Party will ante up $2,000 per month toward the cost of a county party’s executive director — a full-timer who can spearhead voter registration, get-out-the-vote campaigns, volunteer efforts and so on — so long as that county matches that amount. But campaign finance reports show the Alameda County GOP had only about $11,600 in its account as of Dec. 31.

At the county central committee’s meeting Tuesday night at party headquarters in San Leandro, Luis Buhler — the state GOP’s Bay Area vice chair — announced he’d solicited help from John Dillon, CEO of Navis, an Oakland-based supply-chain software company: Dillon will give $24,000 over two years, or half the county’s cost.

Presenting the committee with Dillon’s first check for $12,000, Buhler said Dillon made the donation because he appreciates the county GOP’s importance in two key races for 2008: the campaign to retake the 11th Congressional District seat from freshman Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, and the campaign to keep the 15th Assembly District seat — now held by Guy Houston, D-San Ramon, who’s termed out next year — in Republican hands.