SF Politics At Oakland Mayoral Debate, Barbara Lee and Loren Taylor Blame Each Other For the Whole Sheng Thao Mess Both Loren Taylor and Barbara Lee were sharp and well-prepared for Tuesday night’s Oakland mayoral debate, and both crafted arguments that somehow the other was the bigger enabler of the alleged corruption under former mayor Sheng Thao.
SF News Oakland Mayoral Candidate Loren Taylor Reveals He Had Liver Transplant In December Six weeks before the special election to replace former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, candidate Loren Taylor has disclosed that he had a life-threatening liver condition last year, and had a transplant at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.
SF Politics Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is, Indeed, Getting Indicted Less than 24 hours after the FBI raided the home of another East Bay politician in connection with an apparently broad-ranging corruption scandal, we learn that former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is getting federally indicted.
SF Politics No Time to Retire, Barbara Lee Makes Her Bid For Oakland Mayor Official Confirming what was already looking likely earlier this week, recent former Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced Wednesday that she will, indeed, be running for mayor of Oakland in an April special election.
SF Politics Barbara Lee Takes a Formal Step Toward a Running For Mayor of Oakland Recently retired Congresswoman Barbara Lee has just opened a campaign account for a run for Oakland mayor, and she's reportedly close to making a final decision about whether she will seek the job.
SF Politics President of Oakland City Council, Nikki Fortunato Bas, Declares Victory In County Race, Complicating Mayoral Transition Who will be interim mayor of Oakland? That's a more open question now as City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas announced victory in her bid to become an Alameda County supervisor.
SF Politics Recalls of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and DA Pamela Price Appear to Be Passing Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao looks likely to be recalled based on preliminary election results, and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price also looks to be getting recalled, by a wide margin.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Gives Fiery Press Conference, Demands to Know Why the FBI Needed to Raid Her House Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first public statements since last week's FBI raid on her home, offering some stern words for the agency and the proponents of the recall effort, though she did not take questions from the press.
SF News FBI Agents Raid Home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Not sure what's going on here, but hours after a shooting at Lake Merritt, and less than a day after signatures were verified in a recall campaign against her, the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
SF Politics Not One But Two Oakland Mayoral Candidates Have Been Arrested on Gun Charges There are ten candidates vying to be the Mayor of Oakland on the November ballot, and two of them have been arrested on gun charges for incidents that happened in 2021.
SF News A 5 A.M. Protest At Oakland Mayor's Doorstep And Monday March Cap Off Weekend Of Protests Newly inaugurated Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her family were not permitted to sleep in this morning since a group of about 50 protesters gathered at her home to scream at her to
SF News During Prostitution Safety Walk, Mayor Jean Quan Hops In Stranger's Car Who hasn't jumped in a stranger's car thinking it was their ride home? These days everyone is an UberX driver, right? Well, proving she's just like us but with a larger peanut gallery,
SF News 246 People Voted For Peter Liu For Oakland Mayor Just in case you were wondering, it looks like Oakland voters didn't take troll-candidate Peter Liu's candidacy too seriously in Tuesday's election. The gun-toting, gay-hating, horseriding advocate garnered only 246 votes for his
SF News 'Quan Lied' Front and Center on NYT Homepage Oakland mayor Jean Quan is standing firm. She is not resigning, or so she announced on Friday, after she was booed off the City Hall stage Thursday and after she was largely responsible
SF News Jean Quan Is Oakland's First Female (and Asian American) Mayor It's official: City Councilwoman Jean Quan has won the Oakland mayor's race, beating out Don Perata in the ranked-choice voting tally by a margin of 51% to 49% (a little more than 2,
SF News Perata Leads Oakland Mayor's Race, Final Tally Due Friday Former state senator Don Perata has a fair lead in the race for Mayor of Oakland, with city councilwoman Jean Quan trailing behind by 11 percentage points. Perata holds 35% of the vote
SF News Lacking (Viable) African-American Candidates for Mayor, Black Churches in Oakland Rally Behind Jewish Lesbian In a twist that is so very Bay Area, the candidate for mayor who's increasingly becoming the favorite among black churches in Oakland is Rebecca Kaplan, a Jewish lesbian City Council member who
SF News Zennie Weighs In About Dellums 'Avoiding' Re-Election You may have heard by now, if you follow East Bay headlines, that Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums has decided not to seek re-election. This comes as a great surprise, and disappointment to CityBrights
