Oakland is about to go from a corrupt—just indicted—Mayor, to an incompetent Marxist Mayor. Barbara Lee, like LA Mayor Bass, is enamored with Fidel Castro. This is a dead town. As a member of Congress, she supported illegal aliens, high taxes, NO OIL and racist policies.
“It bears mention that Lee strongly opposed Thao’s recall.
“Whether it’s two governors or local elected officials, I’ve always opposed recalls, and oppose the recalls on our Nov. 5 ballot,” wrote Lee.
“They’re undemocratic, costly, and chaotic,” she said. “They prevent our officials from governing and deplete badly needed resources from our communities.”
Lee continued: “The voters – through regular elections, not a few billionaires – are the ones with the power to ensure our democratic process remains strong and in place.”
“Now is the time to come together and work to address the real and serious issues facing our communities.”
Lee supported corruption by opposing the Recall. What did you expect of a Marxist/Democrat.
Barbara Lee Announces Run for Mayor of Oakland As It Hasn’t Suffered Nearly Enough Lately
By Jerry Wilson, RedState, 1/18/25 https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2025/01/18/barbara-lee-announces-run-for-mayor-of-oakland-as-it-hasnt-suffered-nearly-enough-lately-n2184500
Former Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), who recently retired from the House of Representatives after 27 years on the Hill, has announced she is running for the freshly vacated Mayor of Oakland, California position. This comes on the heels of Oakland’s most recent mayor, Sheng Thao, who voters recalled in November 2024, facing an indictment filed on January 17, 2025, on federal bribery and fraud charges.
Lee strongly denounced Thao, albeit not by name, after the indictment’s announcement.
The allegations contained in the criminal indictment are devastating. There should be no tolerance whatsoever for secret pay to play schemes that erode the public trust. Oaklanders expect and deserve leaders who have only one agenda—honest, accountable leadership that serves the people of Oakland. Every individual is entitled to constitutional protections and a presumption of innocence, but City Hall must never be for sale. We need a fresh start in Oakland. Our local governance and political system must be beyond reproach. Every Oaklander deserves no less.
Exactly how electing someone who represented Oakland for 27 years constitutes a fresh start remains unexplained.
It bears mention that Lee strongly opposed Thao’s recall.
“Whether it’s two governors or local elected officials, I’ve always opposed recalls, and oppose the recalls on our Nov. 5 ballot,” wrote Lee.
“They’re undemocratic, costly, and chaotic,” she said. “They prevent our officials from governing and deplete badly needed resources from our communities.”
Lee continued: “The voters – through regular elections, not a few billionaires – are the ones with the power to ensure our democratic process remains strong and in place.”
“Now is the time to come together and work to address the real and serious issues facing our communities.”
This makes sense, given the amount and severity of problems that have accumulated in Oakland over the past 27 years. One can only wonder what the politicians allegedly running the government on any level — federal, state, or local — designed to serve the people of Oakland have been doing all this time aside from watching the Raiders, Warriors, and A’s leave town.
Oh, wait, Lee has been in office all this time? Go figure.
What has Lee accomplished for Oakland in the past 27 years? Despite substantially lower pricing than San Francisco for office space — $51.74 per square foot as compared to San Francisco’s $62.20 — Downtown Oakland has, at last tally, a 26.9% vacancy rate for businesses. Crime in the city is so bad that in February 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom sent in the California Highway Patrol to attempt at least lowering the number of robberies and other offenses. One website, after compiling available data from sources such as the FBI, concluded that one out of ten Oakland residents could expect to be the victim of property theft, while one in 28 could expect to be the victim of a violent offense. Where was Barbara Lee for all this? And now she will solve all of Oakland’s problems as mayor? Right.
All the more embarrassing is that Lee will most likely easily win the election on April 15, 2025. A certain addiction to political mediocrity permeates the city Gertrude Stein accurately described when she said, “There’s no there there.” Nor shall there ever be if local voters keep reelecting to different positions the same failures that have dragged them down for years while posing as the people’s champions.
Can Oakland do any worse with Barbara Lee? Maybe but anything else is a close second. Never mentioned as to why the Oakland A’s vacated Oakland is that the stadium complex which used to host the SF Warriors was very dangerous place to be, day or night. I haven’t been to an Oakland A’s game in over 20 years. I will attend the West Sacramento games because it isn’t in Sacramento proper, rather a suburb across the river.
Oakland might as well close the city boundaries and declare it toxic. Law and order will never prevail when politicians that have flushed thru the city won’t prosecute criminals, and the governor lets them out when they do.
Even though the next time I visit the Bay Area will be the first(actually, that’s true of Northern California as a whole), I know enough about Barbara Lee to know that, as rotten as she who was recently recalled may have been, Lee is at best bad enough and beyond words at worst. Also, as bad as Los Angeles has been in recent decades, I have been able to hold my head up high and say, “It’s Red state America if you try to compare to the Bay Area”. As much as I LOATHE Karen Bass, who may be the proverbial gift to give the Right here in Los Angeles when we vote for mayor next year, Lee seems to be at best as bad as Bass(or barely less so) and worse than Bass at worst. However, I find it interesting that Lee wants to have her cake and eat it too regarding the gal she wants to succeed as mayor. She hates her guts enough to poo-poo her, but is upset she got recalled. Most people see recalls as a last resort, which she needs to get through her thicker than a milk shake skull, and recalls are not only NOT held every day or held often, or what passes for often, but are a last resort and she knows it.