Finance reports flooded in this month, with some campaigns (read: Sheng Thao recall) amassing wealth and others barely getting started.
Category: City Hall
D1, D3, at-large races in Oakland election see big money
While races for City Council seats currently repped by Kaplan, Kalb, and Fife are heating up, most candidates have raised little to no money to date.
The race for Oakland city attorney went from sleepy to competitive this month
Ryan Richardson got a head start in the campaign last year, raising $45,000 so far. Brenda Harbin-Forte announced her run in July.
Piedmont hedge fund exec has bankrolled the effort to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao
Philip Dreyfuss has contributed 4 out of 5 dollars raised by the campaign to remove Oakland’s mayor.
Another milestone reached, but Oakland Coliseum sale ‘far from done’ deal
Mayor Sheng Thao and the African American Sports and Entertainment Group signed a term sheet Tuesday.
Politics roundup: a GrowSF for Oakland, sleepy races heat up, more youth vote delay
Dozens of candidates are leaping into council races while recall and anti-recall campaigns duke it out. Plus, new political groups modeled on San Francisco tech-funded networks promise to ‘structurally fix’ the Town.
Judge overseeing Sheng Thao recall campaign lawsuit suddenly recuses herself
Judge Julia Spain threw out an investigative subpoena against the recall campaign earlier this week. Today, she reversed that order and removed herself from the case.
What does Andy Duong know about widely criticized attack ads in Oakland’s 2022 mayor’s race?
Duong, whose home was raided by the FBI last month, is now resisting a Public Ethics Commission investigation of mailers that blasted Loren Taylor two years ago.
LeRonne Armstrong and another OPD chief were investigated and faulted for leadership failures
The investigation into current City Council candidate Armstrong’s handling of perjury and bribery allegations against a homicide detective has not been made public until now.
OPD gets new software to improve police reporting after crimes
With Mark43, Oakland police should be able to submit more accurate crime statistics to the FBI.
Sheng Thao’s partner Andre Jones is named in the Oakland FBI investigation. Who is he? Hard to say.
Jones has worked in local politics for decades, but surprisingly few people would speak on the record about him.
Global web outage hasn’t impacted Oakland 911, city says
Some flights to and from the San Francisco Oakland International Airport have been cancled or delayed, but most remain on schedule.
What’s the FBI looking for in Oakland? The subpoenas have clues
Subpoenas include lots of legal jargon. We broke down the key information you should know.
City Council revives plan to strengthen Oakland government watchdog
2 councilmembers changed their minds about a ballot measure that would give the Public Ethics Commission more resources.
FBI demands more records from Oakland, including police reports related to Duong family
Federal investigators are now asking for the Oakland Police Department’s telephone directory and federal funding the city has gotten since 2021.
What’s going on in the Oakland FBI investigation? The latest, explained
Grand jury subpoenas, the Oakland Army Base, and Evolutionary Homes— plus Thao and her team talk to the media.
‘I’m not letting off the pedal’: A Q&A with Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao
The Oaklandside sat down with the embattled city leader, to ask her about her dramatic 18 months in office, the FBI raid, her future in Oakland, and other questions on many Oaklanders’ minds.
Figures in Oakland FBI probe traded allegations in letters to port officials
Mario Juarez and David Duong aired out a bitter dispute over Evolutionary Homes’ office space weeks before FBI raids.
Oakland company in FBI crosshairs sought city homeless shelter contracts
Evolutionary Homes and other firms hoping to sell shipping container shelters for homeless residents may have been chasing federal COVID-19 relief funding.
How money corrupts Oakland politics without anyone breaking the law
The city has a solution, but it’s on hold.