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2014 COUNTERPOINTS COLUMNS Thoughts On The Oakland Mayoral Election Aside from who won or lost,
who did well or poorly in the race? Niggas, Bitches, Hoes, And Steven Tavares An East Bay political
columnist's mysoginy and anti-Black racism on his Twitter
account Oakland Needs To Clean Up Its Own Trash Oakland got mugged by Waste
Management in the awarding of the city's new waste disposal
contract—do we have to be stuck with that? What Does AB&I Foundry Want From Oakland City Government? The company and its employees
have made thousands of dollars in contributions to candidates in
this year's mayoral election, as well as in past Oakland city
elections A Word Of Caution About Judging The Results Of That New Oakland Mayoral Election Poll Rebecca Kaplan's lead is not
so "commanding" as local news media headlines would make you
think Chip Johnson's Garbage Fantasy In which the Chronicle
columnist imagines that Oakland City Council's decision to dump
the Waste Management contract was done in anger, only In The Face Of Continued Kaplan Silence, More Campaign Finance Allegations Emerge Payments were made to Kaplan's
ballot measure campaign committee by two companies renegotiating
contracts with Oakland Did We Win, Lose, Or Draw In The A's Lease Negotiations? Difficult to answer, since
it's not sure what we were actually trying to accomplish, other
than keeping the A's here for a few more years Ms. Kaplan's Silence Is Not An Option The Oakland City Councilmember
and Oakland mayoral candidate needs to speak to the allegations
of campaign finance money laundering Assessing The Political Damage From Ms. Quan's Driving Difficulties We can
all agree that Ms. Quan's recent minor, non-injury
fender-bender in West Oakland has certainly done some
political damage to the mayor already Ms. Quan's Difficult Path To Re-Election Ms.
Quan’s present electoral difficulties are a combination of the
political and the mathematical, complicated by Oakland’s
ranked-choice voting system that was put in place four years
ago Who Is Mr. Bryan Parker And What Would He Do As Mayor Of Oakland? An East Bay Express
Article Goes In The Wrong Direction In Examining The Record Of
The Rising Candidate For Oakland Mayor Ms. Quan's Public Safety Town Hall Meetings When The Mayor Starts Holding
Official Community Meetings In An Election Year, You Know The
Campaign Has Begun The Willie Brown Bridge? Oh, Please! Why There Are Better Choices
For The Naming Of The Newly-Built Eastern Span Of The Bay Bridge
The Most Important Issue In The Oakland Mayoral Race The San Francisco
Chronicle Says It's Crime, And I Agree (With Additions
And Explanation) Current
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THOUGHTS ON THE OAKLAND MAYORAL ELECTION November 13 , 2014 Some more thoughts on the 2014 Oakland mayoral
election before we move into the Mayor Libby Schaaf era: Ms. Quan’s public pledge of cooperation in the transition from the Quan Administration to the Schaaf Administration will be good for Oakland government and, therefore, good for Oakland as a whole. We have seen how the refusal of Republicans and conservatives to accept the presidency of Barak Obama has paralyzed the national government and, in turn, prevented it from passing needed legislation that in previous years would have gotten bi-bartisan support. We should fight like hell for our principles and policies, without a doubt but we should also be wise enough to work out compromises where such compromises do not violate those principles, and can do the most good for the many. [More...]
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