Barbara Lee.
Posted on 04/22/2025 7:28:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) has won the special election for Oakland mayor in a close contest over “moderate” Loren Taylor, giving “progressives” hope and defying efforts by Democrats to shift their party to the center.
Lee, 78, defeated Taylor, 47, thanks to late-arriving postal ballots, after Taylor led on Election Night. She will take the helm of a city suffering from poor left-wing governance in the wake of a corruption scandal involving former mayor Sheng Thao, also a “progressive.”
Oakland had recently begun to emerge from the shadows of San Francisco — its wealthier, glitzier neighbor across the Bay — when the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement took it right back to the bad old days of political radicalism and urban decay.
Lee, a standard-bearer for the left after casting the lone vote in Congress against the war in Afghanistan in 2001, represents that old-school, 1960s-era radicalism. She ran unsuccessfully against Adam Schiff for Senate, but found traction in Oakland, where she was seen, the New York Times noted, “as a trusted and experienced voice who could stabilize Oakland and help guide it out of crisis.”
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Of course. Isn't it always thus?
And will remain a cesspool of crime due to liberal wokeness for the foreseeable future.
BLee is your typical CaCaLand politico — anyone to the right of here is a Nazi by the standards of the DNC.
Yes, Oakland is lost as an example of civilization. It is a cancer.
Electoral cheating
Moronic Oakland voters can’t help themselves. Morons gonna be morons.
There must be a grand jury investigation. Old politicians can’t stop swimming, or they die. Too many lies to stay out in front of to retire in peace.
“WTF, Oakland is stuck on stupid forever.”
Democrats are stuck on stupid.
ca has vote fraud down to a science
ca voters will not be able to vote their way out of their socialist hell
late-arriving postal ballots always put the leftist over the top
its the law
Stay on de plantation!
Exactly right. They are defending the status quo even though the status quo is scorched earth.
The corruption that empowers crooked politicians like Barbara Lee is probably one of the reasons the Raiders and A’s left Oakland (though neither team would ever admit it)
Barbara Lee.
This is Los Angeles repeated, the people of LA supposedly elected Karen Bass as Mayor who was supposed to fix everything as a long time US congress member, LA is now 1 billion dollars in the hole, all she did was cut the fire department, take off to Africa and the result was the fire hydrants were dry and city nearly burned to the ground, while she was in Africa.
Oakland has just done the same thing, elected a long time US Congressional Member who supposedly will fix everything. As bad as Oakland is in now, things will get progressively worse in the next 1-2 years.
Oakland = West Chicago
thanks to late-arriving postal ballots, “
Late arriving ballots put her over the top? The other candidate was leading, until a ballot dump happened? Is that what is going on here?
Yes they are hopeless morons but this was an obvious steal. This is why Ca will never go back. The rats have welded the door shut. It is illegal to even ask for ID to vote there.
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