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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Progressive Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao is gearing up to take the reins as the city's next mayor, after defeating more moderate fellow Councilmember Loren Taylor by \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/rovresults/rcv/248/rcvresults.htm?race=Oakland%2F001-Mayor\">the narrowest of margins\u003c/a> last month in the drawn-out, ranked choice voting tally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 37, Thao will not only be one of Oakland's youngest mayors, but also the first Hmong American to lead the city, when she replaces current Mayor Libby Schaaf in January. The UC Berkeley graduate was first elected in 2018 to represent District 4 on the Council (including parts of East Oakland, Montclair and the Oakland hills), and has since become its president pro tempore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Stockton, Thao is the daughter of Laotian refugees and the seventh of 10 children. The family lived for years in public housing. She left home at a young age and for a brief period was unhoused, sleeping in her car with her infant son to escape an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Oakland's next mayor, Thao faces a myriad of challenges, including the city's homelessness crisis, the need to build significantly more affordable housing, and mounting crime. Last week, KQED Political Breakdown's Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer sat down in the studio with the mayor-elect to talk about her life story, her vision for Oakland and how she plans to hit the ground running next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So we want to talk about all your plans for Oakland, but we would like to start with your very compelling life story. Your parents left Laos as refugees. Tell us a little bit about before they came here and had 10 kids. What was their journey like to America?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So when I ran for my City Council seat, it was a lot of community who really pushed me to really run for that seat. And I'll be very honest with you, my response was, 'Well, I don't come from money and I don't look like how politicians look, and I don't talk like them.' But it took the community to really allow me to see that's why I was needed. And that they would help and support. And then I threw my name in the hat, saying, like, 'OK, well, if you're willing to support me and if you feel like I can be best fit in this position, then I will try it.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now I have grown into this politician role, and it's not about a look at all. The problem was that we didn't have enough people with my life experience that look like me or that have you in these positions. And it's important to make sure that we have that diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You were really seen as the progressive candidate in this race. You got a lot of labor support. What does that title mean to you, and what do you think it means to the people who supported you as you enter this office? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I am a progressive. And I think that over many years, somehow being a progressive has been kind of looked down on just because of what people are ascribing to it. But I am a progressive in the sense that I want to move the city forward for working families. I do believe that if we support those who are on the margins, then we all can have a better quality of life. So lifting from the bottom up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does that mean in terms of policies?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what did that mean in regards to policy is renter protections. So I'm a strong advocate of passing strong renter protections and ensuring that renters can have access and pathways to homeownership. We know that's intergenerational wealth. So it's taking down some of those barriers. What that also looks like is making sure our school system is accessible and that they're doing their part in regards to delivering what our students need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it's really about looking at those who are most on the margins to see what resources they need and then making sure that you are delivering those resources. I see all of this as the ecosystem, they're all interconnected. If our kids are safe and kept busy and money in their pockets, then we, for public safety, would be better off for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So how do you think about public safety in Oakland and your relationship with police? Will you keep the police chief? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am going to keep the police chief. Chief LeRonne Armstrong and I have a pretty strong relationship. Even as a council president pro tem, I was able to really champion and author policies that we are seeing that are actually getting us to the numbers that we need to be at. We are funded for 752 officers and for the first time ever, because of the policies that I authored, we're at 700 officers. For me, I think it's a comprehensive approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you talk about public safety, you have to talk about investments directly to communities and investment directly to our youth. I just came out of a meeting where we talked about year-round youth paid jobs. That's also public safety. But the response to me is also incredibly important, being a victim of crime myself, where they broke into my home, saw my son, and they didn't care. They just went forward. It was traumatizing for my son. He's 16 now and he's still traumatized. So the response of feeling like government will respond to things that are traumatic like that is incredibly important to me as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You are going to be following Mayor Libby Schaaf, who's leaving. She did not endorse you. What are your thoughts of her mayoralty? What did she do right? What did she do wrong? And most importantly, what will you do differently? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a hard question, right? Because until you're in the hot seat, you don't know all the nuances that goes on. And there are a lot of nuances. What I can say that I would be different is around our unhoused community. Being a single mom, I know that I wouldn't feel comfortable if I went to a park and it was full of tents. And so for me, it's like we need to have dignified housing. We need to make sure that we are bringing the services to our own house. And that means opening up our public parcels and getting them off our streets, out of the parks and onto these parcels with pallet shelters and electricity. Bring them the services they need so that we can have a safe space for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then at the same time, we have to build, build, build, right? That's affordable housing, deeply affordable housing, social housing, workforce housing and moderate rate housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:25 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Kaplan released a statement congratulating Oakland Mayor-elect Libby Schaaf Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor-elect Schaaf and I share a deep and profound commitment to making Oakland stronger, safer and more prosperous,\" Kaplan said in the statement. \"I'm excited to partner with her on a wide variety of ways to improve the city that she and I both love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last count, Kaplan was in third place behind incumbent Jean Quan and Schaaf. Quan conceded earlier today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County plans to update election results Thursday at 5 p.m. However, none of the 14 other official Oakland mayoral candidates are expected to overtake Schaaf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan and Schaaf plan to hold a joint news conference Thursday morning to talk about collaboration the transition of Oakland's executive office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the race for mayor of Oakland, City Councilwoman Libby Schaaf has claimed that she is the winner. Her fellow Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan in second place. Mayor Jean Quan, who finished third, has conceded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It certainly felt like a victory party last night as Schaaf spoke at her campaign headquarters, “Oakland is a city that has frequently missed the bus when opportunity has come to knock on our door… and doesn’t this feel like it is Oakland’s time finally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday morning Schaaf's campaign released a statement claiming victory:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"I am honored by the tonight’s results and want to thank the people of Oakland for the trust they have placed in me. The people have made it clear that they are looking for progressive leadership and a new direction for Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Schaaf’s confidence seemed to be rewarded Tuesday night. The registrar posted the ranked choice election results with Schaaf garnering 62.8 percent of the vote, and Kaplan in second place with 37.2 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan had been the consistent leader in the polls in this race for weeks. And her campaign manager Jason Overman, was by no means ready to concede this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to speculate an outcome that we don’t know yet,” said Overman. “It would be premature for any candidate to declare anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347101\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10347101 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/libby-1440x1080.jpeg\" alt=\"Libby Schaaf thanked supporters as she maintains her lead in a field of 15. 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Those votes could radically change the results under the ranked choice voting system, in which as candidates with the lowest number of first place votes are eliminated, their supporters’ second and third choices are moved to candidates still in the running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf benefitted from a pair of high-powered endorsements late in the race from Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The endorsements were great,” said Schaaf’s campaign manager Peggy Moore. “But we’ve had a very strong team of volunteers who have been very disciplined and very focused to do the outreach to the voters of Oakland just to introduce them to Libby. And we believed all along that the people who met Libby would like Libby.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile incumbent Mayor Jean Quan told reporters last night that she came from behind in 2010 to beat the frontrunner State Senator Don Perata, and she could do it again. Quan was in third place until the final round of ranked choice counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quan also sounded philosophical about what might be the end of her first and only term as mayor, one marked by turmoil and voter disenchantment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been through some incredibly tough times, and every time something happens where one door closes, the next one opens,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County registrar has said it will take until Thursday or Friday to complete the count of all the mail-in ballots dropped off at polling places on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety was the top issue for most voters, and the candidates all proposed ways to reduce crime, boost police effectiveness and staffing, and maintain gang intervention programs like Ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347098\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/kaplan-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Rebecca Kaplan dances at her election night party. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The campaign is going to be won by volunteers and people door-to-door talking among themselves about what Oakland needs,\" Brown said. \"So, Libby’s been around the city. She went to Skyline [High School]. ... There are a lot of good candidates. I’m not here to point fingers at one or another, other than to say I Know Libby; I think she could do a good job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she was gratified at the governor's support. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now I know that the governor and I share an incredible love, appreciation and fierce pride for the city of Oakland,\" she said. \"We know that this city is so ready to realize it’s incredible potential, but it needs some better leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Jerry Brown -- governor, former state attorney general, former mayor of Oakland, three-time presidential hopeful, former governor and former secretary of state -- is about to throw the weight of his resume behind one of the 15 candidates vying to be the next leader of the East Bay's largest city. Brown is scheduled to make an appearance with Councilmember Libby Schaaf early Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though there's been no official word, the assumption is that the ex-AG/mayor/governor will endorse Schaaf. KQED's Cy Musiker spoke to Schaaf campaign manager Peggy Moore early Monday, and she said she couldn't discuss the purpose of Brown's appearance. Could she confirm that the governor is going to endorse Schaaf -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/my-town/ci_26672421/jerry-brown-endorse-schaaf-oakland-mayors-race\" target=\"_blank\">as the Oakland Tribune is reporting without attribution\u003c/a>? \"I can't do that,\" she told Musiker. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trib notes that Schaaf, whom \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_26560701/oakland-rebecca-kaplan-beats-jean-quan-latest-mayor\" target=\"_blank\">recent polls have shown trailing\u003c/a> Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan and incumbent mayor Jean Quan, has close ties to Brown:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>She served two years as a special assistant to Brown during his second term as Oakland mayor. And several people involved in her campaign have close ties to the governor, most notably Oakland developer John Protopappas, who serves as Schaaf's finance chairman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's endorsement comes on the first day of early voting in Oakland and several weeks after two polls showed Kaplan handily defeating Quan with Schaaf finishing in third or fourth place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf has fared well when it comes to raising money. As of June, she had raised $351,166, which far outpaced the field. Schaaf's campaign on Monday reported having raised $404,547 as of the end of last month. Brown remains very popular in Oakland, but residents who look back fondly on his eight years as mayor haven't been quick to take his advice as to who should hold the office. In 2006, Brown endorsed Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente, who lost to Ron Dellums. Four years later, he endorsed Don Perata, who lost to Quan.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12081_2014-07-11-19.00.50-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148072\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12081_2014-07-11-19.00.50-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Damita Davis Howard talks to people before leading them on a peace march. (Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Damita Davis Howard talks to people before leading them on a peace march. (Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">On Nov. 4, Oakland voters will be ranking their top three choices from among 15 candidates running for mayor. \u003c/span>As part of our Election Watch 2014 coverage, we’re previewing issues on the minds of voters -- among them crime, gentrification and the economy. KQED’s Cyrus Musiker talked to some Oaklanders about what they want from their next mayor. Here are their profiles and comments.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lorie lives in a house with a classic white picket fence in in lower Rockridge, a prosperous neighborhood within earshot of Highway 24 and a BART station. He’s also among the residents who raised funds for a private security patrol, one of many that have sprung up in Oakland, because the police department is stretched too thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By their own admission they don’t have the resources to fully patrol the area,\" he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">And he told me why the security patrol was needed during a walk around his seemingly peaceful block.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Right there is my neighbor who was mugged at gunpoint by three different people on the corner right by my house. Right here that three-plex is a renter who was mugged at gunpoint coming back from Trader Joe’s.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“An extremely important element of any vision for the mayor of Oakland has to be security and public safety,\" Lorie said. \"I would just like to hear that people [the candidates] are thinking about it and looking for creative solutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hear those concerns echoed in the blue-collar Fruitvale district \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">in the words of Jose Dorado.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">He was born and raised in Oakland’s Jingletown neighborhood. And now he owns Dorado’s Tax and Bookkeeping Service, just off Fruitvale Boulevard, and chairs the Maxwell Park Neighborhood Council, a crime prevention group that also acts as a community liaison to the police force.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Dorado keeps a T-shirt hanging in his office bearing the words “Respect Our City,” which he dons when he helps patrol First Friday events.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">I asked him for the top issue he wants the next mayor to deal with.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“First and foremost, as has been the case for many years, is public safety,\" Dorado said. \u003c/span>“There are some merchants that tell me just flatly, 'Look, I look across the street to see when everybody is closing up, because that’s when I close up, because I'm not going to be here alone.'\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I know there would be more business attracted, if in fact we have less crime. And certainly here in the Fruitvale, there would be far more opportunities for businesses to thrive.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148075\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-148075 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Dorado says public safety is Oakland's most important issue. (Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-300x300.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Dorado says public safety is Oakland's most important issue. (Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s violent crime rate has fallen, but a recent poll and these interviews suggest that public safety remains the top issue for voters as they choose the next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Bruce Nye thinks the next mayor should strive to achieve full staffing for the police force of 925 officers, as determined by former Police Chief Anthony Batts. Nye is a board member and co-founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://oaktalk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Make Oakland Better Now.\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“There is one robbery and one burglary investigator assigned to each of the five policing districts in the city of Oakland,\" Nye said. \"So, what can you do with that? Obviously, not very much.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Nye was just as keen for the next mayor to close a terrible chapter in the city’s policing history. The Oakland Police Department has been under federal court supervision for 12 years because of the Riders scandal, at a cost of millions of dollars, as city officials have failed again and again to make good on reforms.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We’ve been hearing for years that success is just around the corner, that we’re going to be out of this within a year,\" Nye said. \"That doesn’t happen. So we really need to have a strategy for the administration for how we end this.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Nye’s group is also worried about a budget deficit and unfunded pension liabilities predicted in a report by Oakland’s former city administrator, Deanna Santana. Nye said he wants to hear how the next mayor will bridge a budget gap totaling more than $1.5 billion.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“And this is a city with a total budget of about a billion dollars a year,\" Nye said. \"So that is an enormous, enormous number.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But no mayor gets to focus on just one issue.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Everybody says crime, crime, crime. But what really needs to happen is we need innovators and not dinosaurs in City Hall.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">These are the words of Konda Mason, the CEO and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.impacthub.net\" target=\"_blank\">Impact Hub Oakland,\u003c/a> a shared workspace and business incubator in a former auto showroom in Oakland’s booming Uptown neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Crime is just about the lack of hope, because resources are not there, because the economic disparity in this town is just huge,\" Mason said. \"And if we want to get to crime, what we need to get to is jobs. Closing that access gap. Given a good job, I can’t believe I’d pick up a gun and take your iPhone.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We need to change the internal culture of City Hall to deal with the 21st century economy. There’s no innovation officer in Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The infrastructure needs rehabilitating.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Mason is one of the voices of Oakland’s new economy. Mark Everton is a voice for an older set of businesses -- the city’s booming restaurant, hotel and tourism trade. Everton wears many hats. He’s general manager of the Waterfront Hotel in Jack London Square, chairs the board of the Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandchamber.com\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> and co-founded the Oakland Restaurant Association. He offers a very short agenda for the next mayor.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Don’t muck with it. What we’ve got going is working. If that could be my mantra to whoever is coming into office. It’s working,\" Everton said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“What we’re really looking for is for the incumbent mayor or for the incoming new mayor to keep that heat alive, to take the steps necessary to allow businesses to flourish and operate, get a handle on our public safety issues, and make sure that public safety is not a detriment to keeping that renaissance we’ve seen in the restaurant and the tourism scene from flourishing,\" he said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">That renaissance and an influx of San Franciscans seeking lower rents has had a downside, though: gentrification.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">That’s one reason I talked to Jessamyn Sabbag, deputy director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandrising.org\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Rising,\u003c/a> a group working in the flatlands of East and West Oakland, areas that have missed out on Oakland’s economic boom.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">When people say Oakland is the new Brooklyn, she says, it often means low-income renters are losing their homes to better-paid workers. So Sabbag wants the next mayor to support a tenants rights measure stalled in the City Council, and the higher minimum wage on the fall ballot.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“For us here at Oakland Rising, the next mayor should be all about \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">providing programs and services and a vision for Oakland, particularly to keep low-income working-class immigrant communities of color who’ve been here for a long time in their homes. And in healthy and safe communities.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“And safe and healthy communities are far more than just cops on the streets, but there is sufficient funding for really good programs and services, ranging from libraries and parks and after-school programs to good economic development that provides living wage jobs so families can support themselves and really thrive. To good health care, to strong education and after-school programs.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“More resilient neighborhoods won’t produce as much crime,\" Sabbag said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This brings us back to public safety, in a neighborhood that’s seen little of downtown’s economic gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Friday evening for the past two years, the Rev. Damita Davis Howard has led a peace march through deep East Oakland, with its high rate of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">On the Friday I attended, about 30 people had gathered from all over Oakland at a tiny church on 86th Avenue. After a prayer, Howard led the march through a neighborhood of iron gates and fierce dogs, and she told me her priority for the next mayor\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“There ought to be a kumbaya of all of the neighborhoods of Oakland. … And if you don’t get the harmony from North Oakland all the way to the San Leandro border, if you don’t think about each and every neighborhood, each and every family, then I think you do an injustice to the whole city,\" Howard said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12080_2014-07-11-19.29.00-1-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148074\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12080_2014-07-11-19.29.00-1-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A peace march goes through East Oakland every Friday evening. 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(Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">On Nov. 4, Oakland voters will be ranking their top three choices from among 15 candidates running for mayor. \u003c/span>As part of our Election Watch 2014 coverage, we’re previewing issues on the minds of voters -- among them crime, gentrification and the economy. KQED’s Cyrus Musiker talked to some Oaklanders about what they want from their next mayor. Here are their profiles and comments.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lorie lives in a house with a classic white picket fence in in lower Rockridge, a prosperous neighborhood within earshot of Highway 24 and a BART station. He’s also among the residents who raised funds for a private security patrol, one of many that have sprung up in Oakland, because the police department is stretched too thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By their own admission they don’t have the resources to fully patrol the area,\" he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">And he told me why the security patrol was needed during a walk around his seemingly peaceful block.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Right there is my neighbor who was mugged at gunpoint by three different people on the corner right by my house. Right here that three-plex is a renter who was mugged at gunpoint coming back from Trader Joe’s.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“An extremely important element of any vision for the mayor of Oakland has to be security and public safety,\" Lorie said. \"I would just like to hear that people [the candidates] are thinking about it and looking for creative solutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hear those concerns echoed in the blue-collar Fruitvale district \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">in the words of Jose Dorado.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">He was born and raised in Oakland’s Jingletown neighborhood. And now he owns Dorado’s Tax and Bookkeeping Service, just off Fruitvale Boulevard, and chairs the Maxwell Park Neighborhood Council, a crime prevention group that also acts as a community liaison to the police force.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Dorado keeps a T-shirt hanging in his office bearing the words “Respect Our City,” which he dons when he helps patrol First Friday events.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">I asked him for the top issue he wants the next mayor to deal with.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“First and foremost, as has been the case for many years, is public safety,\" Dorado said. \u003c/span>“There are some merchants that tell me just flatly, 'Look, I look across the street to see when everybody is closing up, because that’s when I close up, because I'm not going to be here alone.'\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I know there would be more business attracted, if in fact we have less crime. And certainly here in the Fruitvale, there would be far more opportunities for businesses to thrive.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148075\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-148075 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Dorado says public safety is Oakland's most important issue. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Bruce Nye thinks the next mayor should strive to achieve full staffing for the police force of 925 officers, as determined by former Police Chief Anthony Batts. Nye is a board member and co-founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://oaktalk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Make Oakland Better Now.\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“There is one robbery and one burglary investigator assigned to each of the five policing districts in the city of Oakland,\" Nye said. \"So, what can you do with that? Obviously, not very much.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Nye was just as keen for the next mayor to close a terrible chapter in the city’s policing history. The Oakland Police Department has been under federal court supervision for 12 years because of the Riders scandal, at a cost of millions of dollars, as city officials have failed again and again to make good on reforms.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We’ve been hearing for years that success is just around the corner, that we’re going to be out of this within a year,\" Nye said. \"That doesn’t happen. So we really need to have a strategy for the administration for how we end this.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Nye’s group is also worried about a budget deficit and unfunded pension liabilities predicted in a report by Oakland’s former city administrator, Deanna Santana. Nye said he wants to hear how the next mayor will bridge a budget gap totaling more than $1.5 billion.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“And this is a city with a total budget of about a billion dollars a year,\" Nye said. \"So that is an enormous, enormous number.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But no mayor gets to focus on just one issue.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Everybody says crime, crime, crime. But what really needs to happen is we need innovators and not dinosaurs in City Hall.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">These are the words of Konda Mason, the CEO and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.impacthub.net\" target=\"_blank\">Impact Hub Oakland,\u003c/a> a shared workspace and business incubator in a former auto showroom in Oakland’s booming Uptown neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Crime is just about the lack of hope, because resources are not there, because the economic disparity in this town is just huge,\" Mason said. \"And if we want to get to crime, what we need to get to is jobs. Closing that access gap. Given a good job, I can’t believe I’d pick up a gun and take your iPhone.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We need to change the internal culture of City Hall to deal with the 21st century economy. There’s no innovation officer in Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The infrastructure needs rehabilitating.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Mason is one of the voices of Oakland’s new economy. Mark Everton is a voice for an older set of businesses -- the city’s booming restaurant, hotel and tourism trade. Everton wears many hats. He’s general manager of the Waterfront Hotel in Jack London Square, chairs the board of the Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandchamber.com\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> and co-founded the Oakland Restaurant Association. He offers a very short agenda for the next mayor.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Don’t muck with it. What we’ve got going is working. If that could be my mantra to whoever is coming into office. It’s working,\" Everton said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“What we’re really looking for is for the incumbent mayor or for the incoming new mayor to keep that heat alive, to take the steps necessary to allow businesses to flourish and operate, get a handle on our public safety issues, and make sure that public safety is not a detriment to keeping that renaissance we’ve seen in the restaurant and the tourism scene from flourishing,\" he said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">That renaissance and an influx of San Franciscans seeking lower rents has had a downside, though: gentrification.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">That’s one reason I talked to Jessamyn Sabbag, deputy director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandrising.org\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Rising,\u003c/a> a group working in the flatlands of East and West Oakland, areas that have missed out on Oakland’s economic boom.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">When people say Oakland is the new Brooklyn, she says, it often means low-income renters are losing their homes to better-paid workers. So Sabbag wants the next mayor to support a tenants rights measure stalled in the City Council, and the higher minimum wage on the fall ballot.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“For us here at Oakland Rising, the next mayor should be all about \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">providing programs and services and a vision for Oakland, particularly to keep low-income working-class immigrant communities of color who’ve been here for a long time in their homes. And in healthy and safe communities.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“And safe and healthy communities are far more than just cops on the streets, but there is sufficient funding for really good programs and services, ranging from libraries and parks and after-school programs to good economic development that provides living wage jobs so families can support themselves and really thrive. To good health care, to strong education and after-school programs.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“More resilient neighborhoods won’t produce as much crime,\" Sabbag said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This brings us back to public safety, in a neighborhood that’s seen little of downtown’s economic gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Friday evening for the past two years, the Rev. Damita Davis Howard has led a peace march through deep East Oakland, with its high rate of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">On the Friday I attended, about 30 people had gathered from all over Oakland at a tiny church on 86th Avenue. After a prayer, Howard led the march through a neighborhood of iron gates and fierce dogs, and she told me her priority for the next mayor\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“There ought to be a kumbaya of all of the neighborhoods of Oakland. … And if you don’t get the harmony from North Oakland all the way to the San Leandro border, if you don’t think about each and every neighborhood, each and every family, then I think you do an injustice to the whole city,\" Howard said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12080_2014-07-11-19.29.00-1-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148074\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12080_2014-07-11-19.29.00-1-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A peace march goes through East Oakland every Friday evening. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/OAKLAND-CITY-HALL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147041\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-640x420.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of Occupy Oakland activists were living in tents in front of Oakland City Hall in October 2011. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of Occupy Oakland activists were living in tents in front of Oakland City Hall in October 2011. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A staggering number of \u003ca href=\"http://www.opendisclosure.io\" target=\"_blank\">candidates\u003c/a> hoping to become the next mayor of Oakland -- 15 to be exact -- are competing for voters' first, second and third \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/rcv/faq.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ranked choices\u003c/a> at the ballot box in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven of them sat shoulder to shoulder at a forum in West Oakland Thursday night and pitched their platforms for the future of the city while the state's two gubernatorial candidates \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/04/-brown-kashkari-clash-in-debate/\" target=\"_blank\">duked it out\u003c/a> in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates responded to questions on a range of topics -- including public safety, civil rights, race, education and the city's economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been very proud to be the first woman and the first Asian-American mayor of Oakland,\" incumbent candidate Jean Quan said in her opening statement. \"I came in at a really tough time, and most of you know that we were tens of millions of dollars in debt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan said she had successfully moved development in the city, citing a project at the old \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/06/12/97371/oakland_moving_forward_on_redeveloping_oakland_army_base?category=economy\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Army Base\u003c/a> and a plan to build 10,000 new homes, one-quarter that will be below market rate, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan is quick to point out, though, that she's often the subject of criticism. City Auditor Courtney Ruby was quick to oblige.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have the best city in the Bay Area, but we have the worst city government,\" Ruby said. \"Our leaders, they're certainly entitled to their own opinions, but they're not entitled to their own facts. And they have relied on their own facts and their own numbers that aren't based in reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen below to each candidate's five-minute opening statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/49634724?secret_token=s-ox97h\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public Safety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's crime rate and police department often dominate the city's politics. Just last month Oakland won a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/oakland-gets-2m-state-grant-reduce-recidivism-impr/ngzRH/\" target=\"_blank\">$2 million grant\u003c/a> for having the highest rate in three violent crime categories in the state. The city is struggling to hire more police to make up for a steep decline in ranks after dropping about 200 officers since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do need better policing, not just more police,\" City Councilwoman Libby Schaaf said. \"It’s intervention, prevention and root causes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department also has yet to satisfy a negotiated settlement agreement that has kept it scrutinized under \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/95764/\" target=\"_blank\">federal monitoring\u003c/a> for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a disgrace to me that Oakland is the only city in the United States that's been under federal court oversight for 12 years,\" civil rights attorney Dan Siegel said. \"We have to turn that around.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan said that, despite challenges, public safety has improved on her watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m really proud that in the last 15, almost 16 months now, an Oakland officer hasn’t even pulled a gun to shoot at anybody,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added there hadn't been a murder in Oakland in over a month, something that hasn't happened in 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates responded to a question about military equipment transferred to the police department and \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbanshield.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Shield\u003c/a>, a regional emergency response exercise in Oakland this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State University law professor Joe Tuman said the \"optics\" of the exercises look bad, but he wants to better define \"militarization\" before condemning equipment the department may need. He said police officers could face suspects with automatic rifles and armor piercing bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are they supposed to take a service revolver into that situation?\" Tuman asked. \"Is it taking military weapons if that's what they need to defend themselves in that situation? I think we're oversimplifying if we say you can never have those sorts of things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan said she was against the Urban Shield exercises coming to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Oakland police had used weapons during \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/occupy-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy protests\u003c/a> that were supposedly banned for use in crowd control in the city 10 years ago, such as tear gas canisters fired from grenade launchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under my administration, we would not hand the police the weapons they're not allowed to use and then be shocked when they use what we've handed them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Racial and Economic Inequality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a quarter of Oakland residents identified as Hispanic or Latino in the \u003ca href=\"http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0653000.html\" target=\"_blank\">2010 census\u003c/a>, and 28 percent identified as African-American. According to data released by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/economy/oakland-child-poverty-skyrockets/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census in 2011\u003c/a>, 28 percent of Oakland children live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This city is divided. It is full of unequal opportunities,\" said Bryan Parker, an Oakland port commissioner and private sector executive, \"This condition has led to deep-seated hopelessness in some of our communities. It's poverty, and we shouldn't be surprised that we have higher incidents of crime in these areas. And City Hall is not getting it done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker's platform includes leveraging Oakland's port for job creation and expanding health care and technology sector jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siegel said he'd immediately introduce a measure to raise Oakland's minimum wage to $15 per hour. His second priority, he said, is creating universal preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is the best way to level the playing field between children from low-income families and children from affluent families,\" Siegel said. \"Unless we can increase the graduation rate above 50 percent, which is what the number is for African-American and Latino children in Oakland, we're going to continue to have these problems, no matter how many people we put in jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the entire forum below. The audio has been slightly edited for time. Check back for more information on additional Oakland mayoral candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/166322629\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And they have relied on their own facts and their own numbers that aren't based in reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen below to each candidate's five-minute opening statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/49634724?secret_token=s-ox97h&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/49634724?secret_token=s-ox97h'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public Safety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's crime rate and police department often dominate the city's politics. Just last month Oakland won a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/oakland-gets-2m-state-grant-reduce-recidivism-impr/ngzRH/\" target=\"_blank\">$2 million grant\u003c/a> for having the highest rate in three violent crime categories in the state. The city is struggling to hire more police to make up for a steep decline in ranks after dropping about 200 officers since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do need better policing, not just more police,\" City Councilwoman Libby Schaaf said. \"It’s intervention, prevention and root causes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department also has yet to satisfy a negotiated settlement agreement that has kept it scrutinized under \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/95764/\" target=\"_blank\">federal monitoring\u003c/a> for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a disgrace to me that Oakland is the only city in the United States that's been under federal court oversight for 12 years,\" civil rights attorney Dan Siegel said. \"We have to turn that around.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan said that, despite challenges, public safety has improved on her watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m really proud that in the last 15, almost 16 months now, an Oakland officer hasn’t even pulled a gun to shoot at anybody,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added there hadn't been a murder in Oakland in over a month, something that hasn't happened in 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates responded to a question about military equipment transferred to the police department and \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbanshield.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Shield\u003c/a>, a regional emergency response exercise in Oakland this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State University law professor Joe Tuman said the \"optics\" of the exercises look bad, but he wants to better define \"militarization\" before condemning equipment the department may need. 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I think we're oversimplifying if we say you can never have those sorts of things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan said she was against the Urban Shield exercises coming to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Oakland police had used weapons during \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/occupy-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy protests\u003c/a> that were supposedly banned for use in crowd control in the city 10 years ago, such as tear gas canisters fired from grenade launchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under my administration, we would not hand the police the weapons they're not allowed to use and then be shocked when they use what we've handed them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Racial and Economic Inequality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a quarter of Oakland residents identified as Hispanic or Latino in the \u003ca href=\"http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0653000.html\" target=\"_blank\">2010 census\u003c/a>, and 28 percent identified as African-American. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10672_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-138386 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10672_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Kaplan announces her run for mayor of Oakland from a garbage-strewn sidewalk on International Boulevard. (Andrew Stelzer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Kaplan announces her run for mayor of Oakland from a garbage-strewn sidewalk on International Boulevard. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just five months before the November election, Oakland City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan formally announced her candidacy for mayor this week, citing frustrations with Mayor Jean Quan and her administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oakland isn’t ungovernable, just ungoverned,\" Kaplan said in her first 2014 campaign video. \"We need strong, stable leadership for safe neighborhoods, for local jobs and for a fresh start for our city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her announcement is a reversal of her statement in 2012 that she would not challenge Quan this year, and though it is later in the campaign season than expected, the news is not a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November, Kaplan led a mock race with 26 percent of the vote, according to a survey of about 400 voters commissioned by the Oakland-based Jobs and Housing Coalition. Without Kaplan in the running, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/18/oakland-mayor-jean-quan-on-crime-occupy-an-as-stadium-and-more-crime/\">Quan\u003c/a> was ahead in both the November poll, with 32 percent of the vote, and again in the most recent study released a couple of weeks ago, with 20 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Francisco politics professor Corey Cook said Kaplan's entrance shook up the mayor's race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that she has been ahead in some of these polls when she isn't in the race shows that voters want her to run,\" Cook said. Before Kaplan entered the race, \"There was not a lot of shape to the opponents,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan joins a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/04/oakland-mayor-debate/\">long list of 16 other mayoral hopefuls\u003c/a>, including Port of Oakland Commissioner Bryan Parker, Oakland City Councilwoman Libby Schaaf, and former Oakland school board member and civil rights attorney Dan Siegel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frankly, if anybody out there is a supporter of any of the other candidates, my message to them is not that they’re wrong,” Kaplan told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2014/06/05/kaplan-officially-announced-candidacy-for-oakland-mayor-and-asks-for-second-place-votes\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express\u003c/a>. “I respectfully ask that they vote for me as their second choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This statement sounds similar to Quan's winning 2010 campaign tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Jean went out and canvassed, she said, 'vote for me first, but if not, vote for me second,'\" Sue Piper, Quan’s 2010 campaign manager, told \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandnorth.net/2010/11/12/after-election-ranked-choice-voting-gets-mixed-reviews/comment-page-1/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland North\u003c/a> just after the 2010 election. Piper said Quan relied on ranked-choice voting to beat Don Perata's expensive campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In ranked-choice elections, voters list their first, second and third choices. If no candidate has more than 50 percent of the first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated, and ballots cast for them are transferred to voters' second choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third choices are counted only if a voter's first- and second-choice candidates have been eliminated. The process of elimination continues until one candidate has more than half the vote and is declared the winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Don Perata took the majority of first-choice votes, by about 10 percent, in Oakland's first ranked-choice mayoral election. But Quan won the mayoral seat after receiving more of the second and third place votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had Kaplan not entered the 2014 campaign, the second-choice votes could have fallen anywhere among the 16 other candidates, giving Quan the lead even without a high approval rating, Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kaplan is the most credible threat to Jean Quan being re-elected,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks, Cy Musiker and Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's mayoral race is underway after a crowded debate Thursday night. About 400 people packed Temple Sinai to watch incumbent Mayor Jean Quan and eight challengers discuss an issue much on the mind of many residents: public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan is running for re-election despite an administration marked by high crime rates, multiple staff defections and what is considered to be a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/14/independ-report-finds-oakland-response-to-occupy-flawed/\" target=\"_blank\">botched response to the 2011 Occupy Oakland protests\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_25319976/oakland-another-poll-shows-trouble-mayor-jean-quan\" target=\"_blank\">recent poll\u003c/a> found Quan's approval rating is just 24 percent, with 66 percent disapproving. Despite the mayor's recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/18/oakland-mayor-jean-quan-on-crime-occupy-an-as-stadium-and-more-crime/\" target=\"_blank\">trumpeting of a decrease in crime and her other accomplishments\u003c/a>, her poll numbers haven't budged much since a survey conducted last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUYZZGdqhsM\" target=\"_blank\">Watch last night's debate\u003c/a>\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUYZZGdqhsM]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates running against Quan include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Patrick McCullough\u003c/strong>, hailed as a hero by some after shooting a teen he claimed had been part of a group harassing him at his home after he campaigned against drug dealers in the neighborhood.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bryan Parker\u003c/strong>, a Port of Oakland commissioner and technology executive, who made headlines earlier this year when he led the announced candidates in fundraising at the end of 2013.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Courtney Ruby\u003c/strong> is the Oakland city auditor. Ruby has been the auditor since 2007 and won a second four-year term in 2010. Last year, Ruby issued a highly critical report on council members Larry Reid and Desley Brooks, alleging, among other things, they had interfered with the bidding process for redevelopment plans at the former Oakland Army Base.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Libby Schaaf\u003c/strong> is is an Oakland City Councilwoman running for mayor after representing District 4, which includes much of the Oakland hills, since 2011. An outspoken public safety advocate, Schaaf recently introduced legislation in the City Council to crack down on aggressive driving in order to better protect bicyclists and pedestrians.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Nancy Sidebotham\u003c/strong> was appointed by former Mayor Ron Dellums to the Community Policing Advisory Board between 2009 and 2012.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dan Siegel\u003c/strong>, a civil rights attorney and former legal advisor to Quan, is running on a platform of increasing the minimum wage and improving education and city infrastructure. Siegel quit his job with the administration in 2011 after disagreeing with the mayor's response to Occupy Oakland.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Joe Tuman\u003c/strong>, who came in fourth in the mayor's race in 2010, is a longtime professor at San Francisco State University, where he currently chairs the communications department.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last night, Tuman seemed to capture the mood in the city when he said, \"You’ll know it’s safe when you don’t have to have public forums on public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Libby Schaaf: \"I reject that crime is a tax you have to pay to live in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle reported that \"every candidate had a different plan to make Oakland residents feel safer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Joe Tuman, a political science professor, said the city should have 300 more police officers than the 611 it has now, while Dan Siegel, a civil rights attorney and activist, said the city should have 40 fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Ruby, the city's auditor, said that as mayor she would hire a top-tier police chief to improve morale and strategically fight crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Jason Anderson, a Green Party candidate, said that as mayor he wouldn't be afraid to confront problem police officers. Bryan Parker, a businessman and port commissioner, suggested police need to have less oversight and more discretion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have too many people watching our officers,\" Parker said. \"We have internal affairs, we have cameras, we have watchers watching the watchers.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/1st-Oakland-mayoral-debate-a-crowded-affair-5375583.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from KQED news associate \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/04/oakland-mayoral-challengers-vow-to-reduce-crime-while-criticizing-quan-analysis/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tuman estimated the number of cops needed to keep Oakland safe (is) 900, while Dan Siegel … offered a more modest estimate of 650-700 officers. “It’s not a question of how many, but how smartly we use them,” he said. 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He says the arrangement will help foster better understanding and knowledge of each specific neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others were deeply critical of Quan’s leadership over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Auditor Courtney Ruby said Oakland has a “leadership deficit” and added, “As auditor, I look at the hard numbers, not excuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason “Shake” Anderson, a Green Party candidate and member of the Occupy Oakland movement, called Quan’s administration “dysfunctional” following the the departure of yet another top city official this week. “Right now, we’re failing at government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, three of the first four candidates to open the nearly three-hour forum took direct shots at Quan, who often appeared to be staring blankly with arms crossed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland activist Nancy Sidebotham said Oakland’s political machine has run the mayor’s office for the past three decades. “I’m running for mayor because I’m angry. I want change,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan reacted to the comments by saying she takes every homicide personally. “Crime is trending down. It might not be enough, but it’s a beginning.” Quan later deflected suggestions her administration should hold off hiring a permanent police chief until after the election. She says reforms required in the police department’s negotiated settlement agreement will be fulfilled much sooner with a new chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Libby Schaaf said compliance with the consent decree will only improve the OPD and potentially help reduce crime. Other cities like Los Angeles, said Schaaf, were able to greatly lower crime in the midst of federal oversight. Crime, she noted, is not an “urban tax for living in Oakland.” \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/04/oakland-mayoral-challengers-vow-to-reduce-crime-while-criticizing-quan-analysis/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Reaction from the audience was typically mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For me, it’s all about increasing officers, and increasing transparency in the city, so that way we can see what's going on in the city,\" said Steve Berly. \"It’s less of an opaque box.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earl Hamlin confirmed policing is the biggest issue for most Oaklanders. \"It starts with a new police chief, and everyone wants a good one and a great one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think a lot of the candidates had wonderful ideas,\" said Vanessa Winegan. \"(Like) the police chief being able to do his job without being micro-managed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Doug Broom: \"I was kind of surprised to find that so many of our police team does not live here in the city. 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