That 37-year-old, Sheng Thao, has since been recalled after the FBI indicted her on corruption charges related to the city’s waste management contract. However, that didn’t stop her financial overlords from recruiting Lee to run to replace her this spring.
Lee, who retired from Congress after representing Oakland for over 25 years, never showed any interest in running for mayor before this year. However, after her failed Senate campaign in 2024, she was just the machine politician government unions knew they could depend on after Thao was recalled.
Thao’s 2022 opponent, Loren Taylor, who received a thousand more votes than Thao in the first round before the city’s ranked choice voting scheme threw the election to Thao in the final round, has always been viewed
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