Oakland has sadly gone the way of places like Detroit when it comes to leadership. I can remember living there right after WWI ended and my father returned from four years in Australia with the US Navy. It was a very nice city with a long line of Republican mayors. Unfortunately, like Detroit it has suffered from RAT and Black RAT Mayors since the term of Republican Mayor John H. Reading ended in 1973. He was followed by Lionel Wilson, a black RAT former superior court judge, then Elihu Harris, a Black RAT, then our ubiquitous Governor Jerry Brown had his turn in between his two 8 year stints as our governor, followed by Black RAT Communist, Ron Dellums, who left his congressional to become mayor, later still Jean Quan a Chinese Commuinist, and Now Libby Schaaf who is a Capo. With this kind of “leadership” is it any wonder what happened?
You must be the most senior members on this board... congratulations for still being active here.... my hat's off to you!