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Vote NO on Measure EE. Barbara Lee’s power grab gives the mayor veto power and a path to massive politician pay raises. 👇

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Imagine if Sheng Thao had veto power
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Could the Sheng Thao corruption trial doom Oakland's Measure EE? 📰 The man behind Oakland’s strong mayor plan says Sheng Thao trial changed his mind. oaklandreport.news/x/h-could…
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Oakland's own auditor says Measure EE could add $36K to $108K per councilmember in pay and benefits, with no cap. They already get about $148.5K with benefits while the city runs a structural deficit. Bold time to ask for a raise.
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It’s a hard “NO” on Measure EE Responsible city leaders don’t try to give themselves hundred thousand dollar raises when the city is reporting a deficit and can’t provide BASIC service services to its taxpayers.
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If Measure EE was bundled with a change to our current Ranked Choice Voting, I would have reconsidered my no vote. But the bottleneck comes down to having a competent and efficient city administrator, which the mayor already has the power to appoint.
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California's worst-run city could give council members $108K raises trib.al/HntKUoG
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This morning outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building I asked Sheng Thao three questions. 1.) Who is paying for her lawyer? 2.) Does she endorse Barbara Lee for re-election? 3.) Does she endorse Measure EE, the strong-mayor charter amendment? She did not respond. Measure EE would give the mayor veto power, direct control over most department heads, and more executive authority than Oakland has today. Barbara Lee broke a tie to put it on the November ballot. It is too soon to hand the mayor’s office even more power while the last mayor is on trial for allegedly selling it. The trial resumes today. Stay tuned. – at Oakland, CA
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NO MORE CORRUPTION !!! Vote NO on Measure EE @OakPowerGrab
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Vote NO on measure EE.
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Oaklandside just tried to split Barbara Lee’s record into highs and lows. There are no highs. Deficits projected through 2030. Voters rejected her parcel tax. $24 million in federal money lost or delayed. Only 601 of 678 police jobs filled. 61 officers on leave. A police academy that started with 22 and graduated 14. About six officers walking out every month. She still has not hit the 700-officer mandate voters already paid for. Encampments went up while she claimed homelessness was down. Downtown office vacancy near 38%. Buildings in foreclosure. The city auditor called the illegal dumping strategy a failure. Her city administrator was lost to a texting scandal. The strong mayor rewrite opponents called a power grab. What the Oaklandside called highs were checks. Crankstart. Kaiser. Kapor. Private money to paper over a city that cannot fund itself, then a nonprofit newsroom treats the checks like a record. That is Barbara Lee’s Oakland. A woman attacked at 8 a.m. while opening Javi’s Cooking. A Sunday shelter-in-place after a man shot at police and set a house on fire. A 23-year soul food landmark closed, and she posted that she stopped by to celebrate. The Raiders, the Warriors, and the A’s gone, and she hyped a frisbee title. A $1 million plan to pay unhoused people to pick up trash they create. Leave Barbara Lee off your ballot for Mayor by November 3. – at Oakland, CA
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Oaklanders are being asked to dramatically change how their municipal government works by approving a charter amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot that would increase the mayor’s responsibilities for running the city. #Election2026 #Oakland localnewsmatters.org/2026/09…
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Oakland lost the Raiders. Lost the Warriors. Lost the A’s. Three real teams. Gone. So Barbara Lee is on Instagram celebrating the Oakland Spiders, an ultimate frisbee team. “8 legs, 1 heart. Let’s Go Oakland.” That is the mayor of a city that lost the Raiders, the Warriors, and the A’s. Out here posting like a frisbee title brings the Town back. Oakland used to have championship parades people actually remembered. Now City Hall is hyping a disc because that is all that is left. This is who has ruined Oakland. Leave Barbara Lee off your ballot for Mayor! – at Oakland, CA
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Oakland Airport keeps losing real airlines. Spirit left. Sun Country pulled out. Southwest has been cutting flights. Passenger numbers keep falling. So Barbara Lee celebrates Frontier! ✈️ The notorious airline that charges for everything, packs people in like sardines, and offers the absolute bare minimum it can legally get away with. It just returned with a few flights to Vegas after better options disappeared. Under the failed leadership of Barbara Lee and her political allies, Oakland went from a real alternative airport to a place that struggles to keep serious carriers while celebrating the return of one of the worst airlines in the industry known for delays and nickel-and-diming passengers. Leave Barbara Lee off your ballot for Oakland Mayor in the upcoming election on November 3. – at Oakland, CA
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5 people stabbed, 2 murdered, bullets flying across playgrounds, someone’s home broken into and set on fire. That’s just this week in Oakland. Meanwhile Mayor Barbara Lee is out here issuing a proclamation for National Mai Tai Day. LEAVE HER OFF YOUR BALLOT NOVEMBER 2026. – at Oakland, CA
UPDATE: The man who was threatening to kill people at a park in Oakland broke into someone’s home and lit it on fire. We are not safe in Barbara Lee’s Oakland. Leave her off your ballot for Mayor in November 2026.
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UPDATE: The man who was threatening to kill people at a park in Oakland broke into someone’s home and lit it on fire. We are not safe in Barbara Lee’s Oakland. Leave her off your ballot for Mayor in November 2026. – at Oakland, CA
Beautiful Sunday in Oakland. Residents near Manzanita Park were told to shelter in place because a man with a gun was running through backyards. He allegedly threatened to kill a woman in the park. When police showed up, he shot at them. Officers fired back. The woman was rescued. The suspect fled armed. This is what “progress” looks like under Barbara Lee. People locked inside their homes on a Sunday afternoon because the streets still belong to whoever is willing to pull a trigger. Leave Barbara Lee off your ballot for Mayor of Oakland 2026.
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5 people stabbed in 30 minutes in Oakland. One man dead. Four more bleeding in the streets. A park. A BART station. Neighborhoods with children. The suspect was already out on parole for stabbing people! Gonzalo Lopez, 58, was killed first in Cesar Chavez Park. He was a chef who brought food to people there. He was stabbed near a play structure and died on the ground. Then the attacker kept moving through Oakland, stabbing more and more people. That killing is part of Oakland’s 35 homicides so far this year. Barbara Lee keeps telling the city it is getting safer. She keeps posing for cameras and talking about progress. Meanwhile a REPEAT STABBER was free, walking the same streets she is supposed to protect. This is not leadership. This is a failure with a body count. Leave Barbara Lee off your ballot for Mayor of Oakland 2026. – at Oakland, CA
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