XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.republicans, sac.politics   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: left.wing@gmail.com   
      
   On 23 Jun 2024, J Carlson  posted some   
   news:v59qti$f2ru$10@dont-email.me:   
      
   > Trump has the vocabulary   
      
   and ownership of Democrat retards.   
      
   OAKLAND, Calif. -- Organizers of the effort to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng   
   Thao say they have enough valid signatures to place her ouster on a ballot   
   and are calling on her to resign.   
      
   Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao leaders said they received a notice   
   from the city Tuesday that a sampling of the 40,595 signatures they turned   
   in shows enough are valid to place the recall on a ballot.   
      
   RELATED: Recall Oakland mayor organizers collect enough signatures to move   
   forward   
      
   At a news conference Wednesday morning on the steps of Oakland City Hall,   
   recall supporters reiterated their reasons for wanting her removed from   
   office and said Thao should resign since the number of signatures on the   
   petition exceeds the number of votes she received -- 39,909 -- in the   
   first round of the ranked-choice election that she won in November 2022.   
      
   Thao won with 50.3 percent of the vote after nine rounds of counting,   
   outlasting her nearest opponent, Loren Taylor, who ended up with 49.7   
   percent.   
      
   "My message to the mayor is this, the people have spoken, more people   
   signed these petitions than voted for you as the first choice," OUST   
   president Brenda Harbin-Forte said. "Do the right thing by Oaklanders,   
   please, Mayor Sheng Thao, resign now."   
      
   RELATED: Supporters of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao gather to protest recall   
   effort against her   
      
   Supporters say the recall is justified for a litany of reasons, including   
   the city's financial struggles, the way Thao fired former police chief   
   LeRonne Armstrong, the Oakland A's departure to Sacramento, and her   
   administration's mishandling of a state crime grant application that cost   
   the city $15 million in lost funding.   
      
   They also say Thao is trying to close a $177 million budget gap this year   
   by, in part, using the proceeds from the sale of the city's 50 percent   
   stake in the Oakland Coliseum and diverting funds from past ballot   
   initiatives that are supposed to be earmarked for specific purposes --   
   neither of which addresses the city's structural financial problems.   
      
   "She is not balancing the budget, she is stealing from the public," said   
   Chris Moore, who is also a leader in the effort to recall Alameda County   
   District Attorney Pamela Price.   
      
   RELATED: Oakland community leaders frustrated after city misses out on   
   millions to fight retail crime   
      
   OUST members also cite crime as a motivation for removing Thao, although   
   Oakland Police Department year-to-date data shows crime is down 34 percent   
   compared to last year.   
      
   A spokesperson for Thao didn't immediately respond to a request for   
   comment.   
      
   OUST says the Oakland City Council is now required to set an election   
   date, a discussion of which the group said is scheduled for a July 2   
   meeting.   
      
   "That should be just a matter of an administrative decision and action to   
   be made, and we expect the City Council to respect the will of the more   
   than 40,000 people who signed those petitions, so our next step is to get   
   in mode for the election," Harbin-Forte said.   
      
   https://abc7news.com/post/recall-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-organizers-   
   collect-signatures-move-forward/14971665/   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)