Ask Your Mayor: Oakland’s Barbara Lee

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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After decades spent representing the East Bay in Congress, Barbara Lee was inaugurated as Oakland’s new mayor three months ago. She’s now at the helm of a city with a lot of local pride and boasting rights, but also with brutal financial challenges, a politics battered by scandal and recall, and a citizenry eager for progress on crime, homelessness and other urban woes. Barbara Lee joins us to talk about what she’s been learning in her first months in office and how it’s shaping her plans for the city. And we hear from you: What do you want to ask your new mayor, and what do you want her to know about your Oakland? Guests: Barbara Lee, mayor of Oakland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.5	After decades of representing the East Bay in Congress, Barbara Lee ran for and won the
0:52.7	mayor's seat in Oakland. It's now been a bit more than
0:56.3	100 days since she was inaugurated and she's at the helm of a city with a lot of local pride,
1:02.2	but also with brutal financial challenges, a politics battered by scandal and recall, and residents
1:09.1	eager for progress on crime, illegal dumping, and homelessness.
1:13.0	Barbara Lee joins us to talk about what she's learned in her first months in office and how
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