Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on Why Voters Should Reject the Recall

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the first mayoral recall vote in Oakland in more than a century, voters will decide in the November election whether mayor Sheng Thao should be removed from office. After two years as mayor, Thao is contending with a historic budget deficit, widespread public safety concerns, large homeless encampments and the loss of the city’s last major professional sports team. All this in the shadow of an FBI raid on her home earlier this year. Mayor Thao joins us to talk about her approach to the city’s challenges and why voters should let her finish out her term. Guests: Sheng Thao, mayor of Oakland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.5	Greetings, boomtown.
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0:57.2	Oakland Mayor Shang Tao won a hard-fought election in 2022, narrowly prevailing in the
1:02.2	ranked choice voting system.
1:03.9	She'd come up through the ranks of city government to become the first mayor of a major
1:08.4	city of Hmong descent.
1:10.3	But the first two years of her administration have been difficult.
1:14.0	Crime boomed in Oakland in 2023, just as it began to fall in other cities.
1:19.3	And a recall effort got off the ground nearly immediately.
1:23.3	It'll be on the ballot this November, and this morning, Mayor Tau will join us to talk about her record
1:28.3	and why she thinks she should finish out her term. That's all coming up next after this news.
1:43.5	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:46.7	Oakland has a way of concentrating the hopes and the problems of this whole region.
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