Oakland Recalled Its Mayor. Now What?

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

More than 60% of Oakland voters chose to recall mayor Sheng Thao last week, making her the first mayor to be recalled in the city’s history. Soon after the election is certified in December, Oakland will have four months to throw a special election for a new mayor. We’ll talk about what’s next for the city in the meantime. And we’ll check in with Oaklanders invested in the people, culture and functioning of the city about their hopes for the future of Oakland and what they’ll most be looking for from a new mayor. We want to hear from our Oakland listeners. Now that the old order has been tossed out, what do you want from a new one? Guests: Alex Hall, enterprise and accountability reporter, KQED Liam O'Donoghue, host and producer, East Bay Yesterday Nigel Jones, restaurateur, Calabash - an Afro-Caribbean and Jamaican restaurant, market and bar. Owned Kingston 11, which has now closed. Noni Session, executive director and co-founder, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Dorothy Lazard, author, What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World - Former Head Librarian of the Oakland History Center Allison Brooks, executive director, Bay Area Regional Collaborative Janet Heller, executive director, Chapter 510 Angela Glover Blackwell, founder in residence, PolicyLink, an Oakland- based non-profit dedicated to advancing economic and social equity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.9	Oakland mayor Shang Tao has been recalled as the city responded to a range of frustrations
1:08.4	to end her term just two years in.
1:11.6	So now what? In the next five months, Oakland will have a new mayor and perhaps a different direction in City Hall.
1:18.6	Today then, we're going to bring on a bunch of different Oakland voices, both community leaders and residents.
1:24.6	What specific things do you want to change in Oakland?
1:28.3	What's a vision you could get behind?
1:30.3	That's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. We're talking about where Oakland goes from here.
1:57.7	Now that Mayor Shantau has been recalled, we're going to bring on a bunch of different
2:02.1	voices this morning. It can sound a little different. And of course, we're going to bring in yours as well.
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