Breitbart: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) has won the special election for Oakland mayor in a close contest over “moderate” Loren Taylor, giving “progressives” hope and defying efforts by Democrats to shift their party to the center.
Lee, 78, defeated Taylor, 47, thanks to late-arriving postal ballots, after Taylor led on Election Night. She will take the helm of a city suffering from poor left-wing governance in the wake of a corruption scandal involving former mayor Sheng Thao, also a “progressive.”
Oakland had recently begun to emerge from the shadows of San Francisco — its wealthier, glitzier neighbor across the Bay — when the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement took it right back to the bad old days of political radicalism and urban decay. more
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It has been a long time since we have had an IOTWR contest.
Just sayin’
“Lee, 78, defeated Taylor, 47, thanks to late-arriving postal ballots, after Taylor led on Election Night.”
Gotta love California.
An anagram of Barbara Lee is AREA RABBLE
Wanting to be Mayor of effing Oakland CA has got to be one of the oddest perversions I’ve ever run across.
“What we’ve been doing isn’t working. So let’s do more of it.”
— Insane people and democrats
@TheMule — You’re not only repeating yourself, you’re also being redundant! 🤣🤣🤣
I’m starting to doubt what I was taught about a particular President from the State of Illinois.
So, Oakland will remain a dumpster fire city.
Municipal election results should never be used to determine party strategy above that level. Hardly anyone votes in municipal elections. Those who do are usually family, friends and neighbors of the candidates, cronies and a few rabid radicals, so those votes are not a representative sample of registered or likely voters in presidential, or even mid-term elections.
That said, I wouldn’t be disappointed if the California Democrat Party reversed their shift to the center and doubled down on extreme leftist crazy.
So…no chance the A’s and Raiders will be moving back anytime soon?
So the entire bay area is now officially a lost cause.
It’s hopeless. It really is. Until we take back our schools from the communists, abandon all hope.
In other news, rats refused to clean up the dump, insisting they found it that way.