Former representative Barbara Lee, Democrat of California, defeated the former member of the City of Oakland, Loren Taylor, in Oakland’s special elections for the mayor, after months of uncertainty for the city in difficulties.
While Taylor made raids as a relative strange politician with Financial campaign reports By revealing that he exceeded the race in the California politician, Lee was finally triumphant after the election holders classified on Friday.
The career for the mayor had been too close to call Tuesday night after the special elections of April 15 of Oakland, since Taylor maintained a slight read about Lee, with approximately one thousand more votes in his favor. Oakland follows a classified election voting system, where candidates with fewer votes are eliminated as voter support options receive an impulse in the account.
The city administered by Liberal has had four different mayors in a period of four months after Mayor Sheng Thao was withdrawn from the market this November and Subsequently accused In eight bribery charges. Oakland has been without a clear leader this year as the city continues to deal with in progress.
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Former representative Barbara Lee wins the special election of mayor of Oakland. (Getty images)
Taylor’s campaign to finish Thao’s term was aimed at shaking the political “status quo” and restoring the faith of the Oaklanders in their politicians after months of uncertainty. The Taylor Policy Platform highlighted the public security initiatives, the stabilization of the budget to avoid bankruptcy, anti -corruption and greater efficiency in the City Council, addressing the lack of housing and boosting the local economy.
The enormous deficit of $ 130 million in the city of California Threeatens Dangerous cuts to its fire extinction capacity
The mayor’s candidate Loren Taylor, on the right, arrives with his wife Erica, on the left, before launching his vote for Oakland’s special elections in Eastmont Mall in Oakland on April 15, 2025. (San Francisco Chronicle through Getty Images)
There were 5,490 homeless people in Oakland in 2024, an increase of 9% since 2022, according to Alameda County in January 2024 Point report in time (Pit).
While the The Oakland Police Department reported A decrease in violent crime in 2024, 2025 began a Arises from crime, Including five homicides recorded over a period of 48 hours. January 3, San Francisco Chronicle reported The third homicide of the year of Oakland and the seventh place since December 30, 2024.
The amazing budget deficit of $ 129.8 million for fiscal year 2024-25 forced some Oakland fire houses to close its doors earlier this year, but the City Council could approve a resolution to inject firefire.
The former member of the City Council of Oakland, Loren Taylor, on the left, and former representative Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Faced April 15 for Oakland’s special elections. (Getty images)
“The Oaklanders are frustrated,” Taylor told Fox News Digital in an interview before the special elections. “We are upset because we do not have a leg obtaining what we deserve, what we must get from our local government. The status quo continues to fail, we see that crime rates come out of control, we see that the homeless lights are reduced in calls from the lights of the fiscal budget in our history, a series of failures that show that what we have not worked is not working.”
Lee promoted a long list of political backups in his campaign and had the name that gave him a victory. He lost the Democratic primaries for last year’s use against his former colleague in the Chamber, Senator Adam Schiff, Calif Democrat.
Former pulmonary time representative. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Left, spoke a demonstration in front of the United States Supreme Court on December 1, 2021 in Washington. (Somodevilla/Getty images)
“Barbara Lee meets the voters every day in their living rooms, at its doors and in community events. Hey their priorities aloud and clear: it is running to be a mayor who can make Oakland safer, address the focal and rooted corruption, and the roots by which -dhates, the day, the day of home, the good opportunity and the good opportunity and the must The campaign campaign campaign campaign.
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Lee’s spokesman reiterated Lee’s support, including “seven former mayors and administrators of the city, virtual each member of the City Council, as well as the city’s business chamber.” =
Lee promised to bring a “new perspective” to the Oakland City Council, and accused Taylor to help “make the bad decisions that shape the city.”
