A progressive mayor who took office as the city struggled to recover from the pandemic, Thao may now be forced back into campaign mode.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao attends the Oakland Ballers inaugural home game against the Yolo High Wheelers at Raimnodi Park in Oakland, Calif., on June 4, 2024. OAKLAND — Efforts to remove Mayor Sheng Thao from office are likely headed to the November election after city officials confirmed Tuesday that a recall campaign against the mayor gathered enough valid petition signatures.
After randomly sampling a portion of the petitions, Alameda County’s elections office estimated last week that the whole batch would exceed 110% of the necessary threshold. That’s enough to trigger an election outright without a full manual count of signatures. Thao’s opponents have pilloried her and other local progressives for the perception that she is soft on crime and bad at managing public money.
Thao has pointed to her revival of the Ceasefire strategy, an anti-violence program in Oakland that slowed during the pandemic, as the cause behind the recent decline in crime.
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