From the various comments I get concerning this blog, I have to conclude that we all have different opinions about what to do to fix Oakland. People mostly agree with me, but now and then there are criticisms. That’s fine. Never bothers me, and I rather enjoy reading them. But I do want to take the opportunity to explain something about my blogging.
Let’s end fencing stolen goods at Lake Merritt!
Pamela Price 2028?!?!?!
It’s not often that a political revolutionary publishes a description of the mayhem she plans to commit on gaining power. Hitler famously did, with Mein Kampf. Trump similarly vetted his objectives in his Project 2025 blueprint for fascism. And now, Pamela Price has gone and told us how she intends to overthrow the system in the name of wokeness, the fascism of the left. We wondered the other day where she is and what she’s up to. Well, now we know.
We had a good year. Lots more to do, though
Just a short post today during a period in which there’s not really a lot happening in Oakland. Thought it would be a good moment to reflect on our achievements during the past year.
Obviously the big news was the successful recalls of Thao and Price. Those victories will resound throughout 2025 and beyond. This was a tremendous blow to wokeism in Oakland. True, we didn’t fare well in other election results, but we are at least rid of the malign influence on Nikki Bas on the City Council. She will be able to inflict far less damage on us from the Board of Supervisors, where there already are signs of friction between her and her more moderate colleagues.
The blow we inflicted on wokeism will have repercussions into the near year. We have hobbled wokeism but we haven’t crushed it. The Fife-Brooks-Bas BLM cult, weakened and embarrassed, is even now meeting secretly to fortify themselves in 2025. As for our new Congressperson, Tateefah Simon, she looks to me like just another Tweedledum-Tweedledee iteration of the same cutout we’ve had in the 12th District seat since at least Ron Dellums, including, obviously, Barbara Lee: water carriers for the unions and radical Black interests. Which brings us to B. Lee as mayor. She’ll probably get the post; her plantation owners at SEIU have already made that determination. It will suck, it will be a complete drag and a colossal waste of time, but Lee’s administration will be a failure and I think we’ll know it sooner rather than later.
All of which is to say that, while we’ve accomplished plenty over the last year, the struggle continues! I’ll do my best to inspire, warn and educate. Back on Monday.
Steve Heimoff