I think about healing a lot. I suppose all cancer patients do. My next door neighbor, who is a devout Roman Catholic, always tells me to say affirmations, visualize healing, and order the cancer to leave my body. I obey; it can’t hurt.

I was elected to restore normalcy to our beloved city. Accordingly, I am herewith instructing all city departments to cease to have any communications whatsoever with Mr. Robert Warshaw, the federal monitor who has overseen the Oakland Police Department for longer than many Oakland residents have been alive.

Name me one thing Barbara Lee has done for Oakland in her 27 years of serving in the House of Representatives.

I wrote yesterday about how the Riders were never convicted of anything, and how the jurors who acquitted them were scathing in their denunciation of the prosecution. This whole case was a farce and a sham, and brought only because of anti-police bias.

Opponents of the Oakland Police Department routinely cite the so-called “Riders” case as justification for (a) keeping OPD under federal monitorship and (b) their accusations that the department is a cesspool of racism and police misconduct.