Barbara Lee is clueless when it comes to Oakland’s reality. When she expresses surprise that Oaklanders worry about crime (because Oakland, in Lee’s hallucination, doesn’t have a crime problem), we’re supposed to admire her positive thinking.

From his resume, Ismail Ramsey seems like a good guy. He’s widely respected among his lawyer colleagues. He climbed the career ladder until becoming the District Attorney of Contra Costa County and, then, a U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.

There are two kinds of people when it comes to homelessness: those are urge compassion for the unhoused, and those who demand crackdowns on encampments.

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.