In 18 months since Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao took office, she has faced one crisis after another, leaving residents and officials wondering if they must move on amid a growing list of challenges and questions.
For political strategy and public affairs expert Jim Ross, the crisis facing Thao and the city of Oakland isn't really the investigation that came to the mayor's home last Thursday. It is the compounding of many different problems she and the city have encountered since early 2023.'The mayor took office in the midst of the hacking IT denial for service, facing a hundreds of millions of dollars deficit,' said Ross.
'You know, not a lot of people stood up for her, and I think that she felt like if she wasn't gonna defend herself, nobody else is gonna do it for her.' And while no one knows yet where the investigation is going, Ross says it is all of these events together that are bringing more attention to the FBI probe, even though the public may not be provided details any time soon.'If this was a normal course of events, this would be a one-day story.
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