Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) won the special elections for the mayor of Oakland in a close contest about the “Mode” Loren Taylor, giving hope of “progressive” and the challenging efforts of the Democrats to move their party to the center.
Lee, 78, defeated Taylor, 47, thanks to the postal tickets in the afternoon, after Taylor led the night of the elections. It will take the helmet of a city that suffers from poor leftist government following a corruption scandal that involves former mayor Sheng Thao, also a “progressive.”
Recently, Oakland began to leave the shadows of San Francisco, its richest and most dazzling neighbor of the Bay, when the Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement immediately withdrew it, the old days of the politician and urban.
Lee, a standard bearer of the left after casting the lonely vote in the war in Afghanistan in 2001, representatives of that radicalism of the old school, of the 1960s. She ran unsuccessfully against Adam Schiff for the Senate, but found traction in Oakland, where she was seen, the New York Times Observed: “As a voice of trust and experienced that could stabilize Oakland and help guide him from the crisis.”
He was running against Taylor, who was backed by rich interests that are trying to save the city of Ittelft. Polrico Note: “An ascending movement of well -financed moderate groups is determined to exert its influence on the left -wing strengths to the left to some of the world’s largest technological partners already their employees who attract hensos among hensos.”
His next opportunity will come soon: Lee will face re -election in 2026, since the original four -year term of Thao expires.
Until then, the statements that the Democrats in the San Francisco Bay area are leading their back to the center would seem to be premature. In addition to remembering radical prosecutors and members of the School Board, they have not yet achieved success. The mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, defeated the progressive head of London last year, but still faces a deficit of $ 1 billion and has not yet shown significant achievements in his mandate so far.
Joel B. Pollak is a senior editor in general in Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday In Sirius XM Patriot on Sundays at night from 7 pm to 10 pm et (4 pm at 7 pm pt). Hey is the author of The agenda: What Trump should do in its first 100 daysAvailable for pre-pedd at Amazon. He is also the author of Trump’s virtues: the lessons and legacy of the presidency of Donald TrumpNow available in audible. He is a winner of the student community of journalism Robert Novak 2018. Follow it on Twitter in @joelpollak.