Well, less than a week from the inauguration of Sheng Thao as the 51st Mayor of Oakland, we have a brand new scandal on top of the three Oakland Public Ethics Commission open cases (one at the investigation stage involving former Staffer LeAna Powell) and the lawsuit involving Oakland City Clerk allegedly changing Sheng Thao’s time stamp so she would be able to look like she filed her Oakland Mayoral Election Paperwork on time. Not to mention the new rumor that one of Sheng Thao’s aides was accused of trying to drug staffers with valium during the campaign.
This brand new one involves Renia Webb, the African American Chief of Staff, and once Oakland District Four City Council candidate. I will let the email that Renia Webb wrote and that was passed to me do the talking:
Greetings All,
Hope this email finds you well.
Not sure what kind of games are being played – the fake letter you attached supposedly drafted on the 30th 1 Referencing the 27th.
I email Mayor a few days prior after she wanted me attend an event with her Partner Andre Jones after knowing he has physically & verbally cursed me on more than one occasion.
The afternoon of her swearing in Andre cursed her out in front of our City Clerks office for at least 15mins.
The environment I was working in became abusive, radical, threatening among other things. I will be filing an official complaint as well as suing for damages, pain & suffering etc etc.
I resigned from Mayor Shengs office due to unfair practices in her office. I sent my resignation on the 31st of December at 2:50pm via email.
Please find below:
Greetings Mayor Sheng,
I hope this email finds you & yours well.
For various reasons, I will be resigning effective immediately 1231, 2022 at 2:50pm.
I will submit information to collect my last paycheck along with any unused vacation time and will request that it be mailed to a post office box when that number is determined.
Thank you very much for the opportunity, and all we’ve learned from each other.
Wishing you the best in 2023!
I will continue to serve Oakland as I have my entire life, and the generations before me.Blessings, Peace, Joy & Faith!
Oh, Renia Webb is mentioned in the livestream interview I conducted with LeAna Powell.
This one:
Stay tuned, folks. With Oakland Mayor-Elect Sheng Thao, we’re entering what I will call “The Borgias Era” in Oakland. And if you don’t know what that means, let me just explain that the Borgias were an Italian family in the fifteenth century, known for producing two Popes, Alfons de Borja and Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia (or Pope Callixtus III and Pope Alexander VI, respectively). They were famous for using sex, lies, and even murder to get to the top rung of society.
Tell me Sheng Thao’s not on that path, already. I’m happy to be wrong because Oakland deserves better leadership. She’s not even in the saddle and we’ve got a mess.
Zennie Abraham is Zennie62Media, Inc. CEO and Zenophon Abraham Zennie62 YouTube Channel vlogger, and pioneer African-American creator of Oakland News Now Blog and Zennie62Media’s 100-blog network. He’s covered the NFL, San Diego Comic Con, The Night of 100 Stars Oscars Party, The NFL Draft, and CES Las Vegas annually , and for more than 10 years. Zennie created Oakland’s first true blog, Oakland Focus, and Oakland’s first YouTube Partner Channel Zennie62, and now Oakland’s only news blog aggregator, OaklandNewsOnline.com . Zennie also holds the distinction of forming Oakland’s only bid to host the NFL’s Super Bowl Game, in 2000 for the 2005 game that Jacksonville won the right to host. He’s also the founder of Sports Business Simulations and the creator of The Oakland Baseball Simworld and XFL Simworld. Zennie was born in Chicago on August 4th, 1962. A proud graduate of Bret Harte Jr. High, and Skyline High School, He’s lived in Oakland since April 8th of 1974. He has an undergraduate degree from Texas-Arlington and a Masters Degree from U.C. Berkeley, both in City Planning with a focus on urban economics and public finance. Zennie is an expert in system dynamics modeling.