Jean Quan

Oakland Mayor Quan’s 2011 Pro-Chinese Speech Sounds Racist – Imagine If Someone White Said The Words

Oakland Mayor Quan’s 2011 Pro-Chinese Speech Sounds Racist – Imagine If Someone White Said The Words From YouTube Channel: October 15, 2011 at 09:51PM ONN – Oakland Mayor Quan’s 2011 Pro-Chinese Speech Sounds Racist – Imagine If Someone White Said The Words Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this video-blog post demonstrates the full and […]

Oakland Has Long Had Policies To Give Business Contracts To African Americans; Forgot Black Business Development

Today, in 2021, There’s a well-intentioned, and brand new effort in Oakland to steer City of Oakland spending toward black business. Wow. Makes you think that was never done before, right? Well, in my history in Oakland, which goes back to April 8th of 1974, it has been done. The real problem is one that […]

Dave Stewart: Oakland Athletics Star Submits Letter Of Intent To Buy Coliseum Land For $115 Million

The baseball great and his development partner wants to team with a tribal lands developer for the light-on-specifics proposal focusing tribal casino and hotel development on the Coliseum land. Livestream above at 4:20 PM EST December 26th 2020. A source who wished to remain anonymous sent to this vlogger a seven-page copy of a document […]

Don Perata Interview – 2010 Oakland Mayor’s Race Interview With The Man Who Almost Won

Don Perata Interview – 2010 Oakland Mayor’s Race Interview With The Man Who Almost Won But for rank-choice voting, Don Perata, and not Jean Quan, would have been our Mayor of Oakland. Don, best known as President pro tempore of the California State Senate, and later President of Perata Engineering (a lobbying company), was the […]

2020 Election: Re-Elect Oakland City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney For District Three

Oakland City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney has served the residents of perhaps the most complicated Oakland City Council District in our city very well. Understand that while District Three is commonly thought of as being only West Oakland, in reality it’s also Downtown Oakland, Uptown Oakland, and Adams Point / Lake Merritt, where I live. […]

Marcie Hodge Oakland Mayoral Race Interview 2010 – Running For City Council In 2020

Marcie Hodge Oakland Mayoral Race Interview 2010 – Running For City Council In 2020 ONN – Marcie Hodge Oakland Mayoral Race Interview 2010 – Running For City Council In 2020 This is the Zennie62 on YouTube interview with then Oakland Mayoral Race candidate Marcie Hodge, in 2010, at Lake Merritt Cafe in Adams Point. One […]

Oakland, California Has Not Hired A Black Chief Of Police Since 2011. Why?

Oakland, California Has Not Hired A Black Chief Of Police Since 2011. Why? ONN – Oakland, California Has Not Hired A Black Chief Of Police Since 2011, Why? This week, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf hired Susan Manheimer, the newly retired San Mateo Chief of Police, to become the Interim Chief of Police in Oakland. While […]

Lorie Carter Owens, Oaklanders, Must Understand Oakland Police Chief History And Blacks

Lorie Carter Owens, Oaklanders, Must Understand Oakland Police Chief History And Blacks ONN – Lorie Carter Owens, Oaklanders, Must Understand Oakland Police Chief History And Blacks Oaklander Lorie Carter Owens took time to engage me in the Facebook Group NAACP Oakland, and because I made the video blog called “Susan Manheimer: Oakland Mayor Schaaf’s Allergy […]

Oakland A’s Ballpark At Howard Terminal To Cost $850 Million, Use “Ballpark Village” Financing Plan

Oakland A’s Ballpark At Howard Terminal To Cost $850 Million, Have “Ballpark Village” Financing Plan

Rebecca Kaplan To Run For Mayor of Oakland With Cat Brooks In Ranked Choice Voting Ploy

Rebecca Kaplan’s doing what Oakland Mayoral Election Candidate Nancy Sidebotham said the Oakland At-Large Councilmember was going to do earlier this week: announcing she’s running for Mayor Of Oakland. She’s even got a logo saying so (look below). Plus, she’s teaming with Oakland Activist Cat Brooks. In an email announcing her decision and sent to […]

Rebecca Kaplan To Run For Mayor Of Oakland Says Challenger Nancy Sidebotham

Oakland At-Large Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan is expected to announce she is running for Mayor of Oakland this week, if not within the next two weeks, according to three conversations this author had with sources: two with the Oakland tax consultant and candidate for mayor herself Nancy Sidebotham, and another with a well-known former Oakland elected […]

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