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3. "Former Oakland mayor" really does him a disservice. But he did Oakland a disservice

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2018, 12:07 PM

Jul 2018

His long spell in Congress was historic, but he should never have run for mayor, which he did several years after his retirement. He was pushed into it by local power brokers and possibly by family members, and was a disaster -- almost an absentee mayor, as this article says.

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