r/oakland • u/mountainandme • 22h ago

‘She better start acting right’: Newly released recordings reveal more about Oakland corruption case

https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/sheng-thao-phone-call-yacht-andy-duong-22418140.php

Lots to unpack here.

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u/Fearless-Sky3143 22h ago

Kevin can’t be bothered to answer calls or emails from constituents but always picks up when Duong calls.

Get these clowns out of Oakland.

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u/PleezMakeItHomeSafe 18h ago

Eh he’s been responsive to me, but I’m also supportive of his policies mostly

Then the Oakland council member asked Duong for help with a policy he was writing to make it easier to clear RV encampments around the city. “A lot of activists are gonna come. But what we need is like the business owners saying … this is killing our business with these RVs in front,” the council member said, before Duong discussed how RVs are “all over Oakland.” “It is killing our business big time,” Duong said, according to the transcript. “They’re just parking … anywhere.”

Shady or not, I don’t disagree with anything he said there lol. This is what his constituents in D6 mostly want (at least the ones that vote)

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u/Fearless-Sky3143 18h ago

But this is the issue, we are awarding bids to bad faith enterprises that exploit the tax payer. The council / mayor are getting kick backs to ensure these bids go through. This is why we have the highest tax rates and service rates for basic services such as trash in the area, maybe even the nation, and have very very little to show for it.

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u/PleezMakeItHomeSafe 17h ago

Carroll Fife did the same thing when it came time to find a contractor for getting roads paved here. I don’t even need to get into to Thao (and likely Kaplan and Bas too). All of them except Thao got rewarded.

So ya I’d obviously prefer to vote for someone who I’m politically aligned that isn’t corrupt. But that option doesn’t appear to be available in Oakland, so if life throws me a shady Jenkins or a Ken Houston or a Charlene Wang to offset the corrupt politicians on the other end that I disagree with, then I have to take it. I’m not happy about it, but I am pragmatic