In Wsj Op Ed, Mayor Sheng Thao Proves She Doesn’t Get Why Oakland A’s Are Leaving For Las Vegas – Vlog

In WSJ Op-Ed Mayor Sheng Thao Proves She Doesn’t Get Why Oakland A’s Are Leaving For Las Vegas – Vlog

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In WSJ Op-Ed, Mayor Sheng Thao Proves She Doesn’t Get Why Oakland A’s Are Leaving For Las Vegas

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In WSJ Op-Ed, Mayor Sheng Thao Proves She Doesn’t Get Why Oakland A’s Are Las Vegas Bound

Still new Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao ran on a platform that included “saving the A’s” but she never bothered to ask if the method adopted by the previous Mayor of Oakland was the right one. So, not surprisingly to this 37-year veteran of Oakland Government, Mayor Thao proceeded to roll out what could be called “The Libby Schaaf Playbook.”

What’s “The Libby Schaaf Playbook”? Well, Mayor Thao showed what it was in her Wall Street Journal AKA WSJ Op-Ed Mayor Sheng Thao. It’s 100-percent political, and not at all planning-or-financing oriented. It speaks nothing of the hard work Oakland’s appointed public officials have done, or the Oakland business community, and acts like it’s just Sheng out there, and no one else. In short, it’s all about Sheng Thao getting her face out there for the public to see, and little else.

It’s insulting of Nevada and Las Vegas and of the current owners of the Oakland A’s. Moreover, it just plays to the unknowing masses who only know their Oakland A’s are leaving, but don’t understand and aren’t interested in Government enough to follow the months of information over the last four years chronicled in, among other places, Zennie62.com and Oakland News Now Blog, the flagship platforms of Zennie62Media, Inc.

I’m sorry to be so critical of Oakland elected officials I have called friends, but Oakland’s in terrible shape, and at a historically bad level. Whole parts of Oakland look like war zones. People are afraid to walk about, shop, and park their cars without someone smashing a window or robbing them. Oakland has allowed all of these problems to form before the Pandemic, they got worse with the Pandemic, and Oakland has done nothing with legislation designed to help businesses recover from the Pandemic. That is true for business retention, and so the awful pattern of doing virtually nothing has extended to the A’s. Oakland’s failure to implement the SB 293 Skinner legislation written for Howard Terminal is a casualty of Oakland’s lack of initiative to work for its people.

While Mayor Thao touts having a $375 million infrastructure grant for Howard Terminal, the ground work for that was done by the previous Mayor, Libby Schaaf. And the fact is, the tax increment financing district that was to be formed of Howard Terminal, and could raise $1.6 billion for an $800 million bond issue, was never implemented. After Governor Newsom signed SB 293 Skinner into law October 11th, 2019, the City of Oakland didn’t bother to start any work to form Howard Terminal as an EIFD until after March 27th, 2021, and that was just a meeting with the County of Alameda – no public financing authority or infrastructure financing plan.

Mayor Schaaf, with Sheng Thao as District Four Councilmember, wasted a year-and-a-half of time on politically-motivated parts of the Howard Terminal Predevelopment Phase, like arguing over affordable housing and off-side infrastructure that SB 293 Skinner was set up to pay for on behalf of the Oakland A’s. They had a project manager in Molly Maybrun, but so many of the documents were signed by Assistant City Administrator Betsy Lake that at times it looked like Ms. Lake was the project manager and not her “old friend” Ms. Maybrun. And the Oakland A’s were paying for all of this time the staff was wasting.

So, Sheng Thao’s op-ed says nothing about finishing the job of making the EIFD and fast tracking TIF revenue. It doesn’t promise that Oakland will be more project focused and not political. Sadly, the WSJ just presents the groundhogs day scenario the A’s were tired of. And she begs for the A’s to come back to Oakland.
Moreover, Sheng doesn’t ask for the Oakland business community’s help. She doesn’t ask for my help, even as she asked for and got a meeting with me about TIF and EIFDs last year, then wanted to make it “secret”. Sheng doesn’t want to do what’s best for Oakland or the A’s. Sheng wants to do what’s best for how she looks to Oakland.

And, as more evidence of my claim, look at the City of Oakland website front page as of now, June 11th, 2023, 7 AM PST and 10 AM EST. Howard Terminal and the need to keep the A’s in Oakland, let alone what has been done, is not even mentioned on the City of Oakland website home page!

May God bless Oakland. As soon as possible.

Stay tuned.

What’s “The Libby Schaaf Playbook”? Well, Mayor Thao showed what it was in her Wall Street Journal Op-Ed.

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