Oakland Sports Forum: Rebecca Kaplan Prevails – Video

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Oakland Sports Forum: Rebecca Kaplan Prevails – Video
Oakland Sports Forum: Rebecca Kaplan Prevails
Oakland Councilmember and Mayor’s Race Candidate Rebecca Kaplan did the best job at Oakland’s first sports-oriented political debate.

I set up the Oakland Sports Forum to cause candidates to chalenge each other. Councilmember Kaplan was the most vulnerable because she sits on the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority, and because she said she saved the Oakland A’s from moving. Unbelievably, no candidate took on Rebecca, and only Joe Tuman and Pat McCullough effectively went after Oakland Mayor Jean Quan on Coliseum City, saying it was not more than pretty pictures.

It was Kaplan who got up and consistently and forcefully made the connection between sports and economic development. Really, the Forum was hers to lose, and she did not do that. Bryan Parker, Libby Schaaf, Joe Tuman, Dan Siegel, Nancy Sidebotham and Ken Houston did very well at the Forum, but none of them took on Kaplan.

While the polling system I employed was faulty, I felt that I had to share my view of events. Kaplan prevailed.

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