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Editorial: Recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao

Either Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is deceiving the public about the Coliseum deal, or she is completely fiscally incompetent. It looks like an elaborate ruse to avoid the deal collapsing before the election. Our Mayor faces a huge recall fight on Nov 5. She is fighting to survive. The city was staring down a $177M budget deficit, but she refused to make budget cuts due to our public safety crisis. For a while, I admired her grit. Her grand plan to close the $177M deficit: An agreement to sell the Oakland Coliseum. The city would receive $15M by Sept 1 and another $15M by Nov 1, and another $33 million by January 15, 2025. That $63M would save our city from severe budget cuts and also help Sheng Thao avoid a recall. If any of those payments fell through, the budget clearly states that there would be major consequences to our city’s operations. Unfortunately, all of the payments have fallen through! But the Mayor and her staff are acting like the deal is going swimmingly. In reality, it is a huge scandal, but nobody is reporting on it that way. There are even newspaper headlines making it sound like this was a win for the Mayor! Let’s be clear: Mayor Sheng Thao has missed all of the aforementioned deadlines. Reports say we have received $5M, not $15M as promised by this date. The Mayor and her city council teammates have ignored questions from their council colleagues asking for proof of funds and documentation of the negotiations. Everything has been closed-door and hush hush. Recently, things got interesting. The Mayor’s office shared an updated payment schedule with a deadline to receive a $10M deposit by Oct 7 (far less than the initial $30M by Nov 1). This came with an increased total purchase price and a faster deal timeline. Yesterday, on Oct 7 Thao’s office told the Chronicle that “the city has received an outstanding $10 million payment” when in reality the contract attached to that same article reveals it is not true. The contract clearly states that the buyer need only provide “evidence of funds” by October 7, meaning the city has not received any of it yet. It gets worse. Not only did they not receive the funds, it turns out that $10M won’t be released from escrow until November 7. But there’s more… the agreement says the buyer can back out of the deal at any time - and that they get to keep their $10M - as long as it’s by November 6. One day after election day. So essentially, they are telling the public they have the money when they don’t - escrow is not the same as getting paid. And the due date is one day after the election so they can use this as a political win, only to cancel at the last minute. Look - I have no idea if the deal is happening or not. I have no inside information. But the contract is public and clear. The money is in escrow and the city likely doesn't have access to the $10M. We were told that severe budget cuts would be in place if we did not get $15M by September. In reality, we will not receive that money until after the November 5 election, if at all. Yet there are no budget cuts being discussed or announced. Another day in Oakland politics under Mayor Sheng Thao.