Political climate is changing as Oakland mayor faces recall, residents fed up with 'progressives': report
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The California city of Oakland could be heading towards a change in the political climate as residents become fed up with mounting housing costs, homelessness, and crime.
Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao (OUST) submitted its petition in June to have the mayor recalled. Officials in Alameda County confirmed they had met the threshold of 25,000 voter signatures, qualifying the measure for the November ballot. Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Steven Tavares, a local politics writer for the East Bay Insiders newsletter, said that the progressive push since 2011 is dying down. Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
"It was basically carte blanche for progressives," Tavares said about the Occupy movement that occurred in San Francisco in 2011. "But we’re now leaving that golden era." Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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