The last time we checked in with Mayor Sheng Thao of Oakland, things were not going very well. In mid-June a recall election was approved and then the very next day her home was raided by the FBI.
For several days, the mayor seemed to be MIA. Then she gave a defiant press conference during which she said she’d done nothing wrong. She even suggested the timing of the raid, a day after the recall was approved, was suspicious.
Apparently her lawyer and her spokesman weren’t on board with those comments because they both quit. It felt at the time as if Thao might give in to the pressure and resign but she held on. Not much has happened over the past month except that there have been some indications that her partner, Andre Jones, is also part of the FBI investigation.
After a month of relative quiet, today the Oakland Police Union weighed in, demanding that Thao resign immediately or…