{"id":351093,"date":"2026-06-08T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351093\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:48:17","slug":"oakland-mayor-barbara-lee-announces-reelection-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351093\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announces reelection campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OAKLAND, Calif. (<a href=\"http:\/\/kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:KRON;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KRON&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KRON<\/a>) \u2013 Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced her reelection campaign Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOne year ago, Oaklanders made a clear choice,\u201d Lee said in a news release. \u201cWe chose to come together \u2013 labor and business, neighbors and community leaders, residents from every part of our city \u2013 around a shared belief that Oakland can be safer, cleaner, stronger, and more hopeful. And today, I am proud to say: Oakland is on the Move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She will be running for a four-year term. Her current term runs through Jan. 4, 2027. The election is set for Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lee was elected in 2025 during a special election after former mayor Sheng Thao was recalled. As Oakland\u2019s 52nd mayor, she became the first Black woman to lead the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) \u2013 Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced her reelection campaign Saturday. \u201cOne year ago, Oaklanders made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2351,143,145,144,143554],"class_list":["post-351093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-barbara-lee","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-reelection-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}