{"id":351131,"date":"2026-06-08T01:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351131\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:25:18","slug":"oakland-mayor-barbara-lee-announces-reelection-campaign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351131\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announces reelection campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:KRON;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"KRON\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Sun, June 7, 2026 at 2:09 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_kron_articles_505\/0b5ec2556621fe50699235d638d28615.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (<a data-ylk=\"slk:KRON;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"http:\/\/kron4.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KRON<\/a>) \u2013 Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced her reelection campaign Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One year ago, Oaklanders made a clear choice,&#8221; Lee said in a news release. &#8220;We 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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>Lee was elected in 2025 during a special election after former mayor Sheng Thao was recalled. As Oakland&#8217;s 52nd mayor, she became the first Black woman to lead the city.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, June 7, 2026 at 2:09 PM UTC OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) \u2013 Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2351,143,145,144,143554],"class_list":["post-351131","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\/351131","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=351131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}