{"id":351278,"date":"2026-06-08T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351278\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:44:09","slug":"oakland-mayor-announces-she-is-running-for-reelection-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351278\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland mayor announces she is running for reelection \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland&#8217;s mayor announced Saturday she is officially running for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on social media, Barbara Lee said her work is not finished, and she wants to keep fighting for a comprehensive approach to homelessness, more affordable housing, public safety, good paying jobs, and safe, clean neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>She also outlined some of her accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Lee took credit for lowering crime rates, modeling gun violence reduction, cutting homelessness in half, and breaking ground on affordable housing units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland&#8217;s mayor announced Saturday she is officially running for reelection. In a message posted on social media, Barbara&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-351278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351278","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=351278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}