{"id":353369,"date":"2026-06-09T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353369\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:34:07","slug":"oakland-mayor-barbara-lee-to-seek-re-election-in-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353369\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee to seek re-election in fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee\u2019s name was not on the ballot during last week\u2019s primary elections. But she said over the weekend that it will be in November.<\/p>\n

The longtime former congresswoman, who took over as Oakland’s mayor after her predecessor left in disgrace, launched her campaign for a full four-year term on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old Lee won a race in April 2025 to finish former Mayor Sheng Thao’s term. Thao was recalled in 2024 amid allegations of bribery.<\/p>\n

On social media, Lee said<\/a> she was running for re-election \u201cbecause our work together for a vibrant Oakland is far from finished.\u201d<\/p>\n

During her term in the mayor’s office, she said, homicides have fallen to a 58-year low and violent crime has declined.<\/p>\n

She added that her administration has mobilized more than 10,000 volunteers through a “Keep the Town Clean” initiative.<\/p>\n

Lee’s current term runs through Jan. 4th of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee\u2019s name was not on the ballot during last week\u2019s primary elections. But she said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-353369","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\/353369","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=353369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}