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Signature Gathering Kicks Off for Recall of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

by Dave Id
The Take Back Oakland Coalition is now gathering signatures to recall Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. On September 18, recall organizers handed out the first recall petitions all afternoon in front of Oakland City Hall. Volunteers seeking to remove Schaaf from office then fanned out across city neighborhoods to collect signatures. It will be a steep climb to collect the 33,000 valid signatures of registered voters required to call a special election for the recall, but those involved are fed up with Schaaf as mayor and committed to seeing her removed.
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[Photo: In front of City Hall, organizers distribute recall-related materials to volunteer canvassers.]


As an all-volunteer grass-roots effort without paid signature gatherers, the Take Back Oakland Coalition urges everyone upset with Libby Schaaf's failures as mayor to get involved. Primary among the objections to Schaaf are her inaction in the face of massive displacement of long-time residents, the deference she continues to show to the corrupt and murderous Oakland police department, and her failure to support local youth and job centers.

It was July when the Take Back Oakland Coalition announced the recall. It took two more months before the official recall petition was finally approved by the city clerk, after some back and forth wrangling regarding legal requirements and waiting for formal replies from the mayor's office.

The Take Back Oakland Coalition has 160 days to collect enough signatures for the special election to be called, making their deadline January 2017. Should enough valid signatures be collected, the special election would come at some point after that, likely in the spring.


To sign the petition or help with the campaign:

#BYELIBBY: Recall Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
http://byelibby.com


Also see:

Oakland Approves Petition to Recall Mayor Schaaf
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/24/18791644.php

Recall of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Underway Due to Growing Discontent in City
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/25/18789451.php
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§Too Many Murdered. Too Many Displaced. #ByeLIbby
by Dave Id
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Banner hang at City Hall during a Freedom Now protest in Oakland on July 21.
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