Hot Oakland Nights-Mayoral Swim Suit Competition

Forget the candidate’s night; let’s put the party back in the Democratic Party. I want a swim suit competition. Let’s see what they’re really made of. Let’s have a little skin and a little honesty. Stop the infomercial and get real here. Voters can’t take anymore pointless PR dribble, look what passes for insight from the Oakland Chamber of Commerce.

“The unanimous vote by OakPAC tonight shows that the business community has great confidence that Ignacio De La Fuente is the only person who can continue leading the Oakland renaissance of safer streets, better schools and greater economic vitality,” stated OakPAC Chair Woman Anna Chretian.

I don’t know what the Chamber of Commerce is smoking maybe they hooked up with the Cannabis Clubs, but this kind of alternate reality stuff sounds more like crack to me. Renaissance! If this is the Renaissance I do not want to see the dark ages. Safer streets, 36 murders this year and we have a white senior citizen ex-prison guard in charge of the police. I got nothing against white since I am, but this dude doesn’t do digital, that’s right no email and crime stats is on maternity leave so they’re drafting their reports and plans in the dirt with sticks.

Better schools, we have the most underpaid overworked physically at risk teachers on the planet and now we propose to cut their healthcare. This will make it impossible to recruit any new teachers and seal our place at the bottom of California schools. We have high school kids standing in the hall trying to hear the lectures in overcrowded classes and seven year olds walking to school on MacArthur Blvd get asked to get into the car by old men. While candidates discuss “development” we head toward a morale crisis for educators and a strike, which will disrupt the already unstable, lives of overworked parents and underserved youth. Forget the disaster preparedness you bozos – the disaster has arrived! This is not a test!

We know that crime, not kids is your top priority, but do you think there might be a teeny weenie connection between the absence of education and the prevalence of crime? Building a school doesn’t help if you can’t get teachers to instruct the children. So stop the babble, it’s show time you wannabes put on those slimming black Speedos and show us what you got.