Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH]
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- Not sure how or why, but Gallagher's influence, and his confidence in it it, has grown in the past year. Port of Oakland gave him a rent deferral on Scott's Seafood. And he had an op ed in the EBT just a couple of weeks ago trashing the org that just gave him free rent
- Raymond Ghallagher was a big donor to Armstrong's campaign & led a fight to kill City purchase of a JLS-adjacent hotel for homeless assisted living. Jenkins had a fundraiser at his biz Scott's Seafood. The Walnut Creek resident donated to both Jenkins & Wang under a business LLC
- An astroturf campaign finance committee run by a white man who lives in Piedmont is no more.
- Warren Logan lobbied CM Brown to include Isaac Abid's "Northlake"-branded neighborhood in City's million $$ "entertainment zones". "Northlake" is listed as Logan's employer, but its astroturf for Abid's "Lakeside Group". Logan got $100s of K from Abid & allies in his council run.
- Loren Taylor & his white big business friends formed a fake group that KTVU immediately started partnering with weeks after it was founded and visibly had no membership. Still doing it too. The Fox takeover of that station was the death knell of independent journalism in Oakland
- Bay area media's lack of public interest interest on Oakland's budget leads to some of its most permanently misinformatory reporting. FY 24-25 closed with a $16 MM surplus even civilian layoffs. Every dept underspent but OFD and OPD-the surplus would have been $41 MM otherwise.
