In the wake of Oakland's Ghost Ship tragedy, the world has gotten to witness Oakland, CA elected officials and department heads attempt to pass the blame rather than try to find solutions to a very obvious failure of management and leadership.
This isn't about lack of funds.
This is about City of Oakland elected officials and department heads playing the blame game, and passing the buck (and throwing each other under the bus, rather than owning up to the actual problem)
In response, I started tweeting the various scandals that have plagued Oakland over the past 5 years.
And as I did more research, I kept finding that some of these issues have repeatedly re-appeared, but nobody remembered the back story. So now I've expanded it to 15 years. The list is staggering, and has exceeded what I can really show on twitter.
It does not paint a pretty picture of Oakland, but it's time that we really looked at what is happening in city hall. I'm hoping by publishing these issues, we can push for a change (and perhaps clean out some of the problem employees and elected officials)
It does not paint a pretty picture of Oakland, but it's time that we really looked at what is happening in city hall. I'm hoping by publishing these issues, we can push for a change (and perhaps clean out some of the problem employees and elected officials)
In my personal experience dealing with Oakland's Building Services Dept (Code Enforcement, Planning) and Oakland's Fire Inspection Department, I found that these departments not only failed to communicate, but some employees were disrespectful and flatly refused to do their jobs. To a degree that I still question if there was money changing hands. I know of other tenants who have experienced similar issues (with the same inspectors).
It's time for a change. Before more people end up dead.
