“She had a mantra , ‘Barbara Lee Speaks for Me,’ and that’s what we all say, because she really did represent the community and fought for the rights of the people,” s…
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, greets supporters during her Super Tuesday election night gathering in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Perhaps no moment better underscored what set Oakland’s Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee apart from her leading rivals in the race for California’s open U.S. Senate seat — as well as most of her colleagues in Congress — as an exchange in the debate.
Ultimately, it wasn’t enough to propel her into the Senate. Lee, 77, finished a distant fourth in the primary that will send Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank and former baseball star Garvey of Palm Desert to a November runoff while she serves out the remaining months of her 13th House term this year.
“I really think the life she actually lived and the things she had to experience being Black and being a female helped,” Jackson said. “All the adversity she faced to accomplish the goals she accomplished, it made her stronger and more determined, knowing that if she persevered, lifted her voice, people would listen. She had a mantra, ‘Barbara Lee Speaks for Me,’ and that’s what we all say because she really did represent the community and fought for the rights of the people.
While earning a master’s in social work at UC-Berkeley, Lee founded a community mental health clinic before joining the office of Oakland’s Rep. Ron Dellums, a noted anti-war activist and staunch foe of Apartheid, where she became his chief of staff. In 1990 she was elected to Harris’ Assembly district seat when he became Oakland’s mayor, won a state Senate seat in 1996 and then the House seat of former boss Dellums in 1998 when he retired from Congress.
“History records her well on that vote,” said Lynette Gibson McElhaney, a former Oakland City Council member. “But it was frightening at the time.”
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