Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao gave her first interview with a news organization on Tuesday following the FBI raid on her house at the end of June.
In a one-on-one interview with KTVU, Thao appeared confident and calm, answering some questions about the agents scouring her Maiden Lane home, but refusing to answer others.She also talked about the recall effort against her, the budget, the sale of the Oakland Coliseum and the city's new police chief, Floyd Mitchell.Here is her interview with anchor Andre Senior. The questions and answers have been edited lightly for clarity and rearranged according to topic.
Q: You said during that press conference as well that there are some billionaires that don't live in from San Francisco and in Piedmont that you said have something against your administration and want you out of office. What can you tell us about that? Because that was the first time I heard any sort of thing like that.
Q: Should the council set up a date for the recall and move forward with it? If we're still in the process of verifying the signatures and who's donating, as the ethics part of looking into the recall effort, should we be moving ahead with that? A: Well, that's not my proposal….I've already had my mayor's proposed budget out, and it's been out for a few weeks now. The key item is public safety. First and foremost, that's our Department of Violence Prevention. That's our police department, our fire department. And then not just that, but a clean city. We're just talking about the basics here, right? A clean city is what we all deserve.
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