Zennie Abraham's Email To Oakland Focused Media & Groups Producing Oakland Mayoral Forums: Do Better - Oaknews
Zennie Abraham's Email To Oakland Focused Media & Groups Producing Oakland Mayoral Forums: Do Better On Thursday, March 5th, 2025, I issued the following email regarding how these Oakland Mayoral Forums have started to bring less value to the Oakland Electorate than the initial group. All of them are basically the same with a person or panel asking questions, the candidates giving answers, and none of them broadcast in a multi-media organization way so the largest number of Oaklanders can see them. But the biggest problem of all is the question format: it has nothing to do with actually running an Oakland Mayor's Office at all. And it's hard to determine what kind of leader we're going to get from that format. So, we get the same answers to the same questions again and again, and learn nothing in the process. There's a bigger problem at play and I address it here: Greetings Everyone, I will issue this view. These forums have become completely monotonous and at...