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This video of the Saturday, November 15th No on 8 Rally at Oakland City Hall was created by YouTuber marymactavish. I believe the speaker is At-Large Councilmember-Elect Rebecca Kaplan. (I was and still am out of town.) The passage of Prop 8 has caused a number of protests in California and around the country. Hopefully the initiative will be repealed in the courts.

Rebecca Kaplan 61431 61.95 Kerry Hamill 36845 37.16 Rebecca Kaplan finally scored a victory she's worked hard to get for years; she deserves it.  More on her victory later. 

In the At-Large Oakland City Council race,  Kerry Hamill's switch from supporting to opposing Measure NN to establish a new tax for police may have been the nail in the coffin of her backing from some persons and news groups. That's certainly true for the East Bay Express, which backed Hamill in the primary but then switched to Kaplan for the general election.  The Express also backed Tom Bates for Mayor of Berkeley.   I will make my video explaining my endorsement choices on Saturday.   

Oakland At Large Council candidate Rebecca Kaplan sat down with me to talk about her run for the position at Cafe Verbena on Tuesday of this week.   She's running against Kerry Hamill in the runoff election.