It Is Time to Clear Up Political Mail
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large–
The November 2020 Elections were pretty rough—and involved massive expenditures by wealthy corporations trying to buy their way, who sought special loopholes for themselves from laws everyone else has to follow. Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the
Citizens United case in favor of money and corporate influence in political campaigns, we knew that the scales were going to tip in favor of well-funded deception and political dirty tricks.
I know first-hand how far corporations will go to defeat a candidate who calls for fairness. Big companies like Uber and Lyft spent over $200 million in California to buy special rights for themselves. Lyft spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in a local city council race, in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat me in my race for re-election to the Oakland City Council.