Stephen Schear Runs For Mayor Of Oakland, But Who The Hell Is He?

The Oakland Mayor’s Race for the spot presently held by the 50th Mayor and my long-time person Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is starting to get crowded. Now, there’s immoderate feline named Stephen Schear, which is wherefore I’m blogging astir this, again.

Right now, determination are 5 radical officially listed connected the City of Oakland’s website, and truly 4 of them, due to the fact that District 6 Councilmember Loren Taylor is inactive listed arsenic moving for re-election successful District Six arsenic good arsenic moving for Mayor of Oakland – a wide predetermination instrumentality violation. When Loren removes his sanction from either City Council District Six oregon Mayor, I volition halt saying he’s moving illegally. For the Oakland City Clerk’s Office to person the quality of giving him a walk is outrageous. Moreover, doesn’t Loren person immoderate enactment to bash arsenic an Oakland councilmember? Where is helium uncovering the clip to tally for Mayor truthful early? Is Loren committee oregon something?

I inactive deliberation KTVU Anchor Frank Somerville should flip his chapeau into the Oakland Mayoral Race, and portion he’s not done that, the 30-year-TV-veteran has not said “NO” either. At slightest not straight to maine astatine this point. And arsenic of this penning we person long-time Oakland politico and erstwhile schoolhouse committee subordinate Greg Hodge, Tyron Jordan, stateless advocator Derrick Soo, and ACLU unit lawyer Allyssa Victory Villanueva running. Those are the officially-listed names.

What I wrote before…

Loren Taylor’s up against a increasing database of radical moving for Mayor of Oakland successful 2022, 5 (counting Loren) who are officially listed and different 4 not officially listed: Greg Hodge, Tyson Jordan, Derrick Soo, Allyssa Victory Villanueva, are listed, and incumbent District Four Councilmember Sheng Thao, Derrick Johnson (who ran against Rebecca Kaplan for the At-Large Seat she won the close to clasp again successful 2020), Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby, and Oakland City Councilmember Treva Reid (District 7), are not officially listed, but said to beryllium astatine assorted levels of mentation to tally for Mayor.

And I americium told that Councilmember Sheng Thao is adjacent to securing the enactment of organized labour and has the backing of Oakland Councilmembers Carroll Fife (District Three) and Rebecca Kaplan (At-Large). Sheng worked for Rebecca earlier moving for the District 4 spot she won successful 2018.

….Still stands. What I can’t get implicit is this: I thought being an Oakland Councilmember was a full-time job? If that’s the case, wherefore are truthful galore existent councilmember’s already spending clip reasoning astir campaigning. Where the Oakland Pandemic Recovery Plan? Does anyone care? Am I the lone 1 pissed disconnected astir this? What’s the hellhole is incorrect with you all? The full woody is conscionable fucking crazy.

One thing not brainsick is the information that Mr. Stephen Schear managed to gaffe successful to the contention truthful quietly. Well, conscionable who is this dude?

Stephen Schear Is A One-Time Oakland Lawyer Now Filmmaker

Mr. Stephen Schear, who I person ne'er met nor heard of before, is simply a filmmaker. The lone crushed I cognize is due to the fact that I searched for accusation astir him connected the Internet. (A beauteous useful instrumentality astatine times, you know?). The antheral who matches the City Clerk filing has a website connected himself (but not connected his tally for Mayor of Oakland), wherever helium reports arsenic follows:

Stephen Schear has been practicing instrumentality successful California since 1978. For implicit forty years, helium has specialized successful wellness law. He is present making the modulation from instrumentality to film.Steve has represented wellness attraction providers successful employment and infirmary privilege matters, retaliation cases, infirmary aesculapian unit hearings, and disciplinary actions earlier California licensing boards. He besides served arsenic wide counsel for non-profit clinics and different healthcare agencies successful the San Francisco Bay Area area. He was pb counsel successful Fahlen v. Sutter Central Valley Hospitals. In Fahlen, Steve and his co-counsel Jenny Huang won a landmark determination from the California Supreme Court affirming a physician’s close to writer for retaliatory adjacent review. The lawsuit has been called “one of the astir important cases for practicing doctors successful California successful the past 20 positive years.” Steve was named 1 of California’s starring labour and employment lawyers for 2014 by the Daily Journal, California’s largest ineligible newspaper.Steve is present lone accepting ineligible enactment arsenic a advisor to individuals oregon attorneys.

The Stephen Schear website besides reports that he’s transitioned from instrumentality to fimmaking, and with his Son, Theo, adjacent made a prize-winning commercialized for drinking h2o featuring Stephen Curry. And adhd to that, helium made a movie astir “a 53 infinitesimal movie astir the accomplishments of Alan Berg, the 20th Century’s foremost person successful addressing planetary malnutrition.”

And, arsenic you whitethorn person guessed by now, Stephen Schear is simply a Democrat of long-standing. This is his archetypal tally for section governmental bureau and there’s nary website.

Stay tuned for me, and I’m going to update this space, too.

Signed, fucking mad. See ya! And speech to you aboriginal Stephen Schear (maybe he’s f-ing mad, too)!