{"id":6413,"date":"2010-09-29T02:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T02:09:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-29T02:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T02:09:08","slug":"Oakland-Mayoral-candidate-does-some-creative-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6413","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Mayoral candidate does some creative campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oakland Mayoral candidate Jean Quan<\/strong> and her supporters put together a video about her work with youth, neighbors, and merchants on how to take Oakland back and lower crime and violence block by block. <\/p>\n<p>You can watch it below. It&#8217;s a little obvious that <strong>Quan<\/strong> is attempting to target the hip, urban youth. It looks like a really bad rap video though.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6ILhS-8La0g&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6ILhS-8La0g&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>However, the <strong>Quan<\/strong> team has created a new video called <strong>DREAM A Better Oakland<\/strong>.  It&#8217;s a promotion for her \u201cEnvisioning East Oakland\u201d townhall this Saturday in the Elmhurst neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>The premise of the video is that she is giving some kids a ride to one of her house parties.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8i1NxQ83oEQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8i1NxQ83oEQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? I don&#8217;t know. To me, I was really waiting for Ms. Quan to bust into part of the rap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So how is Jean Quan doing?<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to a recent poll, Don Perata (Quan&#8217;s competition) leads in most zip codes, Jean Quan\u2019s 94611 base picks her over the competition by a couple of percentage points. Also, the robo-poll called 30,000 likely voters across Oakland, and received 1,435 responses. The machine got the highest number of responses (223) in 94611.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does her competition think of the Quan campaign?<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is what the communications director for the Perata campaign had to say: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou would have expected that, given her previous advice on seat-belt safety, she would have insisted the young gentlemen in the back of her car wear their seat-belts. It\u2019s not the first time Jean Quan has been exposed for, \u201cdo as I say, not what I do\u201d. 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