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A’s beat Rangers, tied again for first in AL West

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September 4, 2013

Oakland, CA – Baseball doesn’t get any better than this. The A’s not only won the series but they rejoin the Rangers atop the American League West Division again, after Oakland’s 11-4 victory over Texas.

The A’s offense opened up in the sixth to dominate Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish. An unusual performance for a pitcher who leads the Majors in strikeouts, but walked six batters and was all over the place on the mound.

Darvish scattered six runs over five hits. He seemed frustrated after arguing with catcher A.J. Pierzynski and pitching coach Mike Maddux. The play that ended his outing was a two-run homer to Daric Barton after he issued a free pass to Alberto Callaspo.

“It wasn’t a good day for him, that’s all,” said Texas manager Ron Washington. “He didn’t have his command. That can’t happen if you take the ball enough. There is no reason to push the panic button. Yu is human, he is like everybody else. He can have a bad day when it just doesn’t work, today was that day.

“I thought they had finished the conversations and I had turned around and stepped off the mound,” Darvish said in his defense while he was pitching. “Obviously, I was frustrated, but I felt the conversations were over.”

Oakland’s offense definitely thwarted Yu out of the game. They scored a total of six runs that included two home runs by Brandon Moss and Josh Donaldson. Moss homered off a fly ball to center field while Donaldson went deep to left field scoring in three runs for a 9-2 lead.

“When we face a good pitcher, what are we going to do? We’re going to be shut down or we’re going to be able to score runs? That’s been a question mark for us the last couple of years,” said Brandon. “I think over the last couple of weeks, with the pitching staffs we’ve been facing, we’ve been putting together some nice offensive runs and it’s doing a lot for our confidence because we know we can beat those guys.”

Coco Crisp also got in on the action and hit his 18th home run of the season in the eighth. His two-run shot was the third home run for the A’s. Crisp has hit four home runs in his last five games and has scored at least one run in each of his last seven games.

“It’s going to be fun,” Donaldson said on the Rangers upcoming series on Sept 13th. “This is where everyone wants to be right now, in this position to control your own destiny and hopefully win a division title. I feel like everyone’s feeling good about themselves, and we’re playing good baseball right now.”

Texas bullpen collapsed and the defense made some costly errors. Leadoff hitter for the Rangers, Leonys Martin struggled against the sun in center field. Stephen Vogt doubled due to Martin fighting the sunlight and could not see the ball coming toward him. Josh also doubled off Leonys who again misjudged the fly ball hit to him.

The Rangers scored three runs, Jim Adduci scored off Martin’s double and Craig Gentry’s RBI single in the third cut Oakland’s lead 3-2. Texas failed to score again until Geovany Soto blasted a solo home to center field in the ninth. The loss dropped them back into a tie for first place in their division.

“You can look at this series any way you want, but we lost two of the three and now we’re even,” said Ian Kinsler. “We have 23 games left and we have to win one more than them. There is not much to make of this series other than they beat us two out of three.”

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Oakland Awarded $28 Million Grant from Governor Newsom to Sustain Long-Term Solutions Addressing Homelessness

Governor Gavin Newsom announced the City of Oakland has won a$28,446,565.83 grant as part of the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) grant program. This program provides flexible grant funding to help communities support people experiencing homelessness by creating permanent housing, rental and move-in assistance, case management services, and rental subsidies, among other eligible uses.

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Governor Gavin Newsom announced the City of Oakland has won a$28,446,565.83 grant as part of the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) grant program.

This program provides flexible grant funding to help communities support people experiencing homelessness by creating permanent housing, rental and move-in assistance, case management services, and rental subsidies, among other eligible uses.

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and the Oakland City Administrator’s Office staff held a press conference today to discuss the grant and the City’s successful implementing of the Mayor’s Executive Order on the Encampment Management Policy.

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Pamela Price Appoints Deputy D.A. Jennifer Kassan as New Director of Community Support Bureau

On Monday, District Attorney Pamela Price announced Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Kassan as the new director of the Community Support Bureau. Kassan has over 25 years of experience as an attorney and advisor for mission-driven enterprises including benefit corporations, low-profit limited liability companies, nonprofits, cooperatives, hybrid organizations, investment funds, and purpose trusts.

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Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Kassan. Courtesy photo.

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On Monday, District Attorney Pamela Price announced Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Kassan as the new director of the Community Support Bureau.

Kassan has over 25 years of experience as an attorney and advisor for mission-driven enterprises including benefit corporations, low-profit limited liability companies, nonprofits, cooperatives, hybrid organizations, investment funds, and purpose trusts.

Working in the DA’s new administration since 2023, Kassan was most recently assigned to the Organized Retail Theft Prosecution team.

Kassan has a master’s degree in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship from Yale Law School, and graduated from Yale Law School in 1995. She earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor emphasis in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley.

Kassan’s education, extensive legal background, list of notable accomplishments and impressive resume includes helping to found and lead multiple organizations to support community wealth building including:

Community Ventures, a nonprofit organization that promotes locally-based community economic development,
the Sustainable Economies Law Center, a nonprofit that provides legal information, training, and representation to support sustainable economies
the Force for Good Fund, a nonprofit impact investment fund
Crowdfund Main Street, a licensed portal for regulation crowdfunding
Opportunity Main Street, a place-based ecosystem building organization that supports under-represented entrepreneurs and provides education about community-based investing.

In addition, Kassan served as an elected member of the City Council of Fremont, California from 2018 to 2024, and on the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies.

In 2020 she was named to the list of World-Changing Women in Conscious Business by SOCAP Global.

“We are excited to see Jenny accept the role as the new leader for the Community Support Bureau,” said Price. “She brings a wealth of talent, experience, and a vision to expand our office’s engagement with community groups and residents, that will level-up our

outreach programs and partnerships with local organizations with the aim of promoting crime prevention.

“We thank Interim CSB Director Esther Lemus, who is now assigned to our office’s

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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s Open Letter to Philip Dreyfuss, Recall Election’s Primary Funder

Oaklanders Defending Democracy, a group opposing the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, shared an open letter she wrote to Philip Dreyfuss of Farallon Capital, a coal hedge fund. According to Thao’s supporters, “Dreyfuss is the primary funder of the recall effort to remove her from office. He has not explained his motivations or answered one question about why he’s funding the recall or what his agenda is for Oakland.

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Publishers note: Oaklanders Defending Democracy, a group opposing the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, shared an open letter she wrote to Philip Dreyfuss of Farallon Capital, a coal hedge fund.

According to Thao’s supporters, “Dreyfuss is the primary funder of the recall effort to remove her from office. He has not explained his motivations or answered one question about why he’s funding the recall or what his agenda is for Oakland.

“All we know about him is his firm has invested over $2 billion in coal since 2022. Farallon Capital is a global hedge fund with $39 billion capital under management, headquartered in San Francisco, the supporters say.

The effort to recall Mayor Sheng Thao was built on top of an argument about a crime wave, pinning the blame for it on a newly elected Mayor. Now that crime has dropped massively, recall proponents are left with no compelling argument.

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Dear Philip Dreyfuss,

We haven’t met. As you know, I’m the Mayor of Oakland, elected in 2022 to serve and protect this city. Since stepping into office, I’ve tackled rising crime, homelessness, and budget challenges head-on, working tirelessly for Oakland’s future.

You are a hedge-fund manager and coal investor who doesn’t live in Oakland who is trying to buy our city government. But the people didn’t elect you, they elected me to protect them from people like you.

Shortly after my term began, you launched a campaign to remove me from office, pouring in nearly $500,000 of your own wealth. We’ll know the outcome of your campaign on Nov. 6, but let’s be clear about what’s at stake.

Since I took office, crime has dropped over 30%—we’re on track for less than 100 homicides for the first time since 2019, with 15,000 fewer crimes overall.

We’ve invested hundreds of millions into affordable housing, modernized our 911 system, streamlined construction permitting, and are fighting to make Oakland a safer and cleaner city.

If your recall succeeds, Oakland will see four mayors in just five years, another election for mayor the following year and a whopping $10 million cost to taxpayers. In other words, chaos. None of this will impact you because you don’t live here.

Oaklanders deserve to know who you are. I looked into your record and found that the hedge fund you help manage, Farallon Capital, has invested over $2 billion in coal since 2022.

For years, Oakland has stood tall against coal money threatening the health of West Oakland, Chinatown, Jack London and downtown.

Did you know that life expectancy in West Oakland is 7.5 years lower than the County average? Or that our children suffer from asthma at a rate twice as high as the rest of the County?

Philip, instead of trying to use your wealth to hijack our democracy and create chaos in our city you could have put your money where your mouth is.

Instead of investing in coal you could have invested in our young people—created scholarships for our college-bound kids, funded apprenticeships for those who want to learn a trade or helped rid our schools of lead.

Instead, you chose to divide us while you try to buy us. But I’m here to tell you, Philip, on behalf of the 450,000 residents of my city that Oakland is not for sale. NO to coal. NO to chaos. And NO to your selfish and self-serving recall.

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, City Hall, Oakland