The People of Oakland vs. Carroll Fife and her Husband. It’s time to recall her from the Oakland City Council. Public records, state investigations, and her own voting record reveal a consistent pattern of SELF-DEALING, family enrichment, and policies that have damaged District 3. Here’s the full picture: 1. The $2.1 Million Self-Dealing Scandal During her 2020 campaign, Fife was listed as President of Affect Real Change when her husband’s group submitted a bid for a massive security contract at Peralta Colleges. She resigned just 10 days before the board approved the $2,100,000 deal. One official contact number on the documents rang her personal cell phone. The organization had no required state security license and was later fined $5,000. The contract collapsed in embarrassment. 2. Family Enrichment at Public Expense After she took office, her family-controlled non-profit saw revenue explode from roughly $100,000 to over $3,100,000 in a single year. In 2022 alone her husband received $147,000, her mother received $84,791, and a close associate received $105,361. The same non-profit received $400,000 from an anti-police group she has repeatedly supported with city policy. 3. She Helped Defund the Police Fife was a primary architect of the 2021 budget move that stripped $17,400,000 from the Oakland Police Department. Mayor Schaaf warned this would cost 50 officers and delay emergency response times. She then cast the lone dissenting vote against $2,250,000 for automated license plate readers — tools proven to recover stolen vehicles and catch violent offenders. District 3 has suffered the consequences. 4. Radical Rejection of Property Rights Through the Moms 4 Housing operation she orchestrated, Fife publicly defended the ILLEGAL occupation of private property and told the press “there’s nothing more American than taking over a property.” She framed private ownership as colonialism and systemic violence. This is not mainstream Oakland. 5. Loyalty to Recalled Failures Fife was one of the loudest defenders of Mayor Sheng Thao and DA Pamela Price — both removed from office by decisive voter recalls in 2024. She dismissed the recalls as attacks by billionaires rather than legitimate public frustration with crime and dysfunction. She remains the highest-profile survivor of that FAILED coalition. 6. Pattern of Steering Contracts to Allies A formal complaint to the Oakland Public Ethics Commission alleged she interfered in city operations and attempted to steer lucrative trash-capture contracts to her domestic partner. While dismissed on narrow jurisdictional grounds, the pattern mirrors the earlier Peralta scandal.

People are saying Carroll Fife got bought. Then she got scared and reversed course. Behring Capital hired a City Hall lobbyist to “establish a relationship” with Oakland elected officials. Weeks later Fife stood next to CEO Colin Behring and sold his project on camera. She said she was still forming her opinion. She gave him the photo op anyway. That is what a bought politician looks like. The lobbyist opens the door. The councilmember shows up. The developer gets the shot. Residents get a lecture. Then the petition exploded and her own base turned. She scolded them for tone. “I’ve got y’all,” she said, after already standing with the CEO. Now a council meeting is coming and she wants a 45-day moratorium so she can pretend she was leading. She did not grow a conscience. She got caught. First the lobbyist. Then the cameras. Then the flip. Allegedly paid or not, she chose the developer when it was easy and the pause when it got hot. Oakland should treat that like what it is. Recall Flip Flop Fife.

Oakland councilwoman Carroll Fife seeks to spin her press conference with data center CEO. 🎥 Carroll Fife (District 3) posted a video of her remarks at a recent city council meeting, stating, "I wanna be clear once and for all that the reason I hosted that press conference was so that the [data center] developer could talk to the public through the media." 🎥 At that August 14 press conference, Fife defended the proposed data center as “not the large-scale mega facility that people have expressed” — directly contradicting anti-data center activists' claims about the project. oaklandreport.news/x/h-oakla…

Since 2022, I have been sounding the alarm about Sheng Thao, Carroll Fife, Rebecca Kaplan, Nikki Bas, and the culture of corruption, backroom dealing, incompetence, and political protection that has infected Oakland City Hall. Very soon, the entire city is going to have to confront just how much of what I warned about was real. Remember what happened along the way. City resources were used against me. Our City Attorney’s Office came after me. Oakland officials sought restraining orders against me. I was attacked, smeared, called crazy, dismissed, and repeatedly portrayed as the problem while I kept documenting what was happening in this city. It didn’t work. I kept talking. I kept organizing. I led the recall of the mayor. And for hundreds of episodes of Gotham Oakland, I kept the receipts. Now Sheng Thao is federally indicted, the Duongs are headed to trial with her, witnesses from across Oakland government are being called, recordings are coming out, and years of relationships and decisions inside City Hall are about to receive a level of scrutiny they have never received before. The train has left the station. And when more comes out, remember who was willing to say these things publicly when doing so came with a price—and who attacked the messenger, looked the other way, or defended the machine. So if you spent the last four years silent about Oakland corruption but suddenly have something to say about me, PLEASE DO. I want everyone to see it. They tried to make me shut up. I didn’t. They tried to discredit me. They couldn’t. They tried to make me go away. I’m still here and still fighting corruption in Oakland City Hall. And I am going to be EXTREMELY vocal as the receipts come out. Game on. NO CORRUPTION IN OAKLAND!!!

Whose district is it? Carroll Fife promoter of failed socialist extremist DSA-ALIGNED policies!

Oakland data center moratorium: council member juices stats, plays both sides of issue. Carroll Fife stood with the data center's CEO last month and said the proposed Oakland data center 'is not the large-scale mega facility that people have expressed.' Now she is proposing a moratorium citing 'mega' data centers that use 5 million gallons of water per day. But Oakland's would only use an estimated 5,100 gallons. A baseball field uses more. oaklandreport.org/p/data-cen…

Oakland council member trying to stop a data center going in at 415 20 Street. The building previously housed a supercomputing facility. Did anyone complain about that? And, technically, what's the difference? Both need power and water. oaklandside.org/2026/09/11/d…

Told ya so..... Carroll Fife's name is ALL OVER ALL OF THESE FBI wiretaps. It's a wrap for her, I have told y'all for YEARS, and also PROVED that she's corrupt. I CANNOT WAIT for this trail. It's time to CLEAN UP OAKLAND

That her at his funeral. Wearing RED 😡

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The Unhoused, Advocates and Businesses: Oakland’s Latest Political Tokens Carroll Fife has not been charged in this case. Still, her name comes up in Andy Duong’s account of the effort to sell Evolutionary Homes units to Oakland. In the recorded call, Duong says “Carol”—apparently referring to Fife—wanted some of the units placed in West Oakland so she could hold a press conference and call out Mayor Sheng Thao and the city administrator for not purchasing them. To be clear, this is Duong’s version of events. It does not prove that Fife was involved in the alleged bribery scheme. However, it does place her housing advocacy within the same time, circle of people and political activity now being examined in federal court. Later in the call, the unnamed councilmember asks Duong to line up business owners willing to say that RVs are “killing our business,” knowing that activists would likely oppose the upcoming RV policy. Meanwhile, the RVs and encampments along Mandela Parkway remain. Their abatement appears to be stalled—perhaps waiting for the next political campaign, press conference or convenient agenda. Read the full court-transcript coverage, oaklandreport.org/p/sheng-th…

🚨🔥 Sheng Thao, Carroll Fife & Rebecca Kaplan: The Oakland Political Machine EXPOSED As Thao's corruption trial nears, OAKLAND POLITICS IS GETTING UGLY. Who really has power in Oakland? Who benefits from the political alliances shaping City Hall? And why do so many of these stories seem to lead back to the same networks? This is the conversation they don’t want you having. Watch before you decide what to believe.

Remember during 2020 and Black Lives Matter when Carroll Fife was out here saying, “Riots are the voices of the unheard” and “By any means necessary,” while squatting on houses and calling for attacks on “landlords”? Remember when Fife cackled when masked protesters went and spray-painted former Mayor Libby Schaaf’s house with paintballs? And also surrounded Loren Taylor’s house, scaring his family, including young kids? Yeah, she’s now pearl-clutching when the same thing happens to HER. Fife is such a lying, hypocritical sellout. And if you still buy her BS, you’re a total buffoon.

Proven History:

Once again, Carroll Fife says she is receiving death threats—this time after appearing with Behring Companies CEO Colin Behring at an August 14 news conference. I say “once again” because the first time I remember hearing claims like this was during the Moms 4 Housing controversy. Then, shortly after taking office as the District 3 councilmember, Fife reportedly received threats from both unhoused and housed residents. Those threats were used to justify having her partner—her longtime boyfriend or husband—serve as her bodyguard. Since then, the claims of threats and harassment seem to surface whenever Fife becomes involved in a controversial issue: defunding OPD, police staffing and budget debates, the Howard Terminal ballpark proposal, and the national and Fox News coverage that followed the fatal stabbing of a 71-year-old Dilma Spruill Oakland postal worker. Now it is the proposed data center. At some point, it is fair to ask why chaos and drama seem to follow Fife from one controversy to the next—and how much of it is self-inflicted and theatrics. Serious threats should never be dismissed. But because of the frequency and topics it starting to look less like a public-safety concern and more like what I would call “false victimology”—claiming victimhood to attract sympathy, rally supporters and redirect attention. Fife’s recent appearance in Fruitvale, located in Councilmember Noel Gallo’s District 5, also feels familiar. The meeting was hosted by one of her political allies, the Party for Socialism and Liberation. We saw a similar approach during the Howard Terminal debate and, more recently, with the Costco proposal: organize elsewhere instead of meeting directly with the District 3 residents and businesses most affected. To me, this felt less like a genuine community meeting and more like a political strategy session held in preparation for an upcoming City Council meeting—one where Fife appears determined to control both the discussion and the outcome.

Beautiful Sunday in Oakland. Residents near Manzanita Park were told to shelter in place because a man with a gun was running through backyards. He allegedly threatened to kill a woman in the park. When police showed up, he shot at them. Officers fired back. The woman was rescued. The suspect fled armed. This is what “progress” looks like under Barbara Lee. People locked inside their homes on a Sunday afternoon because the streets still belong to whoever is willing to pull a trigger. Leave Barbara Lee off your ballot for Mayor of Oakland 2026.