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    Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf: Left-wing heroine or a symbol of the left coast lunacy?

    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Mar 19, 2018 5 minutes

    OAKLAND, Calif. - When Mayor Libby Schaaf delivered her most recent State of the City address, she moved the event from Oakland's City Hall to a location rife with symbolism, the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California.

    It was a way of sending a message, about openness and inclusion, that was characteristic of a mayor known more for the quiet details of policy planning than the clenched-fist politics of this urban liberal hotbed.

    What followed a few weeks later, tipping off the community to an impending federal immigration raid, was an even more emphatic statement.

    The results were swift: condemnation by the nation's attorney general and its chief immigration enforcement officer, a dressing-down from President Donald Trump and Schaaf's overnight transformation - depending how

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