Zennie Abraham On How Oakland Politics & The Oakland Coliseum JPA Blew It With The Oakland Roots

Zennie Abraham On How Oakland Politics & The Oakland Coliseum JPA Blew It With The Oakland Roots
Zennie Abraham On How Oakland Politics & The Oakland Coliseum JPA Blew It With The Oakland Roots. The main problem with the Oakland Roots is that the City of Oakland, and the County of Alameda in the form of the Oakland=Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority allowed a small group of people who had very little money to start a sports team that could bring major league crowds to act like one. The fact is, the City and County failed to actually reject their idea or fund them in accordance with an economic development plan. The fact is the Oakland Roots got in because of a meeting that Roots Founder Lindsay Barenz had a home meeting with then Oakland District Seven Councilmember Treva Reid who had a seat on the Coliseum JPA. In other words, there was no Oakland-Alameda County Sports Commission with sports business people on it, and no planning process to bring up new leagues and teams to be in Oakland. As usual the entire matter was done in a piecemeal fashion: in fits and starts always with the chance that the whole thing would collapse. And that's where it is. Rather than the Coliseum JPA raising money to help the Oakland Roots pay rent, it gives them a "pay -to-play" game to game deal. That's Oakland doing it on the cheap, yet again. What a complete disaster of a way to run a city. Yet, that's what we do in Oakland: allow a politically-motivated set of actions without solid funding, and then expect them to work. Stay tuned, 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://ift.tt/pwoE3zD
via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnC7PwIU0yo August 3, 2026 at 07:52PM