Click here<\/a> for a complete list of our election recommendations. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Campaign spending in Oakland\u2019s mayoral race highlights just how broken the city\u2019s political system is.<\/p>\n More than $1.2 million, half of all spending for the four leading candidates, comes from independent expenditure committees controlled by three special interest groups. And it\u2019s going to just two of the four candidates, as reporters Shomik Mukherjee and Harriet Blair Rowan highlighted<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n More than $700,000 of $1.1 million spent in support of Sheng Thao has come from committees tied to labor unions. More than $527,000 of $708,000 spent backing Ignacio De La Fuente has come from an investment group seeking to export coal through Oakland and from Realtors.<\/p>\n
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