Facing mounting public pressure to address last week’s FBI raid of her home, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao took a defiant tone at a news conference Monday, saying she is not  the target of the investigation and questioning its timing with the campaign to have her recalled. Reading from a prepared 10-minute statement at City Hall, … Continue reading Mayor Thao speaks out on FBI raid: ‘This wouldn’t have gone down the way it did if I was rich.’