Kerry Hamill talks to Phil Tagami on TagamiVision

If you missed the last interview with Kerry Hamill on TagamiVision, which debuted during the primary campaign, you can view it here. Now that the field for the at-large Council seat has narrowed to just Hamill and Rebecca Kaplan, it’s time for a new installment.

Watch below as Hamill explains the differences she sees between herself and Kaplan and shares her thoughts on the current City Council’s performance, Oakland’s crime problems, police deployment, youth services, gun control, former Mayor Elihu Harris, former Mayor Jerry Brown, and current Mayor Ron Dellums.

So…what do you guys think?

Trying something new

First, I want to say how thrilled I am that I’ve been getting so many comments lately. It’s very exciting, and I’ve expanded the recent comments section on the side here to display 10, not 5 comments.

Anyway, it seems clear that there’s a lot of things people want to talk about that aren’t particularly relevant to what I’m posting about, and I really would rather the discussion stays at least relatively close to the topic of the post. But I don’t want to deny people a forum to talk about other Oakland political issues, so I’m going to try posting open threads here every few days.

I’ll link to stuff I find interesting, but am not planning on writing a whole blog about, and then you guys can feel free to talk about whatever you’re concerned about, whether or not I’ve written about it here. We’ll see how it works. Anyway, here’s your first open thread. Enjoy!

TagamiVision now has interviews up with District 3 City Council candidates Sean Sullivan and Nancy Nadel. Here’s a quick preview:

Watch the whole thing on Novometro Television.