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California: Deborah Edgerly

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 11:52

FBI serves subpoena as part of investigation into former Oakland city administrator

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

OAKLAND - The FBI has apparently served a subpoena to Oakland city officials as part of an investigation into alleged improprieties by former City Administrator Deborah Edgerly.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle in this story, the subpoena was served to collect information on Edgerly and her children and relatives that worked for or continue to be employed by the city.

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Fri, 07/11/2008 - 07:14

Winners and losers of the week

By Wally S. Edge

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Carly Fiorini and George W. Bush are both winners and losers this week. Find out why, and see the full list of this week's winners and losers: CLICK HERE

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Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:20

Oakland's Edgerly breaks silence; denies interfering in gang sweep involving nephew

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

Embattled former Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly denied that she interfered with a police gang sweep involving her nephew and said that her dismissal by Mayor Ron Dellums was not fair and unwarranted.

In an exclusive interview on KTVU Channel 2's Randy Shandobil, Edgerly broke her two week-plus silence Monday, saying that reports of her interfering on behalf of a nephew during a June 7 gang sweep in West Oakland were just flatly inaccurate.

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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 13:50

Oakland's Dellums reaches his limit and fires Edgerly

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, apparently having reached his limit in his ongoing range war with embattled City Administrator Deborah Edgerly, fired the city executive this week.

In a publicly released letter sent to Edgerly on Tuesday, Dellums got straight to the point:

Deborah Edgerly, City Administrator

Ms. Edgerly,

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Fri, 06/27/2008 - 20:33

Dellums, under pressure, moves to place Edgerly on paid leave from Oakland

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

For embattled Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly, Mayor Ron Dellums' other shoe finally dropped late Friday.

The mayor placed the 56-year-old Edgerly on paid administrative leave and showed her the door according to Kelly Rayburn's story in the Oakland Tribune.

The decision resolved, at least temporarily, what was a growing crisis of confidence in Dellums' administration, the City Council and the overall city government.

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Thu, 06/26/2008 - 14:36

Oakland council demands and will get briefing on embattled Edgerly

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

After days and days of uncomfortable silence, Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente has demanded and will receive a closed-door briefing next week on the Deborah Edgerly crisis at City Hall.

On Tuesday, during a strange press conference where he refused to answer any questions, Mayor Ron Dellums announced that the Edgerly would be allowed to retire from service as Oakland's highest non-elected public official on July 31.

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Tue, 06/24/2008 - 19:55

Although many questions remain unanswered, Dellums reveals Edgerly's fate

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

One day later than billed Mayor Ron Dellums on Tuesday finally revealed the fate of embattled Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly .

She's gone. But Edgerly is not being fired or quitting. She'll be retiring.

During a strange and chaotic "press conference" at City Hall where neither Dellums nor Edgerly would answer questions from reporters, Dellum announced that Edgerly would retire from her $255,000 a year job as the city's highest non-elected official on July 31.

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Tue, 06/24/2008 - 13:41

Oakland's Edgerly apparently still on the job despite Dellums' ultimatum

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

As Kelly Rayburn reports today in the Oakland Tribune, Monday came and went with no further information about Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly's fate.

Following a June 7 incident where Edgerly allegedly interfered in a police gang sweep operation that involved her nephew, Edgerly's job as the city's highest non-elected official appeared to done.

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Mon, 06/23/2008 - 12:22

Oakland's Edgerly denies job as top city executive threatened

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

Oakland City Hall watchers are in full "wait and see" mode this morning wondering whether embattled City Administrator Deborah Edgerly will continue to have her job at the end of the day.

Following a June 7 incident where she allegedly interfered with Oakland Police during a gang sweep that involved her nephew, Mayor Ron Dellums supposedly gave Edgerly the options of resigning, retiring or being fired by today.

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Fri, 06/20/2008 - 17:49

Dellums delivers ultimatum to Oakland city executive

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

Mayor Ron Dellums has apparently shown Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly the door this week after she allegedly interfered in a police gang operation on behalf of her nephew, Chip Johnson reports in today's San Francisco Chronicle.

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