Catherine Lew is Barbara Lee’s puppet master.
For decades, Lew and her firm The Lew Edwards Group have quietly engineered nearly $50 BILLION in new taxes across California, using a two-phase scam: First, they get cities to pay them with taxpayer money to run “educational” campaigns that scare residents into believing their fire stations, libraries, and schools will collapse without new taxes. Then they seamlessly transition into running the union-funded “Yes” campaigns that actually pass the measures.
Her firm’s own strategy memos openly advise threatening to close fire stations and slash library hours if voters don’t approve the tax. And when one of her clients got caught sending ILLEGAL campaign mailers with public funds, the state hit them with an FPPC violation that directly named Lew’s firm.
Lew has trained the very politicians who later hire her, creating a closed-loop machine that keeps extracting more money from working people while she pulls the strings behind the scenes.
Barbara Lee has been part of that machine for years.
This is the corrupt system running Oakland.