Oakland mayor's husband and daughter marched with Occupy Oakland

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have empowered the Occupy Wall Street Obamavilles, but his counterpart in Oakland went much further.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

As Oakland Mayor Jean Quan struggled recently with how to handle the Occupy Oakland encampment, her husband and daughter became increasingly involved with the movement.

A group led by Quan's husband, Floyd Huen, worked closely with Occupy campers, and those efforts were stepped up after the first police raid of the encampment outside City Hall on Oct. 25. Huen's group was trying to persuade the campers to tone down the movement's more unruly elements.

But after an Occupy camper was slain near the camp on Nov. 10, Huen, 64, and daughter Lailan Huen, 29, began actively encouraging campers and leaders at the encampment to leave, even suggesting in e-mails that they could move to Snow Park where they could camp without city interference.

Even as Quan reassured businesses that she would protect them during a Nov. 2 general strike, her husband and daughter participated in a march that eventually shut down the Port of Oakland.

During the recent Oakland mayhem, Huen said she based some of her Occupy decisions on talks with her children.

Shameful.

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