 Whether or not she becomes the
next mayor of Oakland, Audrey Rice Oliver has
already proclaimed herself the victor.
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In
October of 1991 her home was destroyed in the
Oakland Hills fire. She and her daughter lost
everything. “We had to rebuild and grow our
minds, not just from the outside, but from the
inside, too,” she says. Oliver plans to attract
medium to large size companies to help rebuild
Oakland. Oliver talks about her ideas for Oakland
in categories of short and long range goals. She
wants to clean up the streets by enforcing
something like Operation Clean Sweep, she says,
where volunteers and businesses perform a massive
makeover by washing windows, picking up trash,
and painting where necessary.
Effective
marketing of Oakland is a key concern for Oliver,
who in June signed on with the San Francisco
political strategy firm of Stanton, Hughes, and
Shafer to run her campaign. She says she would
like to see Oakland develop a self-image that is
positive and that sticks, like New York City's
`big apple' campaign.
Whether or not
she becomes the next mayor of Oakland, Audrey
Rice Oliver has already proclaimed herself the
victor. “No matter what the outcome, I win
because I made a commitment to public
service,” she said. 
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