Mindy Pechenuk

Security
Pechenuk's platform centers on a sharp increase in police staffing, from roughly 500 officers toward a target of 800, paired with a more aggressive approach to shutting down open-air drug markets; her site also expresses support for deploying the National Guard and aligns her homelessness and crime approach with federal initiatives pushed by the Trump administration. She opposes Oakland's civilian police commission and the MACRO alternative-response program, arguing both function as obstacles to conventional law enforcement rather than complements to it.

Economy
On the economy, she wants Oakland to court manufacturing and industrial employers, including by keeping the city's coal export terminal open and resisting restrictions on new data centers, arguing the city needs to "bring Oakland into the 21st Century." She opposes new revenue measures such as parcel taxes and real-estate transfer taxes, casting her fiscal approach as growth-first rather than tax-first, and specifically opposes a parcel-tax measure and a data-center moratorium championed by a sitting council member.

Infrastructure
She has proposed a hard 30-day deadline for the city to act on complete building-permit applications, arguing that "if the paperwork is complete, the city has one month" to approve it, as part of a broader push to speed up construction and cut red tape for developers and small businesses alike.

Education
On schools, Pechenuk points to Mississippi's literacy-based grade-promotion policy as a model, arguing Oakland should stop advancing students to the next grade before they can read at grade level.

Immigration
Pechenuk also opposes a state bill, AB 2624, that would expand protections for people who report immigration-related fraud, arguing it complicates enforcement, and generally aligns her positions on immigration-adjacent issues with the more restrictionist wing of national politics.

Governance
She has also spoken out against a "Strong Mayor" charter-reform effort pushed by the current administration, arguing it would concentrate too much power at City Hall, and frames her own candidacy as an outsider correction to what she calls status-quo leadership.