Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf took in quite a haul at her inaugural gala the other night.

Attending the bash at the Fox Theater were rapper Too $hort and singer Michael Franti, plus local elected officials and business people, along with reps from her three biggest donors Salesforce, Kaiser Permanente and the San Francisco Foundation.

“One look at the crowd and you could see, that Oakland has arrived,” political consultant John Whitehurst said.

The take: $3.25 million for the Oakland Promise scholarship fund and Keep Oakland Housed.

Any way you count it, that’s a lot of there, there.

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