 the economy, and public health. Dan Linheim, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former Oakland City manager, says even within Oakland City Hall, Tao's power is limited. It's really using the bully pulpit and bringing people together that is within her realm of authority. To the extent that that's not happening, then that's where she holds some culpability. Some of Tao's biggest supporters, like the city's unions, have largely declined to comment on the FBI raid.