Oakland Mayor's spouse, daughter worked with Occupiers

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Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, November 20, 2011


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.



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