Former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has announced she is supporting a recall effort targeting her successor, Sheng Thao. Schaaf criticized Thao in an interview Friday with KQED, saying that over the past year she has come to believe that Thao “is not capable of growing into the job.

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is hammering a new talking point in her fight against the campaign to boot her from office: an alleged connection between the recall campaign and business interests who want to ship coal through Oakland.