Oakland, California, Mayor Sheng Thao called on the FBI to tell the public she is “innocent” of wrongdoing after federal agents raided her home in June. Thao, who is facing a myriad of challenges ahead of the Nov.

Oakland, our challenges are great, but our people are greater,” Thao said in her annual State of the City address.

The news conference came a day after Thao launched her own campaign to fend off the effort to remove her from office.

Sheng Thao’s political life is on the Oakland ballot this November. She’s not going down without a fight. Voters will decide next month whether to recall the embattled mayor, a push bankrolled by hundreds of thousands of dollars from investment manager Philip Dreyfuss and endorsed by Oakland’s police union,

In her second — and potentially last — state of the city speech, Thao painted a picture of progress and asked Oaklanders to work with her to accomplish more.