In 2005 the RPA supported transfer of the former Zeneca site at Campus Bay to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. In 2006 Gayle McLaughlin won the election for mayor as a Green Party member versus incumbent Democrat Irma Anderson by 189 votes out around 12,000 cast. Jim Jenkins lost his bid for the Richmond city council. Measure T, a ballot measure submitted to the voters that substantially increased business license fees for large corporations like Chevron Corporation owner of the Chevron Richmond Refinery passed. Jovanka Beckles ran for city council of Richmond and lost while Jeff Ritterman won his city council bid. Another ballot measure, Measure U, in favor of casinos, like the one proposed for the former Point Molate Naval Fuel Depot, was successfully defeated at the ballot box. In 2010 the RPA negotiated with Chevron to contribute millions of dollars for the city to reinvest in itself instead of facing Measure T which would have forced a change in the utility tax which would have made them potentially contribute more. In this same year Gayle McLaughlin won re-election as Richmond mayor. Jovanka Beckles in her second bid for Richmond city council won while Eduardo Martinez lost his second attempt at a spot on the Richmond city council. The RPA took a beating in this election as it was flooded by 1.2 million US dollars from Chevron and 2.7 million from the American Beverage Association against measure N a sugar tax and its candidates. In the 2012 election Marilyn Langlois ran for city council and lost as did Eduardo Martinez on his third bid. This while Dr. Jeff Ritterman's brainchild Measure N, a tax on sugary drinks, lost amid massive campaigning for the bottling industry to counter support for it. In 2014 Mike Parker ran for mayor but withdrew in favor of Tom Butt in order to not splinter the progressive vote in the moderate-progressive divide of the city's politics. Tom Butt, the RPA's candidate went on to face Nat Bates and won. Eduardo Martinez ran for city council yet again and won this year, while former mayor Gayle McLaughlin won her old council seat and Jovanka Beckles won re-election. In 2014 Chevron spent US$ 3 million on a slate of candidates for city council none of which beat the grassroots candidates of the RPA which some have said saved Richmond's fortunes although Tom Butt says it involved collaboration between many stakeholders and was not that simple. In 2016 Ben Choi attempted to gain a seat on the Richmond city council as did Melvin Willis and both won.