Posted on 06/19/2006 3:39:25 PM PDT by SmithL
OAKLAND -- An ebullient Mayor-elect Ron Dellums today embraced voters' endorsement of his vision to make the city a model, saying he will soon set up citizen groups to help him deal with the city's public schools, crime, economic development and other issues when he takes office Jan. 1.
"It is a responsibility I accept with honor, humility and optimism," the progressive former congressman, 70, said at a news conference that was his first public appearance since the June 6 election. "We can solve the problems of Oakland. We can be a great city."
His chief opponent in the race -- City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente -- on Saturday congratulated Dellums, who won 50.18 percent of the vote. De La Fuente won the support of 32.99 percent of 83,675 total votes cast, followed by City Councilwoman Nancy Nadel and three other candidates.
The race took nearly two weeks to decide because thousands of ballots were not counted on Election Day and Dellums had remained just below the threshold needed to win without a November runoff. Dellums said despite the nail-biting count of absentee and provisional ballots, he had remained confident he would win outright.
"I was the calmest person in Oakland these last 10 days," Dellums said.
He will succeed two-term Mayor Jerry Brown, who is running for state Attorney General.
The former congressman, speaking at the downtown Oakland Marriott Hotel to a crowd that included supporters as well as reporters, said his first task will be to set up a transition team and put out a call to residents to fill vacancies on city boards and commissions and among city staff when appropriate.
In the coming weeks, he said, he would also guide the creation of task forces to address the city's key issues, including the environment,...
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Sorry, but that wasn't one of the choices. Oakland had to select between De La Fuente and Dellums, so any kind of greatness was precluded.
If he is a socialist, more likely than not he'll drag the city down lower, to SF levels.
Has the idiot not heard: There is NO there there?
"If he is a socialist"
Marxist.
Refresh me on some of this dimbulb's "accomplishments". I know he was in Congress. They must really set the bar low in some of those CA districts.
I have a friend who walked home in the middle of the night from an Oakland restaurant to his place in Berkeley. He lived to tell about it, but I still shudder.
We must develop instead a new world order in which the United Nations, regional organizations,constructive diplomacy and equitable development policies lead to a reduction of the economic, social, cultural and political tensions that foster these spasms of violence and human rights abuse.....
If the new world order is to move us past nationalism, then even the proprietor of the world's most powerful military force must be prepared to conform to a perhaps laboriously created international consensus......
Progressives have an opportunity to enter this debate and to convince our families, colleagues and neighbors that we need not fear and have much to gain by taking such a course.
Oakland sounds like an illegal immigrants paradise. Did I mention Ronnie was a big supporter of the Black Panthers in their heyday of murder and mayhem.
Same thing to me.
After 8 years of Dellums' misrule, Oakland's crime rate will rival Camden, New Jerseys. Dellums will be to Oakland what mugabe has been to Zimbabwe. Moreover, Dellums wants to be the "dear leader" of the People's Republic of Oakland, leading the city "forward" to it's glorious future. Some future.
I lived in the Oakland/Berkeley area as a teenager. Lots of pretty hairy experiences from those times.
Dellums is a Commie pig.
The socialist/communist/radical background of Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums, U.S. Congressional Representative for the East Bay for 27 years, announced Friday at Laney College that he will run for mayor of Oakland, California.
Dellums is best known for his attempts to collaborate with Cuba, the Sandinistas and communist Grenada, possibly passing on American classified intelligence materials to Castro. At one point, a Salvadoran operative working for Cuban intelligence actually set up shop in the congressional offices of Ron Dellums, with the conniving of the Congressman himself. In the Cold War, Dellums was on the side of the enemy. Dellums was a squeeze toy for John Kerry.
On February 17, 1968, Dellums delivered the keynote address at a birthday party for Black Panther Minister of Defense Huey Newton, who had been convicted of killing a policeman. The next year, 348 Panthers were arrested for such serious crimes as murder, armed robbery, rape, bank robbery, and burglary. Party leaders openly called for the assassination of President Richard Nixon, and the FBI determined the Panthers to be "the most notorious and dangerous of current militant groups." But the Panthers’ appalling record of violence did not cause Dellums to turn his back on them. During his 1970 campaign for Congress Dellums openly endorsed the Panthers.
In spite of his enthusiastic defense of the Panthers, Dellums was elected to Congress in 1970. In the primary, he upset 12-year veteran Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan, who himself had an impeccable left-wing voting record. When his primary victory was assured, he greeted his supporters with the customary communist clenched-fist salute. During his election campaign of 1970, Dellums held on to his regular supporters and also acquired new ones, including Communist Jessica Milford, Sargent Shriver of the Kennedy dynasty, and the AFL-CIO’s hatchet-crew, the Committee on Political Education (COPE).
The World Peace Council(WPC) sponsored a World Conference on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in Stockholm, Sweden. Dellums addressed the opening session. The World Peace Council, spawned by the Soviet Union in 1950, was an important communist front, identified by the CIA, the FBI, and the State Department as controlled by Moscow. As Edward O’Mally, head of the FBI’s Intelligence Division, reminded a congressional committee in 1982, the "World Peace Council is, of course, the largest and most active Soviet-front organization with affiliates in approximately 135 countries. It is one of the major Soviet instruments for political action and propaganda in the peace movement."
Dellums has been affiliated with the ultra-leftist Soledad Brothers Defense Committee; the ultra-leftist National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; the ultra-leftist Community for New Politics in Berkeley; the ultra-leftist National Peace Action Coalition. He endorsed the Hanoi-inspired People’s Peace Treaty. Dellums was a founding member, along with labor-agitator Cesar Chavez, of the Tom Hayden and "Hanoi Jane" Fonda Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED).
In August 1977 the moonbatesque publication Mother Jones reported that for "the first time in more than a century, a dues-paying socialist is also a member of the U.S. Congress. Congress member Ron Dellums, a California Democrat, has joined the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), the organization of socialists in the Democratic Party…"
On February 27, 1980, Dellums voted to give the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua $75 million in U.S. aid. As an expression of his adoration for the Sandinista regime, Dellums was a plaintiff in a lawsuit, filed by the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), to prohibit covert actions against the Sandinista communist regime.
During the invasion, U.S. troops discovered tons of Grenadan documents confirming the communist nature of the Bishop regime. Included was correspondence with Dellums’ office. In 1982, Dellums had traveled to Grenada to, he said, get "an overview of the military questions and concerns of the United States as well as an objective assessment of factual information regarding Grenada and the building of the new international airport."
A copy of the congressman’s report was found among the cache of documents found in Grenada, along with minutes of a New Jewel Movement Politburo meeting on December 15, 1982. At one point, the minutes assert: "Ron Dellums: His Assistant - Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought with her a report on the International Airport that was done by Ron Dellums. They have requested that we look at the document and suggest any changes we deem necessary - they will be willing to make the changes." In other words, Dellums agreed to let the communist government of Grenada edit his report before he submitted it to the committee chairman.
http://blogs.chronwatch.com/archives/2005/10/the_socialistco.asp
Been there once, in the mid 90's. Seemed like a bit of a pit to me.
I lived in Richmond quite recently -- another place where you don't want to be after dark. I was in a safer part of town, but still, you have to go out occasionally to get groceries :-)
Richmond? Really? I had no idea it was so bad over there.
Living in Berkeley may even have provided inspiration for my tagline. ;-)
Ah, Barbara Lee -- the one and only member of the U.S. Congress who refused to condemn the September 11 terrorist attack on America. Here is a snippet from the leftist Mother Jones magazine reporting that story with approval:
>> On September 15, the US Congress approved a resolution authorizing President Bush to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against anyone associated with the terrorist attacks of September 11. The measure passed 98-0 in the Senate and 420-1 in the House. The lone dissenting vote was a colonel's daughter and longtime maverick from California -- Democrat Barbara Lee.
I like your tagline and am at pains not to ask, 1 of what or 2 of what? That way I get to use my imagination more. Could be fists, knives, hypodermic needles, asp bites, cudgels, hollow-point bullets, RPGs, Israeli missiles, 500-pound bombs... Ahhh.
I have been to and thru Oakland many a time over the years, but recently made the mistake of staying there. I bid some contract work in Alameda, where we couldn't find rooms. So, I booked me and the crew into one of Oaklands finer hotels right off the 880 at Hergenberger. It was winter and daylight was short in supply. Let me say that I'll never do that again.
About 35 years ago,the oakland voters[Liberals] put a new twist on their election ballot..The idea was that EVERY empty room in Oakland[whether house or apartment]had to be given up to a homeless person...Luckily,the idea was shot down by REAL voters buuuuuuut,the idea could come back any day now!!!!!!!!
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