Ron Dellums Living Large While Oakland Budget Bleeds

KTVU ^ | 6/15/08 | KTVU

[NormsRevenge]

Editor’s Note: Late last week, after the KTVU story was completed, a mayor’s aid called to say Dellums will partially reimburse Oakland taxpayers for his personal expenses at the two luxury hotels in Washington, D.C. The aide did not state when or how much Dellums would pay back.

[Cicero]

Five cents?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Deval (MA Gov) Wants His Own Jet… Paid for by Us

[toddlintown]

Power to the people! Now somebody get my Lexus.

[Trajan88]

This makes me wonder... here in north Texas (Uptown area of Dallas to be exact)... there's tons of high end 4 and 5 star hotels that have gone up (Ritz Carlton, W, etc.)... I bet there's quite a few high-roller public employees that put their big fat heads on these hotel's luxury 100s of thread-count Egyptian cotton pillows.

This Dellums turd is very much in the "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" method of governing.

[Cecily]

Marx should have said, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his position in the Marxist nomenklatura pecking order.” It’s the “communist” way!

[tflabo]

Rabid Dem voters get the govt. they deserve. Bloated, incompetent,expensive and
inefficient. Vote for change....as much as the govt. can leave in your pockets and not theirs!

[ElkGroveDan]

Dellums is as close to a Marxist as any elected official in America today.

I hope the rest of the little marxists enjoy this glimpse of how it's all supposed to work.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Holy Toledo! Dellums and staff spend many times more than Moonbeam and his staff’s expenses. Gee maybe just maybe Moonbeam can give us lessons on how to save taxpayer money.

[CarryingOn]

Californians are getting the government they deserve. Party on, who cares.

[Political Junkie Too]

So he's still living large like a Congressman?

-PJ

[bpjam]

He is a communist. Admittedly. And anybody is surprised that he also might be unethical? Come on, folks. Let’s not be children about this. Even in a hellhole like Oakland (and that is a very generous description), this should not be a shocker.

[NormsRevenge]

a few of the comments at the article site reflect the ,’oh darn, I should have voted for the other guy’.. duhhh.

sometimes, there are no good choices.. this is socialist California after all.

[Godwin1]

Racism!

[Steely Tom]

He need the bling so Okland get the respeck sho. Wor' up.

[GOP_Raider]

The KTVU Channel 2 probe also found Dellums has a staff almost twice as large as the previous mayor’s, now Attorney General Jerry Brown.

Where does KTVU get off trying to investigate Dim corruption?? It took them, what, half a frickin' century to expose this?!?!?!

[DryFly]

For all of his crazy ideas over the years, Jerry Brown does deserve credit for treating the public coffers as something other than his own private ATM machine.

[lowbridge]

many Oakland residents in an uproar.

You Oakland residents voted for him. You got what you expected. Now you're complaining?

[oust the louse]

many Oakland residents in an uproar.

Charles Barkley just made a comment that Poor people have been voting for Democrats for 100 years now and they’re still poor. This kind of helps explain why....

[DPMD]

Well, sort of. It’s more of the “marxism for thee but not for me” type of marxism. The guy’s rolling in dough, aside from what he steals in the form of salary and perks. Kind of hard to be a rich marxist.