Posted on 11/06/2009 3:58:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Oakland Mayor Ronald V. Dellums owes the residents of this great city an explanation.
And if he can't provide one, he owes his resignation.
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He is a hometown hero entrusted with the highest public office Oakland can offer. His $239,000 tax bill is peanuts compared with the weight of his responsibility as Oakland mayor.
Anyone can make an honest mistake, and if that's all this is, then no harm, no foul.
But Oakland residents deserve to know why the mayor was unable to handle his legal obligation to pay income taxes, ..
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They are deserving of far more than a vague 16-word statement issued from behind the coattails of his press secretary.
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IRS tax records show Dellums and his wife, Cynthia, did not pay their full tax bill in 2005, 2006 or 2007, his first year as mayor.
It's not as if there weren't warning signs of Dellums' preference to live beyond his financial means. The mayor made no bones about requiring amenities when he came into office. He asked the Oakland City Council for a $60,000 raise and received it. He required a driver and more than the standard security detail the Oakland Police Department provides every mayor. ..
The debt owed to this city by Dellums is incalculable and there is nothing but pride - or arrogance - standing between him and a full public disclosure of the facts surrounding his tax problem.
Anything short of that constitutes unacceptable behavior by a public official and violates the public contract between an elected official and the constituency the office serves. I tried to reach the mayor for comment - but he declined to speak with me, his press secretary Paul Rose told me.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Red Ron is a Democrat. He doesn’t have to explain. Only conservatives have to explain.
Any questions?
Berkeley is North Bezerkistan, Oakland is South Bezerkistan.
He goes back to the days of Black Power. Barbara Lee was a protege.
The first time I ever heard of the clown was this, from Time 1974:
Ronald V. Dellums, 38. Running for Congress in 1970, Berkeley City Councilman Dellums won votes for his antiwar stand and picked up another bundle when Spiro Agnew called him a “radical extremist.” “If being an advocate of peace, justice and humanity toward all human beings is radical,” he responded, “then I am a radical.”
Isn’t it funny how these do-gooder “radicals” always seem to line their own pockets in the name of “peace, justice and humanity”?
you peasants shall not ask me jack sh*t!
He likes being one of the “little people”...you know, the ones who get checks FROM the government, not the ones who send checks TO the government. Old habits die hard.
To Democrats, taxes are only for the other guy.
Resignation? I thought he was pondering whether to run for Mayor again.
He’s a DEMOCRAT!! They ALL CHEAT and LIE!!
What’s a nice boy like you posting threads about Red Dullums when there is racin on Speed???
No Speed on Dish. :(
I’m too cheap to upgrade.
I downgraded after we finally got a cable modem hookup, didn’t need some other stuff on the dish so. and lost speed along the way.
ain’t that the way it goes for old rolling stones. ;-)
Does Red Ron have a condo in Puerto Rico or Maui?
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