Posted on 06/23/2010 1:09:47 PM PDT by SmithL
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums' 11th-hour news conference to unveil his plan to lay off cops to help eliminate the city's $30.5 million deficit was a study in dysfunctional family values.
"For weeks, we do all the heavy lifting to put together a budget - meeting with all sides and coming up with compromises without one word from him," City Councilwoman Pat Kernighan said. "Then he comes in the day before, takes 90 percent of what we recommended and holds a press conference."
Council President Jane Brunner - who has been doing most of the work on balancing the budget for the past two months - made it clear to reporters that she hadn't even seen the mayor's proposal until one hour before the cameras arrived.
Brunner also said she had concerns about the mayor's numbers.
Police Chief Anthony Batts, who stands to lose 53 officers and 21 cadets under Dellums' plan, wasn't even there.
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Having read ‘Dysfunctional’ and ‘Oakland’ in the same sentence, I thought for sure this would have something to do with the Raiders.
A city of welfare recipients run by left wing hacks, thugs and thieves. How could there POSSIBLY be any problems?
Heh.
No, the Raiders are just one more symptom.
“Having read ‘Dysfunctional’ and ‘Oakland’ in the same sentence, I thought for sure this would have something to do with the Raiders.”
Having read “Dysfunctional”, “Oakland”, and “Dellum” in the same sentence, I thought was unnecessary redundancy. If you add “Raiders” you’re just repeating yourself.
Dellum and Obama are cut from the same cloth. Lazy, leftist, incompetents. The only difference is that Dellum can’t read the teleprompter as well.
Even lefty Jerry Brown is making fun of Dellum. He claims that the mayor’s seat has been vacant since he left it.
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