[Translate] [Aimee Allison - OaklandSeen] Mayor Dellums is finally using his city-chartered right to break a council tie by casting a vote for his appointee Michael Lighty to the Port Commission. The Mayor, who recently brokered a deal with port truckers and the state over tighter emissions regulations, is finally playing his hand at strong mayor. The Port Commission is one of the most powerful groups in city politics, and plays a key role in approving development project like the BART extension and housing, environmental fights as...
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[Translate] I have it from a very good source that Oakland Athletics Owner and Managing Partner Lew Wolff called Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums today to request a meeting to “explore options to keep the A’s in Oakland”. That’s great news and it comes on the heels of Monday’s report that Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig formed a committee to determine why a baseball stadium deal was not struck in Oakland, and Selig did so with wording that could have been read as a forecast of a move to take the...
[Translate] Paul Cobb is a long-time Oakland, California writer, activist, community organizer and now publisher of the Oakand Post. I met Paul at his office in Downtown Oakland to talk about a wide range of subjects, but the two I was most interested in talking about were who killed Chauncey Bailey and what Paul thought about the current Mayor of Oakland, Ron Dellums. Bailey was an Oakland journalist who was supposedly murdered by people associated with Your Black Muslim Bakery (YBMB) on August 2, 2007. ...
[Translate] Say, at our blog Oakland Focus , I wrote a post on how I was not supporting the California state proposition 1A calling for High Speed Rail because the route did not come through Oakland as I worked to have done when I represented then-Mayor Elihu Harris? Well, I waa able to partcipate in a debate on the matter at The Commonwealth Club’s SF Debate program Tuesday night in San Francisco, and where the prop started out with more yes votes than no votes. But after my insistance that it was not the...
[Translate] I will be a guest and part of a panel on the matter of Deborah Edgerly, Mayor Dellums, and the “state” of The City of Oakland, Thursday Morning June 25th on KQED’s “Forum,” 88.5 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a call-in show. I don’t — yet — know who the other panelists will be. ...
[Translate] Ok, how does one explain an unprecedented KTVU video report on Mayor Ron Dellums spending and “high life” habits as leader of our City? Hey, Jerry Brown’s not cheap either, but he never got that kind of coverage at all. Someone’s out to get Dellums, and what’s blocking his ability to recover his image is the fact that he does not believe in working with image-makers, the press, or PR people. That’s a fact, folks. Dellums’ staff has asked him to “get help” in this...
[Translate] The Journal Of Blacks In Higher Education Endorses Obama For President and in so doing Theodore Cross, representing The Journal, wrote an article that calls into question Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s genuine commitment to African Americans. If you read it, it’s damning of Clinton, for example.. In her campaign to lock up black support, there are no qualms about playing the race card. Senator Clinton scored with black voters when she declared in a June debate at Howard University that the country would...
[Translate] Mayor Ron Dellums made the massive error of backing Senator Hillary Clinton in the Presidential race, a sure sign that Barack Obama will win the nomination. Of course, this didn’t come as just a simple endorsement — it came as yet another Clinton deal. In this case, Hillary placed Mayor Ron Dellums in some role in her campaign. How many times she’s done this in some form makes one dizzy. But what’s really wild is that Dellums would back someone who’s flipped-flopped on so many issues...
