Posted on 11/17/2010 8:20:04 AM PST by SmithL
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums' wife, Cynthia, has been talking with city officials about the possibility that her husband will depart before his term ends Jan. 3, perhaps to take a lobbying job in Washington, D.C.
Adding fuel to the gossip fire: This week the mayor canceled his farewell State of the City address, which had been scheduled for today, and decided to post it on the city's website instead.
If Dellums were to step down, Mayor-elect Jean Quan would automatically replace him in her capacity as vice mayor on the City Council. Then she would be sworn in to her full four-year term as scheduled.
Dellums, who turns 75 next week, is under pressure to give the Internal Revenue Service a sizable check to clear up his $252,000 tax lien by the end of the year.
We're told Dellums has been exploring erasing the lien with an advance on speaking engagements as well as a possible signing bonus from a new lobbying job. He has also looked at how quickly he can access his city pension.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Another rich liberal dodging his taxes.
He’s a liberal Democrat. He dun need to pay no steenkin’ liens.
Only in American.....
Leni
When he was in Congress, he was so far left that they called him “red” Dellums. He’s known to be a friend of Commandante Fidel.
When he was in The House of Representatives I hated Dellums. He was (and I assume still is) a Grade A America Hating Socialist. I gotta tell you though his son, Erik Dellums is a damn fine actor. Probably a lib like his father but the guy can flat out act!
Doesn’t this idiot make almost $200k a year?
He should be able to negotiate a payment schedule.
March, 1991
On Feb. 5, Foley named five Democrats to the House Intelligence Committee, two of who, Ron Dellums of California and David Bonior of Michigan, are on the far-left wing of the Democratic Party.
It is hard to think of a more inappropriate choice for this assignment than Dellums. He is on record as saying, “We should totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country.”
In 1980, Shafik Handal, brother of the head of the communist party in El Salvador, came here with the assignment to organize support groups for the communist terrorists, the FMLN, in El Salvador. The Communist Party put him in touch with Rep. Dellums.
Handal’s report of his trip was captured in El Salvador. It said, “The offices of Cong. Dellums were turned into our offices. Everything was done there.” He set up the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES).
Dellums was so close to Maurice Bishop, the former communist ruler of Grenada, that he sent him, for his comments and approval, a report he had prepared for the House Armed Services Committee on the airfield the Soviets were building in Grenada.
In May 1990, Dellums signed a fund-raising letter for the radical Democratic Socialists of America in which he attacked “the senselessness involved in the tens of billions of dollars squandered each year on exotic weapons systems.”
Dellums will now have access to our most sensitive secrets, including proposed covert CIA operations. When Speaker Foley was interviewed on This Week With David Brinkley on March 10, no one even mentioned this outrage.
http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1991/03b.html
Maybe in 20 or so years, CA will run out of these 60’s leftovers whose name recognition gets them re-elected a dozen times but whose records of accomplishment are sub-zero at best. Maybe.
Our then-Representative (Liz Patterson) was in for a measly $5K and lost reelection over it.
Dellums was in it for $900K.
“Dellums was in it for $900K.”
And don’t forget Barbara “Bouncer” Boxer!
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Democrats get rewarded for their sedition and malfeasance.
People like us would get thrown in jail.
It's because the Democrats have made it a point to own the jail.
Don’t hold your breath. It’s not the fault of the creeps running for office. It’s the fault of the voters, and, from what I hear and see of the newer generations, it hasn’t gotten anywhere near bad enough to hope for a turnaround.
November 2010: Democrats sweep the state, top to bottom. Election posters don’t even state a candidate’s party affiliation anymore.
Like I said...
Is there any African-American politico who has paid his taxes?
“Don’t hold your breath. It’s not the fault of the creeps running for office. It’s the fault of the voters, and, from what I hear and see of the newer generations, it hasn’t gotten anywhere near bad enough to hope for a turnaround.”
If anything, it’s gotten worse, distinctly worse as far as being a guaranteed Dem enclave. I’ve lived in CA since 1971 and I’ll confess to not having cared much about politics. I began as a hippy, became indifferent thru the 80’s, then conservative somewhere around Y2K. When I first arrived in CA it was an absolute wonderland, having grown up in NJ. But it was justified, CA had the best roads & the best schools, a tech industry utterly on fire, and plenty of traditional heavy industry of every description. And for the most part, my recollection was that Orange County and San Diego and much of the agricultural central valley was solidly conservative. What I’m saying is there was real balance for the nutballism of SF & Berkeley. Indeed, CA was quite the conservative state in the 50’s & 60’s.
At this juncture, something like 53 of 54 of CAs’ electoral districts are gerrymandered Dem to sheer oblivion; never mind all the welfare folks and illegals here. It’s absolutely a lost cause and looking at the props that CA passed should confirm that. This state is populated by dedicated libs and people who simply cannot read well enough to decipher the doublespeak of the way these props are written. This last election, CA voted upon itself at least 3 forms of blatant economic suicide, completely apart from the Boxer & Brown elections.
This state needs to hit bottom, and I have no doubt whatsoever that it will.
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