recall starts here –
http://www.petitiononline.com/510911/petition.html

Dellums, in my view, has this sentiment completely reversed. Inasmuch as I’ve seen no evidence to the contrary, it’s the law abiding and upstanding citizens that he views instrumentally: as tools to further the lives of those whom he values non-instrumentally–those who because of various ‘oppressions’ have ‘found themselves’ committing crimes against the law abiding. When has Dellums ever expressed such profound concern for those victimized by crime as he has for those incarcerated for committing it? Look at what he himself has done. Has he ever visited a crime victim? Does he walk the streets at night to show solidarity with those who don’t have armed guards and drivers? No. He’s put all of his efforts and moral authority (such as it is) into providing for criminals benefits (paying jobs) that others procure only at the cost of much sweat and effort. What other intepretation can one make of that? Is it any wonder that many (myself included) take themselves, by dint of upholding our end of the social compact and actually paying for all these services he so readily commits, to be just grist for his social engineering mill? Are we all paying the price of salving his guilt feelings for having left his beleagured inner city community behind for the hills–a place where he lives but can never be seen out on the streets?

Meanwhile, Ron Dellums is a sleep at the switch, as Lew Wolff, the Los Angeles carpetbagger owner of the Oakland A’s, is determined to tear apart a piece of the fabric of Oakland as he takes our team to Fremont and renames them the “Silicon Valley A’s @ Fremont.” or “The San Jose A’s. To this villain from Los Angeles, Oakland’s reach stops at the San Leandro border. The Oakland moniker is not even suited for Oakland’s own metro area. What a slap in the face, even as the A’s attempt to cash in on their Oakland roots as they market their “40th anniversary in Oakland.” This is ludicrous. Wolff wined and dined Dellums in order to grease his way out of Oakland. Dellums was seen sitting behind the A’s dugout with Wolff AFTER Wolff announced his intentions to abandon Oakland. Wolff told Dellums, “You have other priorities, don’t break your pick on this one.” The pacification of Dellums was done at the same time as Wolff was negotiating a new sweetheart lease at the Coliseum which would conceivably take him into the opening of CISCO Field. This is an outright betrayal of Oakland and the legacy and history which is intertwined between the city and the A’s.

Oakland sits here passively as the carpetbagger from Los Angeles co-opts our Mayor along with Councilmember Larry Reid. We haven’t heard a a peep from them as a 41 year old Oakland tradition is about to expire. The Oakland A’s have been a part of Oakland since 1968. The Oakland A’s have brought Oakland an incredible amount of positive attention over the years. The A’s are have won four World Series titles and have appeared in six World Series. Only the New York Yankees have won more. Yet no one seems to care that they’re leaving the city. What is going on Oakland?

Oakland will give up courts, jails, judges, a functional police force. Oakland will give up streetlights, parks, clean streets. Oakland will give up stores, cafes, restaurants and retail establishments of every kind. Basically Oakland will continue to give up every nice thing there is about living in a city and we will do it for folks who have broken our laws, robbed our neighbors, shot our friends and in some cases molested our children. Now, aren’t you glad you voted for Ron? Don’t get fooled again. Vote for Charlie Pine on June 3rd.

No need to apologize, although I’m happy to set you straight. It’s the Chronicle that’s really at fault here. The story they ran about the RFQ responses was misleading at best. The headline (“Wayans brothers drop Oakland Army Base plans”) was deceptive and the beginning of the story was just bizarre:

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums has released a list of developers interested in building on the former Oakland Army base – but noticeably absent are Hollywood’s Wayans brothers, who had wanted to build a movie studio and shopping center there.

Why are they noticeably absent? Why would anyone on earth expect them to respond to an RFQ after they had abandoned their exclusive negotiating agreement? The only reason to bring them up is because someone at the Chronicle thinks readers are interested in the Wayans Brothers. So irresponsible.

I was laughing at the Wayans Bros news myself. Uh, long over and they were never *really* interested in negotiating for anything other than a hand out, so why? Oh, because they’re the Wayans Bros? Hmm, isn’t that so last century? Where are they now? (broke perhaps?)

Dellums has never ceased to amaze me in terms of promises made. If I hear one more time, “We’re going to create a policy…” when said policy should already have been created, not to mention implemented! What a waste of his first year.

I was on two task forces and it was a farce. Just like his office is now.