California: Ron Dellums

Everywhere in California crime is going down.  Since 2004, Oakland has seen a 40% increase in crime.  That is what happens when you have folks like Jerry Brown, then Ron Dellums as Mayor.  Criminal know that every day these radicals protect criminals and harm the cops, making their job harder.

Brown and Delllums oppose the death penalty, believe police profile--and if their is a shooting, the cops caused it.  These men do not uphold their oaths, their words or the Constitution--so why should criminals be afraid.

It is amazing that crime is up only 40%, guess the criminals take vacations or think it is like shooting ducks at a Fair.

Time for real leadership in Oakland, before the cops quit like they do in Mexico.

OAKLAND -- The normally press-shy Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums stepped out in front of the Bay Area media this week and conceded that the investigation into the assassination of journalist Chauncey Bailey by his city's police department may well be compromised.

Dellums, a beloved long time former member of Congress from the East Bay, signaled his concern by asking the state Attorney General's office to initiate its own investigation into the August 2007 homicide of the editor of the Oakland Post newspaper.

OAKLAND - Developer Phil Tagami sent PolitickerCA.com an e-mail over the weekend wanting revise, extend and clarify his comments made during an interview with KTVU Friday morning.

During that interview the TV station reported that he wanted to require Mayor Ron Dellums to sign a time sheet each day to account for his hours on the job as the city's chief executive. Tagami, a major player in Oakland and East Bay politics, actually wants his idea to go further than that.

Here is his full statement:

OAKLAND - Mayor Ron Dellums signaled this week that there still may be some hope left in the effort to prevent the Oakland Athletics from leaving the East Bay city.

Dellums told Kelly Rayburn of the Oakland Tribune that not all hope is lost in preventing the famous American League team from shuffling down Interstate 880 to the city of Fremont, some 25 miles to the south.