Oakland mayor backs Clinton

Source: AP

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the endorsement Monday of Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, a widely admired black leader who had anguished over whether to back Sen. Barack Obama, her leading Democratic presidential rival.

The endorsement came as Clinton and Dellums toured a vocational classroom at Laney College in Oakland, where Clinton announced that Dellums will head her campaign's Urban Policy Committee.

The Clinton campaign spent months assiduously courting Dellums, a former U.S. Marine who served 27 years in Congress and once headed the powerful House Armed Services Committee. Dellums told associates he was excited by the energy of Obama's campaign, but he withheld his endorsement longer than many other black leaders.

But Clinton's willingness to embrace his recommendations on how to improve urban America, and her credentials on foreign and military affairs, won Dellums over.


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Ugg.

I always though Delllums was smart. Shows what I know.

At 1st I thought this article was about Jerry Brown. That would have made my tummy hurt really bad.

He's not the Jerry of old...

to shoot rubber bullets at the protesters that tried to stop the weapons going to Iraq, what has he done?

Guess he's no longer Governor Moonbeam, huh?

His mayoral stint was mostly about downtown development and gentrification and more cops on the streets to play the phony "war on drugs".

Oh, and he finally got married...

And the Blues Scene in OakTown went down the toilet. Don't know if that was Jerry's fault or not...just a fact.

Now he's the Attorney General...

Damn corporate crypto-Repuke.








( Surely, I don't need this? :sarcasm: Well, for the impaired.)