[lbo-talk] Ron Dellums for Mayor? (of Oakland)

[Joseph Wanzala]

If Van Jones' pean to Ron Dellums (see sfgate link below) is any indication, 
Ron Dellums will get a free ride from progressives is on his path from 
Congressional afterlife as a DC lobbyist to Oakland City hall:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/12/ 
EDGQIF6HB81.DTL&hw=van+jones&sn=002&sc=999
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in fact:-

    It turns out that Dellums is a highly paid consultant to  pharmaceutical
giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). When POZ asked him how much BMS was
paying him-his fee is rumored to be in the mid-six figures-Dellums  angrily
refused to answer, and began yelling that the question was  "insulting."
Dellums has accompanied top BMS executives on junkets to South  Africa. And
a largely paper nonprofit Dellums chairs, the Constituency for  Africa, gave
BMS-which has made billions from AIDS drugs developed by  taxpayer-funded
research-an award for its "contributions to fighting AIDS."

from Doug Ireland: 
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/1128.html

see also:-

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2002-04-03/news/feature.html

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