We were out in Sacramento this morning for a family lunch at Spataro, talking a bit of Bay Area Politics, when one of our party said
"Speaking of Ron Dellums, there he is."
And there he was, sitting at a long table with a group of well-dressed folk, one of whom we recognized as California Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass. The mayor's party was about twelve strong, and we couldn't hear a whit of what they were talking about, although we did have some fun guessing. What on earth would a NorCal mayor and an LA-based Speaker have to talk about? We have our guesses. We hope Ron had the cannelloni, though...it was really, really good.



I think that he's handsome (*insert eye-lash bat and girly giggle here*).
Yeah, he can wear a suit.
But Karen Bass was probably (politely) trying to explain that the elder-statesman shtick isn't flying and that he better get his act together or he'll find himself out of office after one term.
What a disappointment of mayor he's turned out to be.
If I were the mayor of Oakland, I would try to get as far away as possible too. I hear his next sighting is Tahoe, followed by Denver then on to Chicago.
Wasn't Newsom in Hawaii during the Cosco Busan disaster?
Maybe there's something going on in Oakland right now! (Well, something other than your generic street traffic mayhem or homicides.)
When I read this headline I thought the story would be that he was actually spotted in Oakland. The guy's ALWAYS out of town. He promised he'd only be a 9-5 mayor, and that's exactly what Oakland got.
he is everywhere but in Oakland