Bay Area election results always remind me how much I am a fish out of water in this ridiculous part of the state.  In the last hour, former Congressman Ron Dellums won the Oakland mayor’s race outright.  Dellums got 50.2 percent of the vote to City Council President Ignacio DeLaFuente’s 33 percent.  I was fooled by the number of DeLaFuente signs in my neighborhood, but the election results remind me once again how @%&$ liberal this city/region is.  One friend said that her mother-in-law and friends were supporting Dellums because they thought his connections to the federal government would bring more money to Oakland.  Like money is the problem here.  But for liberals, it always boils down to more money.  They never seem to question how the money is actually spent. 

For example, my fellow Oakland voters once again raised my property taxes.  They passed Measure A, a bond for the Peralta Community College District, by 74.6% to 25.4%.  This bond will raise taxes by an average of $19.08 per $100,000 of assessed property value.

They also passed Measure B, a bond measure to help the Oakland Unified School District repair and modernize K-12 schools.  The voters approved this measure, which will raise taxes by an average of $35-48 per $100,000 of assessed property value, by a margin of 77.4% to 22.6%.

Finally, while Prop. 81 and 82 lost at the statewide level, voters in my county passed both measures.  If Alameda County voters had their way, Rob Reiner’s initiative would have passed 54.1%-45.9% and library bond would have passed 60.1%-39.9%. 

Election Day always reminds me why I have to make long-distance calls to have any sensible political discussion.  Around here, I limit my conversations to movies and baseball scores.  No, make that just movies.  I’m a Dodger fan and the Giants fans hate the Dodgers almost more than they hate Republicans.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.