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</div><div>Legendary anti-war activist, former Oakland mayor and longtime Democratic congressmember Ron Dellums of Oakland, California, died on Monday at the age of 82. A self-described socialist and radical, Dellums served in the House for 27 years, leading the congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa. His activism landed him on President Richard Nixon’s enemies list. Ron Dellums opposed bloated military spending throughout his career, instead pushing for increased investment in housing, healthcare and education. We remember Ron Dellums by airing part of a 2015 Democracy Now! interview with the famed congressmember.</div><div>
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</div><div>Ronald Vernie Dellums (November 24, 1935 – July 30, 2018) was an American politician who served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Oakland</a>'s forty-eighth (and third <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">African-American</a>) mayor. From 1971 to 1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_9th_congressional_district" title="California's 9th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Northern California's 9th Congressional District</a>, after which he worked as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbyist" class="mw-redirect" title="Lobbyist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">lobbyist</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Washington D.C.</a></div>Dellums was born into a family of labor organizers, and enlisted in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Marine Corps</a> before serving on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,California" title="Berkeley, California" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Berkeley, California</a>, City Council. Dellums was the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">African American</a> elected to Congress from Northern California and the first openly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">socialist</a> successful non-incumbent Congressional candidate since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">World War II</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-dsa-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a> His politics earned him a place on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List" title="Nixon's Enemies List" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">President Nixon's enemies list</a>.During his career in Congress, he fought the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper" title="LGM-118 Peacekeeper" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MX Missile</a> project and opposed expansion of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit" class="mw-redirect" title="B-2 Spirit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B-2 Spirit stealth bomber</a> program. When President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> vetoed Dellums' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_Act" title="Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act</a> of 1986, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99th_United_States_Congress" title="99th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic-controlled</a> House and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99th_United_States_Congress" title="99th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican-controlled</a> Senate overrode Reagan's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veto" title="Veto" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">veto</a>, the first override of a presidential foreign policy veto in the 20th century.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-ebony-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>
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</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Early_years_and_family_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early years and family life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Political career</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Berkeley_City_Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Berkeley City Council</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#U.S.Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2U.S. Congress</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Vietnam_war_crimes_hearings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.1Vietnam war crimes hearings</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Anti-apartheid_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.2Anti-apartheid campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Cold_War_conflicts_in_southern_Africa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.3Cold War conflicts in southern Africa</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Military_budgets_and_arms_control" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.4Military budgets and arms control</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Opposition_to_the_B-2_Stealth_Bomber" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.4.1Opposition to the B-2 Stealth Bomber</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Dellums_v.Bush(1990)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.5Dellums v. Bush (1990)</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Integration_of_gays_and_lesbians_in_the_military" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.6Integration of gays and lesbians in the military</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#U.S.House_Committee_positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.7U.S. House Committee positions</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Dellums'last_Congressional_election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.8Dellums' last Congressional election</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Congressional_tribute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.9Congressional tribute</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Voting_record" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.10Voting record</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Dismissal_of_drug_use_allegations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2.11Dismissal of drug use allegations</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Presidential_nominations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3Presidential nominations</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Lobbyist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.4Lobbyist</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Mayor_of_Oakland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5Mayor of Oakland</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#2006_Oakland_mayoral_election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5.12006 Oakland mayoral election</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Transition_and_citizen_task_forces" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5.2Transition and citizen task forces</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Public_safety_initiatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5.3Public safety initiatives</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Education_Initiatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5.4Education Initiatives</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Promoting_Oakland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5.5Promoting Oakland</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Criticism_and_recall_efforts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5.6Criticism and recall efforts</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Death" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Death</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Partisan_affiliations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Partisan affiliations</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#Autobiography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Autobiography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-31" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early years and family life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years and family life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; 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<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CLDellumsStatue.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 11 15%22 width=%2215%22 height=%2211%22%3E %3Cg id=%22magnify-clip%22 fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%23000%22%3E %3Cpath id=%22bigbox%22 d=%22M1.509 1.865h10.99v7.919h-10.99z%22/%3E %3Cpath id=%22smallbox%22 d=%22M-1.499 6.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22/%3E %3C/g%3E %3C/svg%3E"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div>A statue of Dellums' uncle, labor organizer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.L.Dellums" title="C. L. Dellums" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">C. L. Dellums</a> at the Oakland <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak" title="Amtrak" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Amtrak</a> station.</div></div></div>Dellums was born in Oakland, California, to Verney and Willa (Terry) Dellums. His father was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longshoreman" class="mw-redirect" title="Longshoreman" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">longshoreman</a>. His uncle, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.L.Dellums" title="C. L. Dellums" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">C. L. Dellums</a>, was one of the organizers and leaders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters" title="Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters</a>. He has a younger sister Theresa. His mother Willa died on August 17, 2008, at the age of 89.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a>Dellums attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Technical_High_School" title="Oakland Technical High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oakland Technical High School</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClymonds_High_School" title="McClymonds High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McClymonds High School</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-pww2-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> He served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Marine Corps</a> from 1954 to 1956. Dellums later received his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate%27s_degree" class="mw-redirect" title="Associate's degree" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">A.A. degree</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laney_College" title="Laney College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oakland City College</a> in 1958, his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B.A.</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_State_University" title="San Francisco State University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Francisco State University</a>in 1960, and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.S.W." class="mw-redirect" title="M.S.W." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">M.S.W.</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of California, Berkeley</a> in 1962.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-sfgate1-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> He became a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychiatric" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">psychiatric</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_worker" class="mw-redirect" title="Social worker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">social worker</a> and political activist in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">African-American</a> community beginning in the 1960s.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-sfgate1-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> He also taught at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_State_University" title="San Francisco State University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Francisco State University</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of California, Berkeley</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-aareg-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a>Dellums was a member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Phi_Alpha" title="Alpha Phi Alpha" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alpha Phi Alpha</a> fraternity.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-cornell-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> He was also a member of the fraternity's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Policy_Council" title="World Policy Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World Policy Council</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">think tank</a> whose purpose is to expand the fraternity's involvement in politics, and social and current policy to encompass international concerns.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-wpc-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a>Dellums was married three times. He married his second wife, attorney Leola "Roscoe" Higgs, in 1961. The two divorced in 1998.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-nndb-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> He married his third wife, Cynthia Lewis, in 2000.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-nytobit-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>Dellums has eight children and stepchildren. One son, Michael, was convicted of a drug-related homicide in 1979, and remains in prison, being repeatedly denied parole due to bad behavior.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> Dellums has four other children: professional actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Dellums" title="Erik Dellums" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Erik</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Dellums" title="Piper Dellums" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Piper</a>, Brandon and Pam; five grandchildren: Danielle Henderson, Jacob Holmes, Sydney Ross, Dylan Ross, and Olivia Dellums; and two great-grandchildren: Jared Henderson and Charli Henderson.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-nytobit-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Political career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Dellums career in politics spanned over forty years. He held positions on the Berkeley City Council, in the United States House of Representatives, and was the mayor of Oakland from 2007 to 2011.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-nytobit-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Berkeley City Council[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Berkeley City Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Dellums was elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,California" title="Berkeley, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Berkeley</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="City Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">City Council</a>, after prompting from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maudelle_Shirek" title="Maudelle Shirek" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maudelle Shirek</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> and served from 1967 to 1970.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-congbio-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">U.S. Congress[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: U.S. Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ron_Dellums.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 11 15%22 width=%2215%22 height=%2211%22%3E %3Cg id=%22magnify-clip%22 fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%23000%22%3E %3Cpath id=%22bigbox%22 d=%22M1.509 1.865h10.99v7.919h-10.99z%22/%3E %3Cpath id=%22smallbox%22 d=%22M-1.499 6.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22/%3E %3C/g%3E %3C/svg%3E"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div>Official Congressional portrait of Dellums.</div></div></div>Dellums was elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a> in 1970 after being recruited by anti-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vietnam War</a> activists to run against the incumbent, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Cohelan" title="Jeffery Cohelan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeffery Cohelan</a>, a white <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_liberalism" class="mw-redirect" title="American liberalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">liberal</a> close to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_labor" class="mw-redirect" title="Organized labor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">organized labor</a> who had not opposed the war early enough to win reelection in the district. Dellums defeated Cohelan in the Democratic primary and won the general election, serving without interruption for 27 years.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-OU-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a>In 1972, Dellums was reelected to Congress, 60 to 38 percent over his Republican opponent, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D.Hannaford" title="Peter D. Hannaford" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peter D. Hannaford</a>, an advisor to then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>His politics earned him a place on the so-called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List" title="Nixon's Enemies List" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nixon's Enemies List</a>, where his notation stated Dellums "had extensive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" title="Ted Kennedy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">EMK</a>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_V.Tunney" title="John V. Tunney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tunney</a> support in his election bid."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-wustl-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-WaPo1-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Vietnam war crimes hearings[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Vietnam war crimes hearings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>In January 1971, just weeks into his first term, Dellums set up an exhibit of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Vietnam</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime" title="War crime" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">war crimes</a> in an annex to his Congressional office, coordinated with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Commission_of_Inquiry" title="Citizens Commission of Inquiry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Citizens Commission of Inquiry</a> (CCI).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-uhl-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[19]</a> The exhibit featured four large posters depicting atrocities committed by American soldiers, embellished with red paint.The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="My Lai massacre" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">My Lai massacre</a> was followed shortly thereafter by a series of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_hearings" class="mw-redirect" title="Congressional hearings" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">hearings</a> on war crimes in Vietnam, which began April 25, 1971. Dellums had called for formal investigations into the allegations, but Congress chose not to endorse the proceedings. As such, the hearings were ad hoc and only informational in nature. As a condition of room use, press and camera presence were not permitted; however, the proceedings were transcribed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> A small number of other anti-Vietnam War congressional representatives also took part in the hearings.<h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Anti-apartheid campaign[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Anti-apartheid campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dellums-CBC.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Dellums-CBC.jpg/220px-Dellums-CBC.jpg" width="220" height="299" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Dellums-CBC.jpg/330px-Dellums-CBC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Dellums-CBC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="339" data-file-height="461" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dellums-CBC.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 11 15%22 width=%2215%22 height=%2211%22%3E %3Cg id=%22magnify-clip%22 fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%23000%22%3E %3Cpath id=%22bigbox%22 d=%22M1.509 1.865h10.99v7.919h-10.99z%22/%3E %3Cpath id=%22smallbox%22 d=%22M-1.499 6.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22/%3E %3C/g%3E %3C/svg%3E"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div>Dellums in the 1970s</div></div></div>In 1972, Dellums began his campaign to end the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Africa_in_the_apartheid_era" class="mw-redirect" title="History of South Africa in the apartheid era" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">apartheid</a> policies of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">South Africa</a>. Fourteen years later, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Dellums' anti-apartheid legislation, calling for a trade restriction against South Africa and immediate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divestment" title="Divestment" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">divestment</a> by American corporations. The bill, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_Act" title="Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act</a> of 1986, had broad bipartisan support. It called for sanctions against South Africa and stated preconditions for lifting the sanctions, including the release of all political prisoners. President Reagan called for a policy of "constructive engagement" and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veto" title="Veto" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">vetoed</a> the bill; however, his veto was overridden. It was the first override in the 20th century of a presidential foreign policy veto.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-ebony-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>Dellums' fight against apartheid in South Africa was the subject of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Channel" title="Disney Channel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Disney Channel</a> made-for-TV film, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Friendship(2000)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Color of Friendship (2000)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Color of Friendship</a>, released in 2000. The role of Congressman Dellums was played in the film by actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lumbly" title="Carl Lumbly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carl Lumbly</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-starpulse-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Cold War conflicts in southern Africa[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Cold War conflicts in southern Africa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>As part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Cold War</a> struggle for influence in southern Africa, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States</a> joined with the apartheid government of South Africa in support of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNITA" title="UNITA" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">UNITA</a>, led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Savimbi" title="Jonas Savimbi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jonas Savimbi</a>, against the ultimately victorious <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola" title="Angola" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Angolan</a> forces of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLA" title="MPLA" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">MPLA</a> supported by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Soviet Union</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Cuba</a>. Dellums was criticized for his support of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Fidel Castro</a>'s involvement with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLA" title="MPLA" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">MPLA</a> in Angola and was called "the prototype of the Castroite congressman" by the conservative press.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-NR1-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> He also introduced legislation (which was unsuccessful) in September 1987 to prohibit economic and military assistance to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire" title="Zaire" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Zaire</a>, citing poor human rights, corruption, and collaboration with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">South Africa</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Military budgets and arms control[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Military budgets and arms control" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>Throughout his career Dellums led campaigns against an array of military projects, arguing that the funds would be better spent on peaceful purposes, especially in American cities. Programs he opposed included the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_II" title="Pershing II" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pershing II</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="MX missile" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MX missiles</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit" class="mw-redirect" title="B-2 Spirit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B-2 bomber</a> (popularly known as the "stealth bomber").<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-SF4-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> Because of his commitment to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure" title="Base Realignment and Closure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">closing of unneeded military bases</a>, Dellums did not oppose the closing of the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Alameda" title="Naval Air Station Alameda" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Naval Air Station Alameda</a> in his own district.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-EBE-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><h5 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Opposition to the B-2 Stealth Bomber[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Opposition to the B-2 Stealth Bomber" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h5>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit" class="mw-redirect" title="B-2 Spirit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B-2 Stealth Bomber</a> is a long-range <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing" title="Strategic bombing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">strategic bomber</a>, that features <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_technology" title="Stealth technology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">stealth technology</a> that makes it far less visible to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar" title="Radar" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">radar</a>. The B-2 was a major technological advance; however, it was designed during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cold War</a>for military scenarios that some argued were less relevant following the collapse of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Soviet Union</a>. Its total program cost was estimated in 1997 at over US$2.2 billion per airplane.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-FAS-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a>Although Dellums opposed the B-2 project from the start, Congress approved initial funding for production of 135 bombers in 1987. However, with the winding down of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Cold War</a>, total B-2 production was reduced to 21 aircraft in the early 1990s. But in 1997, seven former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Secretaries of Defense</a> signed a letter urging Congress to buy more B-2s, citing the difficulty of assembling a similar engineering team in the future should the B-2 project be terminated.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-opensecret-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> Dellums, citing five independent studies consistent with his position, offered an amendment to that year's defense authorization bill to cap production of the bombers with the existing 21 aircraft. The amendment was narrowly defeated;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-Amendment-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a> nonetheless, Congress never approved funding for additional B-2 bombers.<h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Dellums v. Bush (1990)[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Dellums v. Bush (1990)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>In 1990, Dellums and 44<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[29]</a> of his congressional colleagues sued then-president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">President George H. W. Bush</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States District Court" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">D.C. Federal District Court</a> in 1990, in the case <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dellums_v.Bush" title="Dellums v. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Dellums v. Bush</a>, 752 F. Supp. 1141 (1990) attempting to halt a preemptive military buildup in the Middle East in response to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait" title="Invasion of Kuwait" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Iraq's invasion</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Kuwait</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-DVB-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> The plaintiff members of Congress asserted that military action without a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war" title="Declaration of war" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">declaration of war</a> would be unlawful under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 11 of the United States Constitution</a>. Dellums v. Bush is notable in that it is one of only a few cases in which the Federal Courts have considered whether the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Clause" title="War Powers Clause" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">War Powers Clause</a> of the U.S. Constitution is justiciable in the courts. The Court in Dellums v. Bush indicated that, in that instance, it was, but because Congress had not yet acted as a majority, the lawsuit was premature.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-DVB-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Integration of gays and lesbians in the military[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Integration of gays and lesbians in the military" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>In 1993, Dellums was Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Though he argued in favor of integration, Dellums was the sole sponsor of H.R. 2401, introduced on June 14, 1993,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a> adding language to the Defense Authorization Act of 1994 to ensure continued support for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_cohesion" title="Unit cohesion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">unit cohesion</a> in the military. Although the bill contained that language, Dellums pointed out that he personally found the language unacceptable, stating in the Congressional Record on August 4, 1993: "The bill also contains at least one policy that, while unacceptable to this Member in substantive terms, is not as retrograde as it might have been: It supports the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the issue of allowing gay and lesbian service members to serve their country." Remaining in the bill was Title V Section G "[e]xpresses as congressional policy the prohibition against homosexual conduct or activity in the armed forces. Requires separation from the armed forces for such conduct or activity. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the standards for military appointments and enlistments reflect such policy."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a> Dellums' "yes" vote on the bill with the unit cohesion support language was the first time in his 22-year congressional tenure that he voted in favor of any defense spending bill, previously opposing them on economic principles.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-CON8493-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a> However, Dellums gave several economic reasons in the Congressional Record for his "yes" vote, on H.R. 2401, including that "It cuts ballistic missile defense to $3 billion—less than one-half the level planned by the Bush administration ..." and: "it devotes a record $11.2 billion to environmental cleanup and improvement, and does so in a way that will stimulate the development of new technologies and new markets for American firms".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-CON8493-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">U.S. House Committee positions[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: U.S. House Committee positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>Dellums served as chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_the_District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on the District of Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Committee on the District of Columbia</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Armed_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Armed Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Armed Services Committee</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Dellums also served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_International_Relations" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on International Relations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Foreign Affairs Committee</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Post_Office_and_Civil_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Post Office and Civil Service Committee</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence</a>, and the Select Committee to Investigate the Intelligence Community.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-LOC1-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a>Dellums co-founded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus" title="Congressional Black Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Black Caucus</a> in 1971.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-Utex-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Dellums' last Congressional election[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Dellums' last Congressional election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 172px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rondellums105th.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 11 15%22 width=%2215%22 height=%2211%22%3E %3Cg id=%22magnify-clip%22 fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%23000%22%3E %3Cpath id=%22bigbox%22 d=%22M1.509 1.865h10.99v7.919h-10.99z%22/%3E %3Cpath id=%22smallbox%22 d=%22M-1.499 6.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22/%3E %3C/g%3E %3C/svg%3E"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div>Dellums' official portrait in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103rd_United_States_Congress" title="103rd United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">103rd Congress</a>, 1993.</div></div></div>Dellums was reelected 11 times from this Oakland-based district, which changed numbers twice during his tenure–from the 7th (1971–75) to the 8th (1975–93) to the 9th (1993–98). He only dropped below 57 percent of the vote twice, in 1980 and 1982. In his last House election race, in 1996, Dellums bested his opponent, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> Deborah Wright, by a 77%–18% margin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-rand-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a>In 1997, Dellums announced that he was retiring from Congress in the middle of his term, forcing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Special election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">special election</a> for the balance of his term — which created a series of five special elections in 12 months as various East Bay politicians ran for different political offices.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-SF4-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> For more detailed information, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_election_musical_chairs" title="Special election musical chairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Special election musical chairs</a>.Dellums' successor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee" title="Barbara Lee" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barbara Lee</a>, won the 2000 election by an even larger, 85%–9% margin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-evote-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Congressional tribute[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Congressional tribute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>Upon his resignation, several members of Congress, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nancy Pelosi</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-house1-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Harman" title="Jane Harman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jane Harman</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-house2-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Coyne" class="mw-redirect" title="William Coyne" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Coyne</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Rahall" title="Nick Rahall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nick Rahall</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Skelton" title="Ike Skelton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ike Skelton</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Millender-McDonald" title="Juanita Millender-McDonald" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Juanita Millender-McDonald</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom DeLay</a>gave speeches on the floor of the House in honor of Dellums. Millender-McDonald described Dellums as a "distinguished, principled [and] educated man." Her tribute went on:<blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congressman Ron Dellums is revered on both sides of this aisle because of his integrity and his commitment to progressive ideas. He was always on the cutting edge of the issues. California will miss him in the ninth district, but the State has been enriched by Ron Dellums. While he towers above most of us physically, this attribute is matched by his intellect, faith in the process and optimism for peaceful resolution of conflict.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-LOC2-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></blockquote>Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_K.Davis" title="Danny K. Davis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Danny Davis</a> of Illinois described Dellums:<blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A creative, piercing, probing, incisive, thought-provoking, inspiring, charismatic, careful, considerate and deliberative mind. The mind to stand up when others sit down. The mind to act when others refuse to act. The mind to stand even when you stand alone, battered, bruised and scorned, but still standing. Standing on principle, standing tall and standing for the people.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-LOC3-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></blockquote>House Majority Leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom DeLay</a> described Dellums as "...one of the most giving, open and stalwart, a real stalwart man when he was Chairman"<blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are losing one of its finest Members, a Member that I have great respect for, because he always did his homework, was so articulate and eloquent on this floor.He always got my attention when he stood up and took the microphone. He would stop every Member in their tracks to hear what he had to say, and there are very few Members that have served in this body that can claim the respect that both sides of the aisle had for the gentleman from California. And the incredible reputation that the gentleman from California has brought to this House; he has elevated this House. He has elevated the distinction of this House by serving here, and this House will greatly miss him when he leaves.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-LOC4-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></blockquote><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Voting record[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Voting record" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>Dellums' voting records in Congress were "almost without exception straight As" from groups such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sierra Club</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Organization_for_Women" title="National Organization for Women" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Organization for Women</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL-CIO" class="mw-redirect" title="AFL-CIO" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">AFL-CIO</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-EBE-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[25]</a> He received 100% on consumer group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Citizen" title="Public Citizen" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Public Citizen</a>'s scorecard.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-gsenet-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[43]</a> In contrast, he received an "F" from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumbersUSA" title="NumbersUSA" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">NumbersUSA</a>, a group dedicated to limiting immigration.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Dismissal of drug use allegations[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Dismissal of drug use allegations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>An eight-month investigation vindicated Dellums of allegations that he had used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine" title="Cocaine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cocaine</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">marijuana</a>, finding there was no basis for the allegations. The investigation of Dellums and two other congressmen, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Texas</a>Democrat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilson(Texas_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Wilson (Texas politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charlie Wilson</a> and California <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater,Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Barry Goldwater, Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barry Goldwater, Jr.</a>, began in 1983, based on a complaint from a House doorkeeper,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-WaPo1-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> who pleaded guilty to drug charges on Capitol Hill himself in March 1983.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Presidential nominations[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Presidential nominations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 1976, Dellums was nominated for president by the National Black Political Assembly but refused, stating "It is not my moment; it’s not my time."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a> That year, he received 20 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention for the Vice-Presidency.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-WaltonSpence-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a>Four years later, he was again nominated as the presidential candidate, this time for the Independent Freedom Party, but refused the nomination because the IFP had not yet created an effective political structure.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a> In that year’s Democratic National Convention, Dellums received three delegate votes for the Presidential nomination.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-WaltonSpence-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Lobbyist</h3>Dellums worked as a legislative lobbyist, which drew criticism described in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Express" title="East Bay Express" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">East Bay Express</a>, a local newspaper.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-EBE-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a> Shortly after leaving office, Dellums began consulting for an international health-care company, Healthcare Management International which invests in health insurance programs in developing countries.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-EASJ-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a>Dellums worked in Washington, D.C., as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbyist" class="mw-redirect" title="Lobbyist" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">lobbyist</a> for clients such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" title="East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">East Bay</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peralta_Community_College_District" title="Peralta Community College District" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Peralta Community College District</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Transit" title="AC Transit" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">AC Transit</a>, the public transit district charged with offering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_transit" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass transit" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">mass transit</a> throughout the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" title="East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">East Bay</a>. Dellums' firm lobbied for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="Rolls-Royce plc" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Rolls Royce</a>, a company that manufactures aircraft engines. He also worked on behalf of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_International_Airport" title="San Francisco International Airport" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">San Francisco International Airport</a> during its attempts to build additional runway capacity, which has been vigorously opposed by environmental groups. His company was engaged in community relations work for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Berkeley_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</a> which generates and handles radioactive waste, and has long had a contentious relationship with its residential neighbors and the Berkeley city council. In addition he lobbied for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol-Myers_Squibb" title="Bristol-Myers Squibb" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Bristol-Myers Squibb</a>, a multinational pharmaceutical corporation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a>In 2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder" title="Bill Browder" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Bill Browder</a> testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that representatives of Vladimir Putin had hired "Howard Schweitzer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozen_O%E2%80%99Connor" class="mw-redirect" title="Cozen O’Connor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Cozen O’Connor</a> Public Strategies and former Congressman Ronald Dellums to lobby members of Congress on Capitol Hill to repeal the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act" title="Magnitsky Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Magnitsky Act</a> and to remove Sergei’s name from the Global Magnitsky bill." The bill is named for the Russian lawyer who was murdered in prison for pursuing the corruption of Putin's allies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[52]</a> Browder also worked with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Accountability_Global_Initiative" title="Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative</a> to oppose sanctions on Russia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-bn-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a>Dellums lobbied for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Haitian</a> government in 2001–2002<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-sfgate3-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a> and worked to support <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide" title="Jean-Bertrand Aristide" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Jean-Bertrand </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide" title="Jean-Bertrand Aristide" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Aristide</a>, the first democratically elected, former President of Haiti who was deposed in a 2004 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">coup</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a>When running for mayor of Oakland, Dellums listed his most recent profession as "retired Congressman" in election filing forms.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-sfgate4-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a> When assistant City Clerk Marjo Keller informed the Dellums campaign that this description was unacceptable, the campaign elected to leave the occupation field blank.A former East Bay Express columnist once wrote a column titled "Dellums for Dollars" criticizing Dellums' lobbying.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-EBE-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a> Speaking in defense of Dellums, Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson said that, if asked, Dellums would likely say "just because I'm advocating for a company that may be paying me consulting fees, I'm not selling out my beliefs."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-EBE-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Mayor of Oakland[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Mayor of Oakland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2006 Oakland mayoral election[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 2006 Oakland mayoral election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>After Oakland Council President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_De_La_Fuente" title="Ignacio De La Fuente" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ignacio De La Fuente</a> and District 3 City Councilmember <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Nadel" title="Nancy Nadel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nancy Nadel</a> declared their mayoral candidacies, Dellums was recruited to run for Mayor of Oakland. An informal committee, "Draft Dellums," collected 8,000 signatures and presented them to the former Congressman at a public meeting at Laney College. Crowds of Oaklanders chanted "Run, Ron, Run".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a>In October 2005, reportedly after weeks of deliberation and speculation, Dellums announced that he would run for mayor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,California" title="Oakland, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oakland</a>. The incumbent mayor, former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="California Attorney General" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California Attorney General</a> and current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Governor" class="mw-redirect" title="California Governor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California Governor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown" title="Jerry Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerry Brown</a>, was prohibited by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_limits" class="mw-redirect" title="Term limits" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">term limits</a> from running again.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a>On June 16, 2006, after a careful ballot count, and a dispute over whether votes for unqualified write-in candidates such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson" title="Homer Simpson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Homer Simpson</a> counted towards the total, Dellums was unofficially declared the winner in the Oakland mayoral race. Dellums garnered a 50.18 percent majority to win the election. This was 155 votes more than needed to avoid a runoff. Dellums received 41,992 votes, while his nearest challengers received 27,607 votes, and 10,928 votes respectively.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-sfgate2-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Transition and citizen task forces[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Transition and citizen task forces" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>Mayor-Elect Dellums' transition to office involved 800 Oaklanders who joined 41 task forces to make recommendations on issues ranging from public safety to education and affordable housing.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a> Many of these recommendations helped to shape the policy agenda of the Dellums administration. The task forces recommended a land use policy which would emphasize zoning for job-creating business. This policy was adopted in 2007, and the city is being zoned. The task forces recommended a stronger policy on the hiring of local residents, and the City Council appointed a group to pursue this change. The task forces recommended a focus on the green economy, and the Mayor, along with a variety of community organizations created the Green Jobs Corps, an office of sustainability and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Green_Corridor" title="East Bay Green Corridor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">East Bay Green Corridor</a>. Mayor Dellums reportec that approximately two-thirds of the recommendations had been implemented as of the end of 2009.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a> The Task Forces and the Inauguration itself, which included hundreds of the city's least affluent residents, were considered examples of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots_democracy" title="Grassroots democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">grassroots democracy</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Public safety initiatives[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Public safety initiatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>Crime rates were high when Dellums took office in January 2007 and at his first State of the City Address in January 2008, Dellums called for hiring more police officers. Dellums promised that by year's end, the police department would be fully staffed at 803 officers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a> On November 14, 2008, 38 Oakland police officers were added to the force after graduating the 165th academy, bringing the department's force to 837 officers, the most in OPD history.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a>In addition, to follow through on his calls for hiring more officers, Dellums offered Measure NN on the November 2008 ballot, a voter initiative parcel tax to hire 70 additional police officers at a hiring and training cost of $250,000 each. Though 55 percent of Oakland voters supported Measure NN, this failed to meet California's "two thirds" constitutional requirement for the enactment of a new tax.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a>Dellums's administration negotiated the passage of a new police contract which was especially noteworthy, as it broke the Oakland Police Officers Association’s opposition to the civilianization of certain OPD positions which were previously staffed by "sworn," uniformed police officers, with concomitant payrolls and police academy training costs. OPD then hired "non-sworn" personnel to work some of its desk jobs and administrative jobs, freeing up academy uniformed officers for street patrol and investigative work.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-daily_planet_2-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a>On Saturday, March 21, 2009, during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Oakland_police_shootings" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 Oakland police shootings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2009 Oakland police shootings</a> incident, the Oakland Police Department lost three sergeants and one officer. One of the officers left instructions in his emergency packet that if he were killed in the line of duty that Dellums not be permitted to speak at his funeral. Two of the officers' families requested the same, and when Dellums attended the March 28 public memorial service at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Arena" title="Oracle Arena" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oracle Arena</a>he honored the requests.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-nongrata-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a>In his State of the City address in 2008 Dellums promised to reduce the crime rate by 10% during 2009; the crime rate actually went down by 13%.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a>In 2009 Dellums hired the highly regarded Anthony Batts, formerly the Long Beach police chief. Batts had a record of reducing both crime and officer-involved shootings in that Southern California city.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Education Initiatives[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Education Initiatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>Noting that reducing teacher turn-over and improving the engagement of teachers with the families of their students would require increasing the number of teachers who came from the local community, Dellums initiated a program to create more teachers who were diverse local residents. He held teacher recruitment summits in City Hall, helped the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teach_Tomorrow_in_Oakland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Teach Tomorrow in Oakland (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Teach Tomorrow in Oakland</a> program to obtain $2.7 million in federal funding, and spoke to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Conference_of_Mayors" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Conference of Mayors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Conference of Mayors</a> about the national potential of such programs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a> The Community Task Forces remained active in these efforts.In 2009 Dellums launched an anti-drop-out initiative which included sponsoring back to school rallies at City Hall and participating with the school district in truancy reduction efforts. He accepted an invitation from the national organization, America's Promise, to join their efforts at drop-out prevention. As part of this effort, he started Oakland's Promise, recruited several dozen community-based organizations to participate, held a Summit with 350 participants, and adopted an Action Plan to cut Oakland's drop-out rate in half.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Promoting Oakland[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Promoting Oakland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>As Mayor, Dellums proposed the idea of Oakland as a "Model City." He argued that Oakland is "big enough to be significant and small enough to get your arms around," and that the federal government needs a city like Oakland on which to try out new urban policy inventions. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a>Since 2008, Dellums has campaigned to bring millions in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act</a> federal stimulus funding to Oakland, using both his extensive Washington D.C. contacts and the idea of the Model City. By the end of 2009, his efforts had yielded US$65 million in stimulus funding for Oakland, including the largest police grant of any city in the country, and the second largest amount in competitive funding after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chicago</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Criticism and recall efforts[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Criticism and recall efforts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>After his election as mayor of Oakland, Dellums came under criticism for a wide range of issues, including a lack of transparency in government,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a> ineffectual governance,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[78]</a> and alleged extended absence from his duties at City Hall.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-79" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[79]</a> He was criticized for refusing to disavow a staff-generated letter sent in his name in July 2007 to a Federal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Bankruptcy Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bankruptcy Court</a> in support of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Black_Muslim_Bakery" title="Your Black Muslim Bakery" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Your Black Muslim Bakery</a>, whose owners were suspects in the 2007 murder of reporter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauncey_Bailey" title="Chauncey Bailey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chauncey Bailey</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-80" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[80]</a> In 2009, Dellums and his wife were cited with failure to pay over $239,000 in federal income taxes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a>In 2007, Oakland reporter Elise Ackerman launched an unsuccessful campaign to recall Dellums and released an open letter addressed to Dellums.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a> When addressing a town hall-style meeting in 2007, Dellums declared: "I'm giving it everything that I have. If that's not enough, that's cool. Recall me and let me get on with my private life."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[83]</a>Dellums later announced he would not seek a second term as mayor of Oakland in the 2010 election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-84" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[84]</a> He was succeeded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Quan" title="Jean Quan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jean Quan</a>.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Death[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Death" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>On July 30, 2018, Dellums died after a period of illness.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[86]</a> He was 82.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Partisan affiliations[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Partisan affiliations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Though he ran as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Democrat</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucus" title="Caucus" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">caucused</a> as a Democrat in Congress, Dellums described himself as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Socialist</a>. He was the first self-described socialist in Congress since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_L.Berger" title="Victor L. Berger" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Victor L. Berger</a>. In the 1970s, Dellums was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialist_Organizing_Committee" title="Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee</a> (DSOC), an offshoot of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America" title="Socialist Party of America" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Socialist Party of America</a>. He later became vice-chair of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America" title="Democratic Socialists of America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic Socialists of America</a> (DSA),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-nndb-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> which was formed by a merger between the DSOC and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Movement" title="New American Movement" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">New American Movement</a>, and which works within and outside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic Party</a>.While running for mayor of Oakland, Dellums was officially <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">registered</a> as a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-congbio-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-SSCA-87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[87]</a>On October 1, 2007, Dellums endorsed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary at a press conference held at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laney_College" title="Laney College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Laney College</a> in Oakland. He was named national chair of Clinton's Urban Policy Committee.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-88" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[88]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-laneytower-89" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[89]</a>Dellums was a member of the ReFormers Caucus of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_One" title="Issue One" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Issue One</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-90" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[90]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Autobiography[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Autobiography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In 2000, Dellums published an autobiography, cowritten with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H.Lee_Halterman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="H. Lee Halterman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">H. Lee Halterman</a>, entitled Lying Down with the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums#cite_note-91" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[91]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">See also[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Dellums&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portal plainlist tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><ul style="list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; line-height: 13.09px; display: table; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 175px; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; display: table-row;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/28px-P_vip.svg.png" width="28" height="28" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/41px-P_vip.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/55px-P_vip.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1911" data-file-height="1944" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Biography" title="Portal:Biography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Biography portal</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; display: table-row;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Emblem_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps.svg/28px-Emblem_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps.svg.png" width="28" height="28" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Emblem_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps.svg/42px-Emblem_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Emblem_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps.svg/56px-Emblem_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="720" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:United_States_Marine_Corps" title="Portal:United States Marine Corps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Marine Corps portal</a></li></ul></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229.5%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%2300528c%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_United_States_Representatives" title="List of African-American United States Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">List of African-American United States Representatives</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Friendship" title="The Color of Friendship" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Color of Friendship</a></li></ul><div></div>