This ‘article’ is about the new mayor of Oakland making a speech about how he plans to try to make Oakland a better place to live in and how he wants to make the crime rate drop.

Ron Dellums didn’t make any promises while he was speaking and he told it like it is. He didn’t try to say anything he couldn’t commit to and he still had the crowd at their full attention.

He plans to have more police out on the streets to keep the violence to a minimum and he wants to end poverty by providing more jobs and health care for everyone.

I think he is going to make something happen if not everything, because I know it is hard to keep promises and to commit to such and a great task. It will take time to bring some peace to Oakland and slow down the violence but hopefully one day it will happen.

I’m glad he was picked as mayor because he knows how to speak to the people, and not just say what people want to hear. And he lets people know that he can’t do everything by himself, and he is going to need help from the public. He spitting that politic pimp talk.
—- Jovan Parham

Today I read an ‘article’ about Ron Dellums. Ron Dellums is the Oakland Mayor. He made a big speech in the paramount theater in Oakland. What Ron Dellums talked about is that he wants more peace in Oakland because he used to be a regular Oakland kid like me, he knows the struggles that each teenager can go through everyday. Ron Dellums is a good leader because he cares about the future and he wants to improve the Oakland schools because he says that most of the violence that’s happening now starts in the public schools.

I agree with Ron Dellums because he knows what is like to be an Oakland teenager and having to walk through a lot of dangerous streets and gangs that surrounds us. We do need more peace in Oakland because people are getting shot just because someone didn’t like them or just to have fun.
—-Manuel Mendoza