Mayor Ron Dellums to Meet With A's Lew Wolff After Spring Training

I have it from several sources that Mayor Ron Dellums plans to meet with A's Owner Lew Wolff after Baseball Spring Training.  That's an expansion on the other story that the City was making moves to contact the A's and present a plan.  

What's good about this bit of news is the Mayor and not the Vice Mayor's doing the apparent heavy lifting. Nothing against Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente, but it's time Oakland sent a clear leadership message to sports business owners, and that means the Mayor.  Period.   

It also means we fall in and help him, and that organizations like the Chamber of Commerce avoid this knee-jerk tendency to form their own task force and try to get what they want, which is the ego-satisfaction of being involved at a major level.   What the Chamber has done is made it's own group in the past which has always made politics more complicated.

Please, not this time.  That's Joe Haraburda's set of orders I write: stay home and work with the Mayor's Task Force; don't avoid it.   We will be seeking your advice and input as it's only the right thing to do, but we're all on a timetable -- the A's timetable -- and we've got to work together.  


Ah.  This is what a sports commission's good for.