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Oakland Mayor's Race - Don Perata out of candidates forum Thursday

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Make it seven competitors in the Oakland Mayor's Race upcoming debate as Don Perata bows out of the Thursday, June 10th Oakland Mayoral Candidates Forum sponsored by 100 Black Men of The Bay Area.

But what's interesting behind the reason, according to a very good source, is that the Perata camp gave a weird reason for not wanting to participate in what they thought was going to be an Oakland Mayor Candidates Forum in September, even thought the source claims Perata was not asked officially to do so.

The Perata Camp said that as current Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums had not actually announced what he was going to do, run for another term as Oakland's Mayor, or not (even as some have told this blogger he was going to run again), Perata didn't think it was fair to participate in any forum. Seriously.

At the time, the source was surprised Perata was going to be in the 100 Black Men-sponsored forum. Perata is not going to be there as of this writing. That's a mistake.

Perata's starting a string of mistakes that stem from the 20th Century Old Media idea that everyone in Oakland's pay attention to what he does. Not true. It's a different media world, and by not participating in candidates' forums, Don Perata takes away yet another media content development opportunity for himself.

Not smart.

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