TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Ron Dellums, Wife, Owe $239K in Back Taxes. “Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and his wife failed to pay more than $239,000 in taxes over a three-year period, public records show. Dellums, 73, and his wife, Cynthia, 55, who acts as his unpaid adviser, are named in a lien issued by the Internal Revenue Service and filed with the Alameda County recorder’s office Oct. 14. The lien says the couple failed to pay $124,198 in federal income taxes in 2005, $66,554 in 2006 and $48,246 in 2007, the year Dellums took office as mayor.” I’m guessing he didn’t wait to acquire that habit until after he left Congress, but I could be wrong. . . .