A favorite trope of the Left is to denounce greed. At least in others. But as the Clintons, Al Gore, and others have shown, denouncing the greed of the rich is no impediment to cashing in yourself after leaving office.For ex-Congressmen, it is usually a stint as a lobbyist that provides plenty of folding money. Ron Dellums, the former far left Congressman from Berkeley, became a lobbyist after he left office, for example.But Dellums is now the new mayor of Oakland. As a sort of arrival present, the Oakland City Council, which faces a budget deficit of millions of dollars, has just handed the mayor a whopping 59% pay increase over the money Jerry Brown earned as mayor. Matier and Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle report:Saying they didn't want to make a big deal out of a dollar here and a dollar there, Oakland City Council members voted unanimously to hike new Mayor Ron Dellums' pay by $68,000 -- bringing his annual salary to $183,395. The raise, approved Tuesday, is $20,000 more...(Read Full Post)