Perata filed a "statement of intention" to run for the California Board of Equalization in 2010,[REF] but instead decided to run for Mayor of Oakland after incumbent Ron Dellums declined to run for re-election [REF].
Perata was also the co-chair of a California campaign committee[REF] to pass the California Cancer Research Act, 2012's Proposition 29 a ballot measure that was defeated by California voters on June 5, 2012 [REF].