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Wannabe Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown sounds like more of the same leftist lunacy

But WE knew that, now to convince the rest of California

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  July 11th, 2010 at 08:39 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Via NewsBusters with a h/t to Pat Dollard;

If former California Gov. Jerry Brown, now once again a candidate for governor of California really wants to be sort of a unifier as he says, he might want to watch how he refers to some of his constituents.

On MSNBC’s July 9 “Hardball,” Brown was interviewed by host Chris Matthews and was asked how he could make all the unions in California work together in a political way. (h/t @HayleyMcConnell)

“How do you deal with the kick-butt unions out there?” Matthews said. “They’re really tough. You have the correction officers, you got the police, you got the teachers, the nurses. These are tough, strong well-funded units that are politically cohesive. They took down Gov. [Arnold] Schwarzenegger when he tried to take them down. How do you make them work? How do you get them to serve the public and make reasonable compensation?”

What more damage does Jerry think he can do this time as opposed to last time? Well, he also in the Hardball clip mentioned “seizing the assets of California”, but I’m sure he didn’t mean that like it sounded.

Did he?

Note to Meg; don’t sound anything remotely like this guy and you’ll take it in a landslide.

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  • Beasley Beesmeal

    I think I’ll play that one again

    • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway

      It just didn’t fit very well…

  • qixlqatl

    cave in to whatever they want. =/

    • proudgop

      Didn’t the state of CA have to seize Oakland CA because of his disaster as myor

      • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

        Jerry as usual left a lot of messes for his successors to clean up (which they haven’t done such a good job of, but that’s a different matter) and his mayoral record certainly open to criticism.

        However, the seizure you’re thinking about was the school district – and this cannot be held against Jerry as the mayor has no power over the school board.

        Incidently, while the district adminstration needed major cleaning up (and the bloated administration was shrunk quite a bit, which was a positive outcome), overall the state takeover was “bait and switch”: the state’s stated reason for taking over was because the district was in serious deficit and the state needed to restore the district finances to a healthy state, but instead the state used the district as a guinea pig for various experiments, and when the state returned power back to the school board after about five years, the state had left the district with a much larger debt than when the state took over in the first place.

  • IJB

    This is just one reason among many.