With No Primary Fight, Brown Launches ‘Reasonable Jerry’ Tour

No surprise: Jerry Brown is running for office again.  In Jerry’s words, “I’ve run for more offices than any other candidate that still is alive.”  This time, he is the lone Democrat candidate running for Governor in California.  Since his belated announcement last week, Jerry has done his best to sound reasonable as a candidate.  Surely, California voters should know it is only an act.

In running for those many offices, Brown has taken countless liberal positions.  As Governor, Brown empowered public employee unions, strongly opposed the death penalty and appointed judges who strongly opposed it.  He opposed Prop 13 before he was for it – but only after the voters passed it. When he ran for President, in 1980, he was for universal health care and said his economic agenda was based, in part, on Buddhist Economics – followers of which endeavor to measure “Gross National Happiness.”  In 1992, when he ran for the Presidency a third time, he touted “living wages,” fought free trade agreements and said he would consider Jesse Jackson as a running mate notwithstanding Jackson’s controversial if not anti-Semitic remarks.  Such is the life of a career liberal like Jerry Brown.

In 2009, while still in the race for Governor, liberal Gavin Newsom said of Jerry Brown’s candidacy: “We’re not content to relive history. We’re going to keep making it.”  To ensure that Brown’s latest history would not include a loss to Newsom, Brown resumed his liberal ways.

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Tags: california governments race, Gavin Newsom, George Runner, Jerry Brown, Voter ID initiative
Posted Mar 10th 2010 at 7:00 am in Featured Story, Politics, State Politics | 8665046 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2010/03/10/with-no-primary-fight-brown-launches-reasonable-jerry-tour/With+No+Primary+Fight%2C+Brown+Launches+%27Reasonable+Jerry%27+Tour2010-03-10+15%3A00%3A12Thomas+Del+Beccaro

The Fascist Green Police Super Bowl Ad Is Stuck In My Head

And that’s the point, I guess. Watch this ad for a “clean diesel” car by Audi, and good luck getting this slightly modified version of the Cheap Trick classic “Dream Police” out of your head. I couldn’t get it out with a lobotomy. It’s been playing off and on in my brain since it first aired during the Super Bowl.

But beyond the diddy, I also can’t get the vision of a fascist “green” future out of my head — even if it’s portrayed with a heavy dollop of of “Reno: 911“-style cop-show parody. Good comedy has to have a grain of truth in it to work, and this spot has plenty. It’s not just a peek at a ridiculous future, but a look at our “be green or else” present. An overreaction? Tell that to the chief of America’s Green Police, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who Tweeted:

“Ok .. That ‘green police’ Audi commercial hits home..”

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Tags: Al Gore, audi, big environment, California Air Resources Board, California Energy Commission
Posted Feb 10th 2010 at 6:59 am in Environment, Media Criticism | 72786285 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jlakely/2010/02/10/the-fascist-green-police-super-bowl-ad-is-stuck-in-my-head/The+Fascist+Green+Police+Super+Bowl+Ad+Is+Stuck+In+My+Head2010-02-10+14%3A59%3A41James+G.+Lakely

The Hypocrisy of Jerry Brown, California’s Top Cop

The Communications Director for California Attorney General Jerry Brown resigned last week after admitting he regularly taped telephone conversations with reporters without their permission.  Under California state law, the recording of private telephone conversations without consent is illegal.  Although the Attorney General’s Office worked to shut down the story by calling it an internal personnel matter, the potentially illegal behavior of a senior staff member to California’s top cop raises some serious questions.

Here’s one: How can one of the most powerful law enforcement officials in America not know his communications director routinely engaged in activities that may have been unlawful?

Or, how is it that only this senior member of the staff knew this was occurring as they currently claim?

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN video scandal, democratic nomination, Gavin Newsom, Hannah Giles
Posted Nov 12th 2009 at 1:03 pm in ACORN, Justice/Legal, News, Politics, State Politics | 2977436 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/rnehring/2009/11/12/the-hypocrisy-of-jerry-brown-californias-top-cop/The+Hypocrisy+of+Jerry+Brown%2C+California%E2%80%99s+Top+Cop2009-11-12+20%3A03%3A30Ron+Nehring