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

Jerry Brown Proves He Has Nothing Relevant To Say

In the category of least surprising, and therefore most anti-climatic, decisions of all time, Jerry Brown announced that he is running for Governor of California. He did so through an Internet video. Certainly I realize how fashionable the Internet is for candidates – but Brown’s choice of venue to announce his campaign was probably less hip than hiding – much like his virtual absence from the campaign trail the last few months.

Quite frankly, the former media-hound Brown has been hiding because he has nothing relevant to say. Indeed, the most important issues of the day all run counter to Jerry Brown’s current policies. Let me count the ways . . .

1. The Budget/Taxes.  In this perennial saga, California has yet another $20 billion+ budget deficit. The Democrats and their Union patrons want more spending and higher tax rates. The Republicans, including their statewide candidates and Brown’s Republican opponents, want less spending and lower tax rates. The California voters, according to the Field Poll (never known to lean to the Right), want lower spending not higher taxes. What’s the current version of Jerry Brown to say under those circumstances? Other than saying he will leave it up to the voters to raise taxes (the so-called leader is asking to be led), he has remarkably little to say – and that is one reason he avoids the press and limelight so assiduously – including campaign announcements devoid of those annoying press questions like – would you veto a Democrat sponsored tax increase bill?

2. Jobs. Nevada is the Nation’s #1 business development State. California is either last or second to last when it comes to being employer friendly because of high tax rates and the nation’s most onerous regulatory burden. See the correlation anyone? California, like the nation, faces a simple choice: government jobs or private sector jobs. Government jobs cost money California does not have. Private sector jobs require tax relief and lower regulations. Brown can’t advocate more spending very well and he can’t seriously claim he will go against the unions and the Democrats in the legislature when it comes to taxes and regulations. So what’s the current version of Jerry Brown to say under those circumstances? Remarkably little.

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Tags: Central Valley, global warming, Government spending, high taxes, Jerry Brown
Posted Mar 3rd 2010 at 5:36 am in Environment, Featured Story, News, Politics, State Politics, Uncategorized | 8330660 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2010/03/03/jerry-brown-proves-he-has-nothing-relevant-to-say/Jerry+Brown+Proves+He+Has+Nothing+Relevant+To+Say2010-03-03+13%3A36%3A59Thomas+Del+Beccaro

What Happened to That ACORN Investigation Jerry Brown Promised?

California Attorney General Jerry Brown seems to be getting a lot of reminders from his gubernatorial challengers Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman about his failed governorship of the state from 1975-1983 when Californian’s endured high unemployment, home foreclosures, large scale labor strikes and fuel shortages at the gas station. Recognizing the failed policies of then Governor Brown, California voters revolted and passed Proposition 13 which is a landmark initiative that limited politician’s ability to arbitrarily raise taxes on California residents.

Over a week ago, Attorney General Jerry Brown got yet another reminder, this time coming from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The report “Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies” focuses public attention on AG Brown’s failed investigation of ACORN. While some of Brown’s gubernatorial challengers talk of the need for a California Governor to have a spine of steel, AG Brown has instead crumpled like an aluminum can cowardly hiding behind state bureaucrats and a wall of state agencies.

On October 1, 2009, Jerry Brown publicly announced that an investigation had been opened concerning undercover videos that were obtained by citizen journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles who videotaped ACORN employees at two California offices. ACORN employees were filmed providing advice regarding tax evasion, prostitution and human smuggling of underage girls. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was informed by AG Brown in a letter that he had “opened an investigation of both ACORN and the circumstances under which ACORN employees were videotaped.” Since that announcement, AG Brown has found himself at the center of a controversy surrounding the mismanagement of the investigation as well as a potential scandal due to a double standard involving one of his own state employees secretly recording conversations with reporters.

Shortly after ACORN had been alerted to the immanent investigation as a result of AG Brown’s public announcement, ACORN employees at the San Diego, CA office were caught engaging in a massive document dump on October 9, 2009. Those records were retrieved from an unsecured shared public dumpster where they had been thrown revealing sensitive personal, financial and banking information for both clients and employees in addition to revelations about the political inner workings of ACORN’s relationship with major U.S. banks and labor unions.

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Posted Mar 1st 2010 at 5:27 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Politics, State Politics | 8130688 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/droach/2010/03/01/what-happened-to-that-acorn-investigation-jerry-brown-promised/What+Happened+to+That+ACORN+Investigation+Jerry+Brown+Promised%3F+2010-03-01+13%3A27%3A41Derrick+Roach

California Democrats Ignore Brown Win: Vote For Bankruptcy

Reagan famously said that Republicans believe everyday is the 4^th of July and the Democrats believe everyday is April 15^th.  An oversimplification to be sure, but that sentiment was not far from the minds of the Massachusetts voters.  Already laboring under a bad state imposed health care system, in spectacular fashion, they rejected ObamaCare and elected Scott Brown to a “people’s seat.”

In California, that lesson apparently went unnoticed for California Democrats.   Less than 48 hours after the dust settled from the Brown triumph, California Democrats voted for a State imposed “universal” health care plan.  In other words, a state run health care system that would bar private insurance.

Keep in mind that California is already amidst a chronic and prolonged budget crisis brought on by runaway spending and exorbitant taxing.   Perennially listed among the worst states in our Union to do business, California features 10%+ income taxes and the highest regulatory burden around.  So imposing are the costs to business in California, despite its ports and natural resources, Nevada and its desert is #1 in the Country in new business development.

As Congressman Tom McClintock famously says, only government policy could convince people and business to relocate from lush California to the barren deserts of Nevada.  The practical result of those anti-job polices is that California now has a revenue problem.  Just 3 years ago revenues were in the $125 billion dollar range.  Now they are in the $85+ billion dollar range.  In other words, government has created a revenue problem by killing off jobs and, without those jobs, there are less taxpayers, less income tax and less sales tax.

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Posted Jan 22nd 2010 at 8:21 am in Healthcare, Politics, State Politics | 63846181 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2010/01/22/california-democrats-ignore-brown-win-vote-for-bankruptcy/California+Democrats+Ignore+Brown+Win%3A+Vote+For+Bankruptcy2010-01-22+16%3A21%3A04Thomas+Del+Beccaro

ACORN in California Splits From Bertha Lewis

The California chapter of ACORN has split from the group and changed its name.

Thousands of Californians who live in or close to poverty in the state have worked hard for decades to score victories that level the playing field. They’ve passed laws that increase affordable housing and raise the minimum wage, so they can provide for their families. They’ve also spent their personal time, which is in chronically short supply, pushing for better teachers and textbooks so the kids in their neighborhoods can have better opportunities. On these and other issues the odds have been against them, but these Californians leveraged their significant numbers with coordinated grassroots organizing to achieve victory.

Until now, they carried out this work as a chapter of the national organization ACORN. Until now, governance and financial management resided at the national level. In recent months it has become increasingly clear to the leadership, staff and members in California that the serious challenges ACORN is facing are jeopardizing the important work we are doing here in California.

The new entity will be called Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE). It will, on paper at least, be entirely separate now from ACORN. The relationship will be what Wade Rathke characterized the relationship between ACORN and ACORN Housing. ACORN is its own entity and ACCE is its own entity and the two are fighting for common goals.

It’s important to note that most, if not all, of the staff and board of ACORN in California will be kept on with the new company. In fact, at the bottom of the press release the contact person is Amy Schur. Schur, according to a source, was privvy to the knowledge that Dale Rathke had been involved in embezzlement from ACORN and kept that knowledge from the board.

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Posted Jan 14th 2010 at 6:29 am in ACORN, News, Politics, State Politics | 5949845 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvolpe/2010/01/14/acorn-in-california-splits/ACORN+in+California+Splits+From+Bertha+Lewis2010-01-14+14%3A29%3A19Michael+Volpe

ACORN Document Dump: Citibank Jeopardizes Customers for ACORN

What does the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai and ACORN have in common?  Both of them have some bankers on Wall Street worried.  When brokers and traders returned to work after the Thanksgiving Holiday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went on a wild rollercoaster ride dropping as much as 233 points during the trading session due to an announcement that Dubai would be rescheduling the repayment of $3.5 billion in bonds.  This unexpected announcement was not what Wall Street wanted to hear on Black Friday when retail sales were already down by 8% compared to the prior year and Cyber Monday sales were less than robust with individual online purchases being 2% less than they were last year.  All of this at a time when brokers, traders and economists across the country are watching to see if cash strapped consumers are going to bailout retailers from what is shaping up to be a dismal retail Christmas season.

It is understandable why Wall Street would be concerned about Dubai.  Why would they be concerned about ACORN?  On October 24, 2009, Biggovernment.com revealed that the San Diego office of ACORN dumped thousands of documents into a dumpster in advance of an investigation into the organizations activities by California Attorney General Jerry Brown.  I retrieved the documents from a shared public dumpster located behind the local ACORN office.  The documents that were retrieved filled the back of my Suburban.  Much of what was retrieved was truly trash, items such as banana peels, coffee grounds and marketing materials. After sorting through the documents, though, the 20,000 documents that were retained included sensitive personal information, financial records and documents outlining the internal and political workings of ACORN.  One of the documents obtained by Biggovernment.com shows that ACORN had business relationships with 28 major financial institutions for the purpose of assisting homeowners whose mortgages were in foreclosure.

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Posted Dec 10th 2009 at 10:27 am in ACORN, Justice/Legal, News | 44150162 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/droach/2009/12/10/acorn-document-dump-citibank-jeopardizes-customers-for-acorn/ACORN+Document+Dump%3A+Citibank+Jeopardizes+Customers+for+ACORN2009-12-10+17%3A27%3A46Derrick+Roach

ACORN Document Dump: Trashed Documents Are Relevant to Investigation

Have you heard the one about the pimp, prostitute, politician and the community organizer?  Well, thanks to San Diego private investigator Derrick Roach, Californians are not laughing at what is turning into a political nightmare for California Attorney General Jerry Brown and ACORN.  On Tuesday, November 24, Attorney General Brown appeared on KABC’s “Peter Tilden Show” after it was revealed that some 20,000 documents had been thrown into a National City dumpster by ACORN employees.

The documents were thrown out in advance of state investigators arriving at the local ACORN office to conduct an investigation resulting from national media attention.  ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera was videotaped giving advice to two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute regarding underage prostitution and human smuggling.  Without admitting any wrongdoing ACORN terminated Mr. Vera, or so they said.  Documents provided to BigGovernment.com show that Mr. Vera was not terminated but was simply laid off, implying that Mr. Vera is also eligible for rehire. (The document also notes that Mr. Vera was laid off due to “restructuring” related to “videotaping incident.)

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Posted Nov 27th 2009 at 2:18 pm in ACORN, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 37658324 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/27/acorn-document-dump-trashed-documents-are-relevant-to-investigation/ACORN+Document+Dump%3A+Trashed+Documents+Are+Relevant+to+Investigation2009-11-27+21%3A18%3A34Publius

Calif. Attorney General Offers Incoherent, Troubling Answers When Asked About ACORN Doc Dump

On Tuesday November 24th, the day after Big Government broke the story revealing tens of thousands of documents containing sensitive material had been unceremoniously dumped in a trash bin behind the San Diego ACORN office, Attorney General Jerry Brown appeared on Talk Radio KABC’s Peter Tilden Show.

Instead, Attorney General Brown offered a rambling and somewhat troubling political answer to a question of law and justice.

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Attorney General Brown cites a poll which claims that 52% of Republicans think ACORN stole the election for Obama.  The full results of this poll of 1,006 voters can be downloaded here.

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Tags: ACORN, Derrick Roach, Document Dump, Jerry Brown, KABC
Posted Nov 27th 2009 at 11:06 am in ACORN, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 37458358 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/sright/2009/11/27/calif-attorney-general-offers-incoherent-troubling-answers-when-asked-about-acorn-doc-dump/Calif.+Attorney+General+Offers+Incoherent%2C+Troubling+Answers+When+Asked+About+ACORN+Doc+Dump2009-11-27+18%3A06%3A52Larry++O%26%2339%3BConnor

What Happens When a PI Dumpster Dives Behind a San Diego ACORN Office?

He strikes the flippin’ mother lode! At least that’s what happened to private investigator Derrick Roach at the National City (San Diego) ACORN office.  Yep, Roach scored big-time on the cockroaches of ACORN when he staked out their San Diego workplace.

According to señor Roach via BigGovernment.com, after the release of the San Diego ACORN sting videos—which my daughter Hannah, James O’Keefe, and Andrew Breitbart dropped on the Nation’s head—and following Governor Schwarzenegger’s call for a probe into this batty zoo, Roach took it upon himself to get busy and see if he could ferret out more funky filth from this nefarious gang.

And, as stated, Roach scored more than Dwayne Wade would playing hoops against blind five-year-old, one-legged narcoleptic midgets.

What did Papa Roach come across?  Well, my children, it was stuff like …

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Posted Nov 26th 2009 at 2:09 pm in ACORN, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 3740694 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dgiles/2009/11/26/what-happens-when-a-pi-dumpster-dives-behind-a-san-diego-acorn-office/What+Happens+When+a+PI+Dumpster+Dives+Behind+a+San+Diego+ACORN+Office%3F2009-11-26+21%3A09%3A24Doug+Giles

California ACORN Responds to Revelation of Massive Doc Dump, Data Breach at Its San Diego Office

From NBClosangeles.com:

When reached for comment, Amy Schur of ACORN’s state office, explained why the paperwork was in the trash.

“In early October, when our San Diego staff were doing an office clean-up in preparation for a major 10-station phone bank program being set up in our offices, it appears that included in the piles of garbage being thrown out may have been some documents containing private information,” Schur wrote in an e-mail to NBCSanDiego. “To the individuals whose paperwork was pulled out of the dumpster by this guy Derrick Roach – unsuccessful Republican candidate for State Rep in San Diego – we truly apologize. We will seek return of this information so that we may give proper notice of the compromising of the information as required by law.”

When asked about ACORN’s policy for disposing of sensitive documents, Schur said, “It is ACORN’s policy to shred documents with personal information at the point when they no longer need to be retained.” (more…)

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Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 4:50 pm in ACORN | 35846113 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/23/california-acorn-spokesman-responds-to-revelation-of-massive-doc-dump-and-data-breach/California+ACORN+Responds+to+Revelation+of+Massive+Doc+Dump%2C+Data+Breach+at+Its+San+Diego+Office2009-11-23+23%3A50%3A42Publius

ACORN Scandal, Part 2: The Evidentiary Phase

The last two months of the growing ACORN scandal have focused on the damning videos shot by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles.

In seven out of eight offices, ACORN employees attempted to aid and abet O’Keefe and Giles’ illicit “scheme” to establish a brothel for underage illegal-immigrant prostitutes from Central America. .

That phase has been tabled for a future date, as I forthrightly stated last Thursday evening to Attorney General Eric Holder on FOX NEWS’ Hannity show.

The next phase will be the evidentiary phase.  Starting with, but not limited to an extraordinary document dump at the San Diego office that was one of the offices  O’Keefe and Giles exposed, causing the firing of a single employee.

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Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 12:14 pm in ACORN, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, Media Criticism, News, Politics, State Politics | 35602194 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2009/11/23/acorn-scandal-part-2-the-evidentiary-phase/ACORN+Scandal%2C+Part+2%3A+The+Evidentiary+Phase2009-11-23+19%3A14%3A31Andrew+Breitbart

Calif. Attorney General Brown Will Face Independent Investigation for Secretly Recorded Conversations

A letter from California Attorney General Jerry Brown has surfaced that deals a tremendous blow to sham internal investigations everywhere.  Brown, also a California gubernatorial candidate, has requested the Alameda County district attorney look into secret tapings his office conducted with five different news reporters on six different occasions.  California is what’s known as a “two-party state,” that is, it is illegal to record someone without their consent.  Brown’s former communication director recorded the conversations and has since resigned; still the Attorney General’s office has asserted secretly recording news reporters is legal if it is for public use.

Brown’s office announced an internal investigation into the matter and was roundly condemned by the right for undertaking a case in which it has a vested interest.

Brown’s position on the recordings strikes the Big Government editorial panel as arrogant.  First, the Attorney General is in the process of investigating the ACORN filmmakers for violating laws about secret tape-recordings while conducting similar recordings himself… repeatedly.  Second, Brown conducted an internal investigation on himself (much like John Podesta of Media Matters and Andy Stern of the SEIU conducting the internal investigation of ACORN) for nearly three weeks before he solicited a third party.  And judging by the wording in the attached letter, Brown seems none too happy to pass that duty elsewhere.

Much like the internal investigations movement, Brown might be hurting right now.  Stay tuned…

A complete article on the controversy here.  Read the letter below:

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, Alameda Country, Andy Stern, California
Posted Nov 17th 2009 at 2:14 am in ACORN, Justice/Legal, Politics | 3213816 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/17/calif-d-a-brown-will-face-independent-investigation-for-secretly-recorded-conversations/Calif.+Attorney+General+Brown+Will+Face+Independent+Investigation+for+Secretly+Recorded+Conversations2009-11-17+09%3A14%3A58Publius

ACORN: The LA Story, Part I

Today I received a phone call from my friend, Gary H., who said that ACORN was staging a protest outside the Fox News studios in West Los Angeles. I called someone at the Fox News bureau to find out that there were no protesters there, but quickly realized ACORN had gotten that wrong too. They were protesting in front of FOX Television Center, the home of local affiliate KTTV.

Since I woke up to the news that ACORN had sued the U.S. government to get its federal funding back, it struck me as obvious that ACORN is in the process of trying to get its mojo back absent any real investigations by the Holder Justice Department, the Democratic-controlled Congress, and the Jerry Brown sham investigation in California – not to mention the  so-called “internal investigation” whose chief investigator was picked by number one ACORN defender, John Podesta, and SEIU head Andy Stern, whose union is deeply aligned with the troubled “community organizing” group.

Despite all the evidence we have published that exposes ACORN as both corrupt and criminal, no other mainstream media organization has shown any signs of investigating ACORN despite countless angles and document trails.  So I knew I had to go down to the protest on Bundy Drive to ask ACORN protesters a few questions.

With very little time I got in the car with Big Government Associate Editor Alex Marlow to meet Gary H. down at the protest. When we arrived, the protesters were fifty or so strong, monitored by a few police units standing to the side. Given that the police made me feel safe, I walked straight toward the chanting protesters while accepting an ACORN full-color single page handout entitled, “ACORN MEMBERS — MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN  THEIR COMMUNITIES,” which sung the praises of the organization. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN internal investigation, Alex Marlow, Andrew Breitbart, Andy Stern
Posted Nov 12th 2009 at 7:17 pm in ACORN, Featured Story | 30082178 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2009/11/12/acorn-the-la-story-part-i/ACORN%3A+The+LA+Story%2C+Part+I2009-11-13+02%3A17%3A41Andrew+Breitbart

Jerry Brown: Acorn, Suspicion and the Rule of Law

According to the legendary Greek Historian Plutarch, when asked why he divorced his wife, Caesar stated that:  “All women shall be as Caesar would have his wife, not only free from sin, but from suspicion.”  At the time, Caesar’s wife, Pompeia, was loosely associated with the commission of a sacrilege by someone else.  As recent events have confirmed, Attorney General Jerry Brown is hardly burdened by suspicions – let alone high ethical standards.

As most everyone in the political world now knows, ACORN is under investigation in many states, and by the federal government, for a host of crimes.  The same holds true in California – or does it?

Notwithstanding the purported investigation of ACORN by the California Attorney General’s Office, according to David Lagstein, ACORN’s chief organizer in the San Diego:  the Attorney General Jerry Brown is a “political animal” and that “certainly every bit of communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video — not with ACORN.”

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Posted Nov 11th 2009 at 11:17 am in Uncategorized | 2891071 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2009/11/11/jerry-brown-acorn-suspicion-and-the-rule-of-law/Jerry+Brown%3A+Acorn%2C+Suspicion+and+the+Rule+of+Law2009-11-11+18%3A17%3A35Thomas+Del+Beccaro

Exclusive: Audio From ACORN Claims Jerry Brown Will Whitewash Investigation

On October 15th, local ACORN spokesman David Lagstein was the special guest of the East County Democrat Club in El Cajon, CA. Lagstein is ACORN’s chief organizer in the San Diego area. The meeting was held at Coco’s Restaurant, a very public venue. Because of ACORN’s close ties to the Democrat party, Mr. Lagstein clearly felt he was among friends. These two clips suggest  the investigation of ACORN announced by California Attorney General Jerry Brown already has a pre-determined outcome.

First Clip: Attorney’s General Office Visits ACORN

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Lagstein notes that the Attorney General is a “political animal.” He states that he has been in communication with Brown’s office and assures the crowd that “the fault WILL be found with the people that did the video — not ACORN.”

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Posted Nov 10th 2009 at 2:51 pm in ACORN, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 28610259 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/11/10/exclusive-audio-from-acorn-claims-jerry-brown-will-whitewash-investigation/Exclusive%3A+Audio+From+ACORN+Claims+Jerry+Brown+Will+Whitewash+Investigation2009-11-10+21%3A51%3A22Capitol++Confidential

Jerry Brown: Doing His Best to Kill Voter ID in California

Do you believe voter fraud is a serious issue in the United States today? 

I assure you Jerry Brown – the California Attorney General – does not.

Do the videos of ACORN exposed by BigGovernment.com concern you? How about facts like these:

In Washington state’s disputed 2004 governor’s race, which was won by 129 votes, the election superintendent in Seattle testified in state court that ineligible felons had voted and votes had been cast in the name of the dead. In Milwaukee, Wis., investigators found that, in the state’s close 2004 presidential election, more than 200 felons voted illegally and more than 100 people voted twice. In Florida, where the entire 2000 presidential election was decided by 547 votes, almost 65,000 dead people are still listed on the voter rolls–an engraved invitation to fraud. A New York Daily News investigation in 2006 found that between 400 and 1,000 voters registered in Florida and New York City had voted twice in at least one recent election.

Does voter fraud  like that concern you?

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Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 7:03 am in Justice/Legal, Politics, State Politics, Uncategorized | 2436262 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2009/11/03/jerry-brown-doing-his-best-to-kill-voter-id-in-california/Jerry+Brown%3A+Doing+His+Best+to+Kill+Voter+ID+in+California2009-11-03+14%3A03%3A58Thomas+Del+Beccaro

Calbuzz: Jerry Brown Must Fire Flack Who Secretly Taped Reporters

From the Calbuzz Blog:

The stunning news that a spokesman for Attorney General Jerry Brown secretly taped a conversation with SF Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci, admitting that this something he did routinely, leaves Brown with one and only option: fire the flack immediately.

The paper reported Friday that Brown press spokesman Scott Gerber acknowledged taping the call, apparently in direct violation of California Penal Code Section 632, which says that conversations may not be taped without notice to all parties.

Dick Nixon must be rolling over in his grave.

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Posted Oct 31st 2009 at 12:02 pm in ACORN, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics, State Politics | 2343428 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/10/31/calbuzz-jerry-brown-must-fire-flack-who-secretly-taped-reporters/Calbuzz%3A+Jerry+Brown+Must+Fire+Flack+Who+Secretly+Taped+Reporters2009-10-31+19%3A02%3A29Publius

A Name Americans Should Know – Jodie Evans and the Obama-Hollywood-Terrorist Connection

How much access can a possible agent of influence for state sponsors of terrorism buy from President Barack Obama? For Jodie Evans, a progressive Hollywood activist, the going rate appears to be $30,400 for dinner and a conversation.

Last week in San Francisco, Obama headlined a three million dollar fundraiser at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. The San Francisco Chronicle reports about 160 people paid $30,400 or more per couple for a private dinner with Obama followed by a reception costing $500 to $1000 that drew over 900 attendees. Among those at the dinner was the leftist, so-called antiwar group Code Pink co-founder, Jodie Evans.

The Chronicle reports Jodie Evans had a several minutes long conversation with Obama at the fundraiser.

Why does Jodie Evans merit such face time with the president even though she acts as an agent of influence for the anti-American governments of Iran, Cuba and Venezuela, as well as Middle Eastern terrorists?

Over the life of the campaign, Jodie Evans became one of Obama’s top donors, giving the maximum $2300 to his respective primary and general election funds and tens of thousands of dollars more to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint Obama-Democratic National Committee fund.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer, Code Pink, Democrat National Committee, Fidel Castro
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 4:15 pm in Culture, Defense, Featured Story, Obama, Politics | 20358177 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/A+Name+Americans+Should+Know+-+Jodie+Evans+and+the+Obama-Hollywood-Terrorist+Connection2009-10-23+23%3A15%3A33Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

It’s On! California To Investigate ACORN. And O’Keefe?

From the Sacramento Bee:

Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office has opened an investigation into the controversy surrounding videos that purportedly show members of community organizing group ACORN giving advice on how to open a brothel.

In a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dated Sept. 25, Chief Deputy Attorney General James M. Humes said the office has “opened an investigation of both ACORN and the circumstances under which ACORN employees were videotaped.” The governor had asked Brown two weeks ago to look into the incidents.

The probe was sparked by a series of hidden-camera videos in which a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute are advised on how to set up a prostitution business by people identified as workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The videos were taken in Washington D.C., San Diego, San Bernardino and cities in several other states.

Members of the organization are also under investigation in other states for alleged irregularities in registering voters.

Schwarzenegger issued a statement praising Brown’s decision to investigate. “I am outraged and deeply concerned by these allegations,” the statement said. “If these reports are true, they warrant prosecution under the fullest extent of the law.”

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN Investigation, Arnold schwarzenegger, CA Attorney General, Hannah Giles
Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 1:08 pm in ACORN, Politics, State Politics | 1119078 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/10/01/its-on-california-to-investigate-acorn/It%27s+On%21+California+To+Investigate+ACORN.+And+O%27Keefe%3F2009-10-01+20%3A08%3A27Publius