Posted on 10/04/2010 6:12:05 PM PDT by jazusamo
In an election year, this is the time for an "October surprise"-- some sensational, and usually irrelevant, revelation to distract the voters from serious issues. This year, there are October surprises from coast to coast. There are a lot of incumbents who don't want to discuss serious issues-- especially their own track records.
This year's October surprise that is getting the biggest play in the media is the revelation that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman once employed a housekeeper-- at $23 an hour -- who turned out to be an illegal immigrant. It is great political theater, with activist lawyer Gloria Allred putting her arm protectively around the unhappy-looking woman.
But why anyone should be unhappy at getting $23 an hour for housekeeping is by no means clear. Maybe she is unhappy because Meg Whitman fired her when she learned that her housekeeper was an illegal immigrant, despite false documents that indicated she was legal when she was hired.
What is Meg Whitman supposed to be guilty of? Not being able to tell false documents from real ones? Is that what voters are supposed to use to determine who to vote for as governor of California? A far more important question is whether voters can tell false issues from real ones.
October surprises are especially phony when they are used on behalf of someone with a long track record in government, like Jerry Brown, who has held government jobs ranging from state attorney general to mayor of Oakland to governor of the state.
What did Jerry Brown do the last time he was governor? That ought to tell us a lot more than whether Meg Whitman is a document expert. She is not running for a job as a document expert.
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There is nothing on a SS card to even remotely suggest that it is a secure document, any color printer and card stock, you can have any SS # you want.
Why not ask "why should illegal aliens be taking jobs from Americans"????
Is a $23-an-hour job a "jobs that Americans won't do"????????
The next time ANY candidate intones “That’s not what this election is about...” the response should be “The voters decide what the election is about, not you.”
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I don’t know man to clean houses you’d have to give me at least 14 bucks an hour .... wait a minute
Yeah; for $23 an hour, housekeeping don't sound too bad to me...
Absolutely right.
He writes as clear as a bell and cuts to the heart of the real issues.
Jerry Brown. “I’ll take that under advisement” was his most often stated response to any discussion of important issues of the day, and then nothing ever got done about anything.
I remember the first PCV system we had in California was some buddy of Jerry Brown’s, and we all had to pay $45.00 to have the thing installed on our cars, and pick em up trucks. Yeah, that was real pollution control.
He lived in an apartment to show his disdain for the elite, and allegedly was saving the State money by NOT living in the Governor’s mansion. Of course the grounds crews, and the normal maintenance functions all went on at the mansion paid for by the State. Plus the apartment, and the costs for the apartment above, and below for the security IIRC.
I can’t remember all the stupid that was Jerry Brown, but I remember there was one Hell of a lot of it.
Thanks for the ping jaz.
Yep, I remember that well, it was a real rip off and didn't accomplished a damned thing except fleece the people of CA.
I also remember some of his close friends and they really ticked me off:
There couldn’t be a better reason to not reelect Moonbeam Brown as Guv that that pic!!!
thanks jaz, Dr Sowell has been on fire lately...has it been long enuff for ole jerry brown to bury his record ???
I sure hope not because he was a disaster then and will be again.
>> They need a distraction from his record.
Similar problem for O’Donnell.
The rats are perpetually stuck on stupid. Whitman needs to bring up this Med Fly fiasco. This was national news.
"At one time, Governor Jerry Brown was riding high in the Democratic Party, and was considered a rising prospect for that party's nomination for President of the United States. Then something happened that told us all what kind of man he was.
"There was an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies out in California's agricultural heartland in the interior valleys. Despite being urged to allow spraying of insecticide out in the valleys, to nip the infestation in the bud, Governor Brown pandered to the environmental extremists and refused.
"The net result was that the "Med flies," as they were called, spread from the valleys out into cities and towns as far west as the San Francisco Bay Area. Faced with a major political disaster, Jerry Brown finally authorized spraying-- over a vastly larger area than when he was first asked. That fiasco spared us a Jerry Brown administration in Washington."
I agree, that Med Fly incident should disqualify Brown from ever serving in any public office ever. He is a moonbat for sure.
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