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To: jiggyboy
"Willie Brown is a practical-thinking establishment liberal here in SF, not one of the crazies like Barbara Lee, a nanny-state fascist like Pelosi"

ROFLMAO

I suppose like wine one mellows with age, but the Willie I remember as Speaker of the California Assembly for all those years ( 1980 -1995?? ) was in fact the underwriter and author of the destruction of California.

Back then, he made Pelosi and Boxer look ultra conservative.

Which goes to the point we agree with . . . if Willie is saying little boy wonder has lost his mojo . . . things are not looking well for the communists

11 posted on 05/26/2012 9:38:25 PM PDT by saywhatagain
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To: saywhatagain
...as Speaker of the California Assembly for all those years ( 1980 -1995?? ) was in fact the underwriter and author of the destruction of California.

To the partial benefit of Texas, Willie's home state. Hmmmmm.....

But as to the article, nowadays, Willie gains nothing by asskissing the local liberal establishment, he knowsit and they know it, so his observation is sobering for libs in the S.F. Bay Area.

12 posted on 05/26/2012 9:51:41 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: saywhatagain

I got transferred to Bakersfield, CA in 1986. Was sitting in hotel room first night there and Willie Brown came on TV. He said something along the lines of, Bakersfield was so conservative when he flies over it, he wears a flak vest and helmet.

I thought, hey, maybe Bakersfield is not going to be so bad.


15 posted on 05/26/2012 10:37:56 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (I'll be a nice to you as you'll let me be, or as mean as you make me be.)
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To: saywhatagain

Obama keeps trying to be greatly and strikingly lefty, but only succeeds in looking like a klutz. This doubtless underwhelms Willie.


22 posted on 05/26/2012 11:44:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou ... ???)
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To: saywhatagain

Back in the 1970s, my Dad was a regional distributor for a large fireworks company in CA. Every so often the dems in the state Assembly would attempt to ban everything including sparklers state-wide. Dad would attend some of those Assembly meetings to get a look at who the antagonists were. At the forefront of that ban-everything effort was Willie Brown, who`d rail on about “people not needin` no fireworks.”

Not necessarily a big deal to most people except during the 4th of July, but for those whose livelihoods depended on that industry, it mattered greatly.


25 posted on 05/27/2012 3:18:48 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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